[Behind Liberal Lines]

Interestingly enough, the newspaper also printed an editorial editorial on this topic that takes Ithaca College, in part, to task for its lack of balance.

Of course, being the media, in Ithaca, they base their call for balance in part on the theory that if conservatives aren't allowed to spaek, "they are more likely to vent on the bathroom walls or with a stupid prank," and suggest its good to expose students to conservative ideas to demonstrate how "offensive" they are.

They also feel compelled to make a snide comment or two about how conservatives "apparently are not content to dominate the government."

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump

[freedomlover]

Next up: water is wet.

[nickcarraway]

Dog Bites Man!

[annyokie]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

My favorite line is from the Chair of the Republican-less Politics Department:

"Our department is home to individuals who represent a broad range of what one may term progressive views, even though we express them in singularly distinctive ways," Barlas says."

Do you think she understands that she is putting forth as a serious argument what we would use as a joke: "we have lots of diversity running all the way from liberal to Marxist!"

[Andyman]

Asma Barlas chairs the Politics Department . . . argued that Republicans are trying to "stamp out diversity in the name of diversity."

Sounds like she is a bigot. She obviously believes that only white males are conservative. The thought that there might be some female black conservatives out there willing to teach must seem out of reach for her. Remember, Asma, diversity of thought is just another kind of diversity. Diversity of skin color means nothing if everyone thinks the same way.

[cinFLA]

"All three professors of my classes said that there is a conservative bias."

They are merely speaking the truth as they see it. Anything right of marxism is a "conservative bias."

[theDentist]

I'm shocked. Shocked.

[A_perfect_lady]

Ithaca College plagued with liberal bias

I have never seen such an understatement in my life. This ranks up there with remarks like "Tariq Aziz has not been very forthcoming" and "Clinton was occasionally flirtatious." Not to mention the Powell habit of referring to French duplicity as "not helpful."

[Egregious Philbin]

So what's the remedy? "We have a vacancy in the English department for a registered Republican"?

[MineralMan]

Is Ithaca College a public or private institution?

[NathanR]

"It does not hire based on political affiliations or political viewpoints."

Actually likely a true statement. But, that is because in the English Department, anyone interested in Truth and Beauty would have been weeded out in the vetting process going back to graduate school or earlier.

There are only so many facts about Chaucer or Shakespeare, but they need to keep pumping out those dissertations. Therefore they came out with ways of manufacturing facts (deconstruction) and left truth in the dust of postmodernism.

Truth is Conservative, therefore there are very few conservatives in the English Department.

[Scothia]

Part of mandated Ithaca College faculty dress code

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Katya]

Loved this quote
"I think a lot of people would be conservative because it is a pretty wealthy campus."

No son, their wealth is what makes them left wing...they feel guilty for living off of their parents money.

[lurky]

how come no one complains about Pepperdine or BYU? These are private schools