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Cornell still has classes just like the ones you cited, but they are atypical.

I'm not sure why you chose to post this long quote as part of your reply.

To preclude As for Bush's quote, well maybe that's true and inform you of the certainty of that quote.

I'm not sure why you bothered to reply or even post on F.R. since you are either biased toward a liberal perspective, or don't think there is much difference between conservative and liberal perspectives.

Amazing that you visited Cornell and never smelled a RAT.

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.

Politicized Observances Mark Anniversary of Terror Attacks

Cornell University's 9/11 anniversary gathering focused attention away from the 3,000 dead Americans and our troops in Afghanistan to such topics as "multiculturalism" and Japanese internment camps during World War II. University President Hunter Rawlings held a September 11 ceremony resembling an anti-war protest.

Reverend Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work, professed to Cornellians that they must look at the terrorist attacks "through the eyes of other nations." He also accused America of exploiting the rest of the world through "colonialism and imperialism."

The Cornell Sun Daily, the main student newspaper on campus, published an editorial on the anniversary focused on racial discrimination and Japanese internment camps. "Sept. 11 has made Americans more fearful about the future and more paranoid about the day to day. It has forced Americans to accept a rhetoric of good and evil, and numerous members of ethnic groups have suffered discrimination because of it," read the editorial. "Sept. 11 may be the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor but that does not mean, for instance, that the country should reflexively resort to measures as un-American as the Japanese internment camps."

College Classrooms Awash in Political Bias and Outrageous Topics ...

Cornell University's sociology course, "Segregation," teaches students that "very little has changed" over the last seven decades as far as racial segregation is concerned.

Top 10 Politically Correct of '98-'99

1. NAMBLA in the Classroom Cornell University lashed out at Accuracy in Academia for criticizing "The Sexual Child," a course the school offered its undergraduates which required pro-pedophilia readings and the viewing of pictures of naked children. One assigned essay complains, "Like communists and homosexuals in the 1950s, boy lovers are so stigmatized that it is difficult to find defenders for their civil liberties, let alone erotic orientation." According to the author, opposition to "cross-generational encounters" has "more in common with ideologies of racism than with true ethics." Cornell Professor Ellis Hanson, the instructor of "The Sexual Child," told Accuracy in Academia that "the erotic fascination with children is ubiquitous…. One can hardly read a newspaper or turn on a television without feeling obliged to accept, study, and celebrate it." The aim of his course, he states, is to "undermine preconceived notions about what a child is, what sexuality is, and what it means to love or desire a child." Among the screeds assigned to students in the class are "How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay," "Policing ‘Perversions,’" "The Hysteria of Child Pornography and Pedophilia," and "Child-Loving."

On the Outside Looking in: Paul Johnson's America

Recent examinations of the political affiliations of college professors, too, demonstrate an extreme bias among historians. Stanford’s department of history houses 22 Democrats and two Republicans. Cornell has 29 Democrats and zero Republicans.

The Dirty Dozen: America's Most Ridiculous Courses

Cornell University Democratizing Society: Participation, Action, and Research — This course poses an alternative to distanced, "objectivist" social science by reviewing some of the many numerous approaches to socially engaged research. Among the approaches discussed are those centering on the pedagogy of liberation, feminism, the industrial democracy movement, and "Southern" participatory action research, action science, and participatory evaluation.

MLA Features Bizarre Panels, Calls for Campus Censorship
Sodomy 101

The growing role of "queer studies" was evident by the MLA's 20-plus sessions to the subject. Most panels followed a similar routine of openly gay professors talking about sex acts and gay activism.

Among the most flamboyant of the programs were the three sessions of the "Perpetual States of Sodomy" trilogy, focusing on the history of sodomy. Nicholas Radel of Furman University, and James Douglas Penney and Robert Odom, both of Cornell, graphically described acts of sodomy committed during the Middle Ages.

Amazing that you visited Cornell and never smelled a RAT.

I guess you have some difficulty with the English language. I wrote on this thread:

There are lots of things not to like, as far as I am concerned, but your post paints a very distorted picture.
Maybe they gave a course like this. I know I laughed at some of the courses given this spring as I looked over the catalogue ...

"There are lots of things not to like." What do you think I meant by this?

And why might you think that I laughed at some of the courses?

I'm not sure that you have ever had any association with Cornell. I have. You can reprodce listings of lots of silly courses because they do give them. But you need to look up and understand the meaning of atypical. Your posts present a very distorted picture and put me in the uncomfortable postion of defending this very left wing univerity.

You might recall that Ann Coulter went there and survived.

ML/NJ