Educator Unearths 'Systematic Discrimination' Against Campus Christian Groups

An ongoing investigation has revealed that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has engaged in systematic discrimination against Christian student groups.

After UNC's student organization office threatened to strip InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of university funding, Dr. Mike Adams discovered other Christian groups were receiving similar treatment. When confronted with a public records request from Adams, the university disclosed 17 letters it had sent to student organizations.

Adams, an associate professor of criminal justice at UNC-Wilmington, says there was a common theme in the correspondence.

"Very clearly you can see that, in fact, they have not been focusing on secular fraternities and things of that nature," Adams says. "It appears that these letters are targeted toward Christian groups, and essentially telling them the same thing -- namely, that they can continue to be a group as long as they are willing to cease to be Christian."

According to Adams, college administrators across the country are routinely telling Christian student groups they must abandon their core beliefs to accommodate others -- or be banned from campus. He says such threats are intimidating to young college students and epitomize the anti-Christian bias on university campuses.

"I've been learning [about] that more and more as I go on through the years, and it seems to be getting worse and worse as we Christians are basically sitting back and not doing anything about it," he says. "There is this animus against Christian groups that is growing -- and it's a very dangerous trend."

The educator says university administrators must realize the "diversity" policies written in their handbooks do not circumvent the requirements of the First Amendment. Toward that end, Adams and attorney Charlton Allen have made a broader appeal to UNC officials for information pertaining to the school's "diversity mission" and its behavior toward Christian groups over the past ten years.

Poll confirms Ivy League liberal tilt More than 80 percent of Ivy League professors who voted in 2000 picked Democrat Al Gore and just 9 percent voted for Republican George W. Bush, according to a new survey.

The poll by Luntz Research Companies also found that only 3 percent of the professors describe themselves as Republicans and that Bill Clinton was the Ivy League faculty's pick for best president of the past 40 years.

Forty percent of the professors support slavery reparations for blacks, compared with 11 percent of the general public.

American Flag Banned on Campuses Across the Nation

CBN News - Intolerant Tolerance: Anti-Christian Bigotry on Campus But English says the most ironic thing of all is that DePauw University is a Methodist school. "And it's sad that a Methodist university has gone so far down the politically correct spectrum that you can't even express your Christianity at a Methodist school."

National Alliance Against Christian Discrimination "The expenses of the paperwork and court fees involved in pursuing the appeal through the courts were not too high. In fact, as I recall, removing prayer from U.S. public schools cost less than $20,000…no Christian organization filed a brief in support of our opponents (Baltimore Board of Education)." (Bill Murray. Son of Madalyn Murray O'Hair. My Life Without God . 1982.)

America's Most Ridiculous College CoursesFrom pornography to rap music, course content in many classes during the 2001-2002 academic year seems devoid of any educational value. Some classes mandate activism. Others indoctrinate students into trendy ideologies. Still others waste time studying frivolous matters. Accuracy in Academia lists some of the worst college courses, and their descriptions:

Bizarre Classes Proliferate on America's 'Elite' CampusesMarxism, environmentalism, homosexuality, multiculturalism, and feminism now dominate the curricula of many elite colleges and universities. Critics contend that these areas of study are often intellectually vacuous, politically-charged, or both.

Pedophilia 101 at Cornell Students at Cornell University are used to courses like "Spike Lee Films," "Concepts of Race and Racism," "Whose Families? Whose Values?," "Domestic Television," "Music and Queer Identity," and "Introduction to Sexual Minorities."

Indeed, as Campus Report has chronicled, even the most cursory perusal of the Ithaca, New York school's course catalog reveals a burgeoning curriculum of frivolous, politically-charged, and downright bizarre classes. The university's administration, engaged in an indefatigable crusade for "diversity," has given free reign to the faculty to incorporate its every radical whim and every extreme agenda into the classroom. The results have been striking. There are courses at Cornell that artfully breach every imaginable-and many unimaginable-standard of most students.

One recent offering, however, has crossed the threshold from the merely absurd to the potentially dangerous.

The syllabus for "The Sexual Child" reads like a veritable who's-who of pro-pedophilia academics and activists. Among the authors presented in the course are Theo Sandfort, formerly on the board of directors of Paidika, a pro-pedophilia magazine based in Amsterdam; Daniel Tsang, the author of AIDS Taboo, purports to deliver an "academic" analysis of pedophilia; Pat Califia, a self-proclaimed "sexual outlaw" and author of the essay "The Age of Consent: The Great Kiddy-Porn Panic of '77" and the book Macho Sluts; and Havelock Ellis, author of "The School Friendships of Girls" and a reputed eugenicist.

Frivolous Courses Pervasive at Top American Colleges Despite the failure of Karl Marx's economic theories, courses devoted to him curiously abound in literature, sociology, anthropology and a host of other areas that Marx paid very little attention to while he was alive. A sampling of courses that students can choose from include Amherst's "Taking Marx Seriously," Duke's "Marxism and Society," UC-Santa Barbara's "Black Marxism," Rutgers's "Marxist Literary Theory," and Wisconsin's "Marxism and the Black Experience." Marx's theories may be dead in Eastern Europe, but they are alive and well on American college campuses.

Terrorists Find Allies on Campus "Anyone who would blow up the Pentagon would get my vote," declared University of New Mexico Professor Richard Berthold. San Francisco State student Roberto Ochoa opined, "we should be asking what we did to deserve this." A University of Colorado student maintained, "we had it coming."

Marine Shouted Down at UNLV A Marine recruiter seeking to sign-up law students for the judge advocate general program was shouted down by a group of faculty and administrators at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. The Marine was forced to cease his presentation to students interested in the program after anti-military faculty and administrators turned up the volume on a video promoting gays in the military and began speaking over his presentation.

"We have a group of people over there that really hate the military," UNLV Regent Tom Kirkland remarked about his school. If UNLV faculty and administrators continue to block military recruiters from talking with students, Kirkland suggests firing those who inhibit the ability of recruiters from the armed forces to speak freely and meet with students.

PC's Marxist Root's Unearthed Political Correctness is intellectual AIDS. Everything it touches it sickens and eventually kills. On America's college campuses it has diminished freedom of speech, warped curricula, politicized grading and replaced intellectual integrity with vapid sloganeering. In classroom after classroom, professors offer an ideological rant, which students are compelled to regurgitate to get a grade: the vomit returns to the dog. These places-and they are many-are no longer universities, but small, ivy-covered North Koreas.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Inc. FIRE is a ... In practice, however, many American colleges and universities-public and private-have permitted or even encouraged the erosion of religious liberty. This erosion involves considerable efforts to curtail religious liberty and, at times, to regulate or to ban outright the activities of religious students and student groups. For all of their talk about diversity and tolerance, university administrators too often work to silence the views that religious students bring-on matters of public debate-to the marketplace of ideas, above all on appropriately controversial issues of sex and sexuality. Where the nation needs intellectual pluralism and debate, too many campuses seek a coerced uniformity of expressed views.

Book Review: Why the Left Hates America With many on the Left holding positions of great influence, such as college professors, as Flynn points out, it is more important than ever to stress accuracy in studying historic and current events.

Who Will Defend American Values? Eighty-four percent of college students today do not believe that Western culture is superior to Arab culture according to a newly released poll funded by Americans for Victory Over Terrorism (a project by Empower.org) and former Secretary of Education William Bennett.

Considered by Empower America to be "the single most extensive survey of college students' attitudes about terrorism, the Middle East and the Bush administration this year," the poll reveals that high percentages of college students quite simply lack any pride in their country.

According to the poll, 70 percent of American college students would not serve in the armed forces if sent abroad, while 48 percent openly declared that they would evade a draft.

Rather than holding terrorists solely responsible for their actions on September 11, college students partially blamed the U.S. government for the attacks, as 57 percent of college students stated that United States policies are "at least somewhat responsible for the September 11th terrorist attacks."

New Study Reveals Extreme Partisan Bias Among Faculty Liberals outnumber conservatives 18 to one at Brown University. At Cornell University, the number is even higher, with liberals outnumbering conservatives more than 26 times. Penn State displayed a bit more balance, with the ratio of liberals to conservatives being six to one. Even the smallest disparity, at the University of Houston, had a ratio of three liberals to one conservative.

Of the 166 professors examined at Cornell University, only six were conservatives, with no conservatives at all in the fields of history and sociology. There were likewise no conservatives in these fields at Brown University.

Some of the largest disparities were found in the University of California system. UCLA, for instance, has only nine conservatives for 141 liberals. UC-Santa Barbara had only one conservative professor in the 73 examined. At the four UC schools surveyed, there were only five conservative political science professors compared to 90 liberals.

At UC-Berkeley, only seven of the 66 professors noted were conservatives, with none in the department of sociology. "It's not surprising to a lot of the more conservative students on campus because you often find classes where it seems very apparent," the editor-in-chief of Berkeley's student newspaper The California Patriot, James Gallagher, told Campus Report. "The problem is, a professor has the right to be in any party, ideology they want to be. But when they let ideology come over into their teaching that's when we have a problem.... Because there is such a bias, because there are so many professors who do identify with more of the Left that you have a lot of professors out there who let their ideology interfere with how they teach a class. That's not really learning, that's not really seeking any truth."

Extreme liberal bias was found even in states generally thought to be conservative, such as Colorado.

Conservative states and liberal states

Ranking of states, most conservative to least conservative, based on Senate voting records:

1	97	Oklahoma
2	94	Idaho
3	94	Texas
4	92	Kentucky
5	92	Kansas
6	91	Arizona
7	90	Wyoming
8	89	Utah
9	87	Tennessee
10	87	Virginia
11	87	Mississippi
12	86	Alabama
13	86	New Hampshire
14	80	Ohio
15	78	Alaska
16	74	Colorado

Ranking of states, most conservative to least conservative, based on House of Representatives voting records:

1	97	Wyoming
2	91	Idaho
3	85	New Hampshire
4	84	Kentucky
5	84	Montana
6	83	South Dakota
7	82	Oklahoma
8	81	Nebraska
9	77	Arizona
10	77	Kansas
11	76	Alaska
12	75	Alabama
13	75	Utah
14	70	Georgia
15	70	Louisiana
16	70	Virginia
17	68	South Carolina
18	67	Mississippi
19	66	Colorado

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