Liberal Smith College Dumps Only Conservative Prof.

http://www.smithsophian.com/news/435249.html ^

[NYC GOP Chick]

Yeah, there was some hazing when I was there (mid-80s), but nothing like *that*. That's just too far out of the realm of reality, especially in that many years ago when there were stricter rules about visitors to houses and off-campus trips.

[NonValueAdded]

So much for diversity enriching the campus experience of the Smith girls.

[NYC GOP Chick]

BFD. I was there for four years -- I'm also very bright and the daughter of a doctor. And I say that the story you were told is full of crap.

I knew someone at Smith who had transferred there from another school and gave a different story to different people about why she transferred -- everything from her previous school not having a good enough dance program to an alleged ex-boyfriend who beat and/or stalked her (details changed depending on to whom she told the story).

So, yes, just wimper and scamper away instead of dealing with reality. Maybe she discovered a taste for the sapphic life and that freaked out her parents who then yanked her home? Or maybe she couldn't handle living far from home?

[pogo101]

Well, it could be you're both right.

Smith College has no sororities, but like many "non-Greek" campuses, its students may form clubs, and some of those clubs may choose be secretive, selective, etc., e.g., Skull & Bones of Yale. Betty Friedan '42 (then Bettye N. Goldstein), as editor of Smith's student paper, wrote about the college's "secret societies."

Perhaps the lady to whom you refer was trying to get into a club like that, and simply refers to it as a "sorority" for the sake of convention.

[ex-Texan]

Wow . . . You really are torked off. For no reason. My report was true. I do not care what you think or your motivations or about your parents.

Also -- it was over 35 years ago. No ... it was 40 years ago. It was ages ago. You really need to get a life.

The girl I knew back in high school was not a lesbo. I was referring to the hundreds of obvious lesbos who were trolling the Smith campus back in 1986. I assume there are even more trolling the campus today.

[ex-Texan]

I think you are correct in your interpretation. In any event, she was horrified by the experience. She was ordered to get naked with a boy from Amherst. Pure and simple.

[NYC GOP Chick]

So, which sorority was it? And why were there no sorority houses before then, since then or at that time?

Face it, someone told you something other than the truth. Deal with it. How can you be so sure that what you were told is the truth, especially since it flies in the face of established FACTS?

[ex-Texan]

You are barking at the wrong tree NYC Chick.

Get a life.

[bourbon]

a taste for the sapphic life

very interesting phrase.
Anyone want to venture a guess as to what the sapphic life tastes like? ( Tuna? )
Perhaps we should ask Hillary? :-)

[VOA]

What hope does Academia have when folks like you stay silent?

Not much either way.
But I should explain that this has been a "slow boiling to kill the frog" phenomenon.

Twenty years ago, things were still sane in most of academia.
Now, even the very conservative university I did my graduate work at is basically
cluttered up with "speech codes".
The American Enterprise Institute did an article about this takeover by the lefties.
It's gone so far and the flakes are so entrenched...it would take dynamite and/or
lead to change it.

BUT...I suspect that American academia is similar to what has happened in the Catholic Church...
a cadre of libertines got trained in the Sixties and Seventies, got control...
and now slowly that group is retiring/dying and some of the new kids are actually
swinging back to more conservative values.

It's just a guess, but I suspect that the anti-war/anti-Dubya protests
might mark the last hurrah of this cadre...before they make their way to the rest home.

[bourbon]

It's stories like this that influenced my decision not to pursue a career in academia. (sigh).

[ex-Texan]

Naaaah ...

smells like fish and tastes like chicken

[friendly]

This is a grotesque violation of James D. Miller's civil rights. Where is the ACLU? (/sarcasm seriously off)

[dilpo]

Actually you have a point about this being a violation of his civil rights. I went to the college web site and found it's "diversity policy". Here it is:

Smith College does not discriminate in its educational and employment policies on the bases of race, color, creed, religion, national/ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, or with regard to the bases outlined in the Veterans Readjustment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Notice it includes "creed" here. Here is a definition of "creed":

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
creed noun [C] (ALSO credo) FORMAL
a set of beliefs which expresses a particular opinion and influences the way you live

So it looks to me like denying tenure due to one's political or social beliefs is discrimination on account of creed and it violates their own anti discrimination policy.

[Motorcycle Cowboy]

And another one bites the dust...

And they say we have censorship issues?!

[Doctor Raoul]

Rush Limbaugh is absolutely correct when he says,....

Liberals Hate
Diversity of Opinion

[friendly]

This absolutely is discrimination of the most extreme nature. Conservatives are ferociously blacklisted.

[NYC GOP Chick]

A bit touchy, aren't you? Oh, and the correct phrase is: Barking UP the wrong tree. :)

[NYC GOP Chick]

Well, I knew of some girls who were by all appearances hetero when they got there, but then experienced some heartbreaks (from the male gender) and decided that they wanted to be in a relationship (or at least just having nookie) more than anything, so they took to that. It was just a phase for most of them, and many quickly turned away from it.

And for whatever reason, the most violent lovers' spats were not male-female, but female-female. Lots of reports of broken glass, one shoving the other out a window, setting things on fire, and so on.

As for taste, the big joke was always...sushi, or carpeting ;)

[KC Burke]

I remember hearing a 90s phrase or acronym for this tendency...L.U.G.

It meant Lesbian Until Graduation...a way to avoid college guys with no serious intentions yet still have a "loving companion".