Liberal Smith College Dumps Only Conservative Prof.

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

[NYC GOP Chick]

In the mid-late 80s, it was known as "situational sexuality" or "flex sex" or "don't wanna go without sex." :)

[bourbon]

interesting. At my alma mater heartbroken females simply sat at home, cried a little, and ate ice cream. Going lesbo seems like a harsh reaction to a little dating disappointment. :-)

BTW, I like the new term to describe recovering lesbians like Anne Heche--"hasbians" (like has-beens). I suppose after you're a "LUG," you become a "hasbian."

[NYC GOP Chick]

Yes, I've been surprised at just how many LUGs I knew back then became hasbians. :) They were usually among the first batch to get married and start popping out the brats.

As for why some turn to LUGgish behavior, I have no idea and I thought it was very strange when explained to me -- something about being "needy for intimacy." {shudder}

Maybe they just don't want to sit home alone on Saturday nights? ;)

[bourbon]

It's probably a good thing that the gay/straight line is not as easily crossed for men. Imagine how many gay men there would be if every time a guy was "needy for intimacy" he went temporarily gay!

[NYC GOP Chick]

I shudder at the thought...

[Ligeia]

Jun 19, 2003

Lesson Learned

This space often has pointed out that higher education's devotion to diversity is only skin-deep: Schools want faculty and students to look different but think alike. Recently Smith College reinforced that lesson for an assistant professor who has been denied tenure - in apparent part because he leans to the right.

In the past couple of years James Miller has, in his words, come "out of the closet as a conservative" by writing for National Review Online. His views irked at least one faculty member who voted against Miller. Wrote she:

I would also refer the committee to a piece included in Jim's "Journalistic Articles" packet: the Guest Comment on NRO entitled "Campus Colors," in which Jim says, among other things, that "professors are mostly left-wing," that "the large number of non-U.S. citizens in American colleges necessarily makes these schools less patriotic," and that "practically the only way for a women's-studies professor to get a lifetime college appointment is for her to contribute to the literature on why America is racist, sexist, and homophobic." I find it extremely disturbingly [sic] that this could be Jim's image of academia.

A Smith senior endorses some of Miller's views when he says, "It's hard to point to a single professor besides Jim Miller [who] is an active conservative voice in the economics department." Evidently some on the tenure committee think that view is mistaken, and want to prove it by purging an uncloseted moderate. A grievance committee at the school agreed Miller had been wronged. Still, any other Smith faculty conservatives want to say there aren't enough faculty conservatives?

RTD Editorial

Campus Colors And how to change them.
By James D. Miller, assistant professor of economics, Smith College

[NotAFeminist]

I saw Jim tonight on O'Reilly and he was great. I graduated from Smith in 2000 and had Jim as a profesor and he was wonderful. I almost got kicked out Smith for "coming out" as a conservative republican so I wish him the best in his fight

[Ligeia]

I should be able to catch him on the rebroadcast tonight. Thank goodness for new media and their shining some light on the deplorable condition of our universities. Thanks!