Poll: What Colleges Are the Worst?

Free Republic Network/Ed Watch ^ | Dec. 21, 2001 | IronJack

[IronJack]

In an effort to plan our first Ed Watch campaign, I am looking for colleges and universities that are the worst offenders of traditional American values. They may be havens for Leftists, Marxists, or other cultural traitors. They may sponsor curricula that promote anti-Christian values, anti-familial activities, or racial dissent. They may waste taxpayer money or advance a trivial or useless agenda. Whatever the case, they are institutions of liar learning that need to be "outed."

FReepers: Who are they?

[Dan from Michigan]

OK, any Ivy League school.

University of Michigan(gotta say it, I'm a Spartan)
Bezerkely
Wisconsin(Madison)
Antioch
Hahvahd
Wessleyen(sp)

[octobersky]

Duke is at the forefront of in the insidious and subversive agenda of a political correctness which stifles free speech and human rights, binding us to things like hate crimes, deconstruction philosophies and the whole littany of programs which seep into todays American culture.

I agree 100%. To cite a specific example, when my son made Eagle Scout we requested letters of congratulations from countless elected officials, celebrities, presidents of universities, etc. The letter that my son received from the president of Duke was the ONLY negative one in the bunch. Here is what she wrote:

Duke University Office of the President

[date]

[octobersky
anystreet
anytown, state zip]

Dear [octobersky]:

Thank you for your letter of [date]. I am delighted, of course, that [your son] ascended to the rank of Eagle Scout, and I hope you will share with him my warmest personal congratulations for this special accomplishment. I'm sure this must be an especially rewarding step for you personally.

I must decline, however, to write a formal letter of commendation for the Eagle Scout Court of Honor. The Boy Scouts' policy of discrimination against gays makes it inappropriate for me as president of Duke to be involved in such a formal way. Duke has a strong policy of nondiscrimination, and is committed to outreach to people of many kinds of backgrounds, including gays and lesbians. I cannot, therefore, be formally a part of the ceremony as Duke's president.

Yours sincerely,

[Duke's president]

[Deport Billary]

ROFL! If that isn't classic Dork University material I don't know what is.

[wayne_shrugged]

Try spelling it Berkeley next time and you won't appear illiterate.

Thanks, Bladder, I'll keep that in mind.

[Kevin Curry]

LOL! Bezerkeley is a radical's fondest dream as a campus for froot-loop leftist, femi-whacky, gay-ga-ga indoctrination. The hard science and graduate programs may be exceptions, but only to the extent that the high-autistic faculty members that dwell there are too disconnected from everyday life to offer anything substantive to the radical social diatribes and agenda that ferment, bubble, and pop around them.

True, even Boalt Hall once had a token conservative, professing Christian believer as a tenured professor, but Phil Johnson segued into emeritus status last year leaving the law school almost entirely to the atheists and communists.

So, I'm being hyperbolic. Bezerkeley tends to bring it out in me.

[luckystarmom]

Gig 'em Aggies!!!

[IronJack]

Thank you for sharing that. Save the letter.

[Mark Turbo]

The hard science and graduate programs may be exceptions, but only to the extent that the high-autistic faculty members that dwell there are too disconnected from everyday life to offer anything substantive to the radical social diatribes and agenda that ferment, bubble, and pop around them.

Engineering and science professors certainly have their faults, but none of them are autistic and I doubt many of them even have Asperger's Syndrome. Certainly few of them are raving lunatic liberals. Of course I only have two engineering degrees, so what do I know?

Once again, you paint with too broad a brush, Kevin. Merry Christmas. You certainly need it.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

My vote is for Berkeley. U.S. air bases should use that place for bombing practice.

[jeremiah]

Wasn't that college the brainchild of the radical right winger, Dan Evans? The endorser of Patty Murray and Marie Cantvotewell?

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

Evergreen has been around for a while...it has a reputation of being very hippie, very drug-culture, very feminist.

[octobersky]

Will do. I'll save the letter even though I am disappointed that the president of Duke University would have the audacity to try and use my son's Eagle Scout Court of Honor to further her politically correct agenda. Duke's president said that Duke "is committed to outreach to people of many kinds of backgrounds" but I guess that outreach does not extend to morally straight Boy Scouts! My son received many very nice letters of congratulations, letters that have been saved in a nice presentation/keepsake album. The letter from the president of Duke was the only letter that left him feeling nonplussed.

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

It's hard to say which is the worst, they're all, pretty much, bolshevik indoctrination camps, literally, it's very disheartening.

This is true.

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

I guess that outreach does not extend to morally straight Boy Scouts

To the Left, "tolerance" means "tolerance for bizarre stuff".

They are very intolerant of decency, conservative morals, heterosexuality, the nuclear family, local control of schools...not a short list.

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

Now a really scary picture would be of Mary-Daly, feminazi professor extraordinaire. Unfortunately, I can't find one. She spent years teaching the standard "women should hate men" feminist credo. She actually had a giant battle-axe, and was often photographed with it...

One reason that college professors are so liberal is the "publish or perish" factor. To get tenure, they have to get published in various "peer-reviewed" journals.

And the clincher is, the gatekeepers to those journals, and thus to tenure, tend to be male-bashing feminazis.

[Drango]

Why debate the issue...let's ask the left(g). Here is the Mother Jones ranking of scum.

http://www.motherjones.com/magazine/SO01/top10.html

Top 10 Activist Campuses Giving it the old college outcry
by Jack Brown September/October 2001

Oberlin College students protest the School of the Americas' ties to abuses in Latin America.

Since students at the University of Wisconsin protested the presence of napalm manufacturer Dow Chemical on their campus in 1967, college students have been fighting the corporate world's creep into the academy. During the last school year, activists on many campuses sought to put their university's academic mission ahead of corporate partnerships. The flawed presidential election, campus race relations, and poverty wages for university employees also raised student ire. Here, our 2001 ranking of the best of student activism.

1. Yale University Student protesters forced Yale and its business partner Bristol-Meyers Squibb (BMS) to relax the patent on Zerit, an AIDS drug developed by Yale scientists that brought BMS $618 million in profits last year. The students collaborated with Doctors Without Borders in an attempt to shame the university into making the drug cheaply available in Africa. It worked: Yale and BMS announced in March that they would allow companies to produce a generic version of the drug, royalty-free.

2. Pitzer College When the seven-college Claremont consortium in California announced it wanted to build a new biotech campus -- promising industry backers broad influence over the curriculum -- students at Pitzer took to the streets. They spent the summer of 2000 collecting thousands of signatures to force a public referendum on the plan. University officials shelved the proposal temporarily, but protests continued throughout the school year. At a March sit-in, students chained themselves to garbage cans filled with concrete; 10 were arrested and removed -- with the aid of forklifts.

3. Pennsylvania State University Race relations at Penn State, where African Americans make up only 4 percent of the student body, were stretched to a breaking point by a series of anonymous death threats aimed at black students. In April, hundreds of protesters took over the student union to demand that the administration address the climate of racial intolerance. The sit-in ended 10 days later when the school's president promised to establish an Africana Studies Research Center and create $350,000 in new minority scholarships.

4. Harvard University The 46 students who staged a three-week occupation of the president's office in May succeeded in training a national spotlight on the low wages the nation's wealthiest university pays its custodial and food-service workers. The protest -- which stirred debate about the living-wage movement in media as diverse as Fox News, Business Week, and The Nation -- ended when Harvard promised to pay food-service workers at least $10.32 an hour, although other employees will continue to make considerably less.

5. Howard University After fellow student Prince Jones Jr. was shot five times and killed last fall by an undercover officer from Prince George's County, Maryland, in a case of mistaken identity, more than 200 Howard students marched on the U.S. Department of Justice. Their outcry caught the attention of Vice President Al Gore -- who interrupted a campaign speech at Howard to speak out against Jones' killing -- and prompted a federal investigation of the use of lethal force by the Prince George's police department.

6. University of Michigan As we reported last year, Michigan joined the Worker Rights Consortium, which polices the labor practices of university apparel licensees. The move initially prompted Nike to pull out of licensing negotiations with the school, but in January of this year, Nike agreed to reforms and signed a seven-year pact. Just weeks later, however, a consortium audit found Nike was continuing to do business with a Mexican factory that had fired striking workers. Thanks to student pressure, Nike agreed in February to push the factory owners to improve working conditions and reinstate the workers.

7. Florida A&M University Students at this predominantly African-American school in Tallahassee were outraged at the disproportionate number of black voters disenfranchised in the 2000 presidential election. On November 10, one day into the recount, some 800 Aggies occupied three floors of the state capitol, demanding, and later winning, a meeting with Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.

8. Oberlin College Last November, 110 Oberlin students journeyed 818 miles from their Ohio campus to Fort Benning, Georgia, to demand that the Army close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. The Institute, known until last year as the School of the Americas, has a dark history, having trained many Latin American military officers later tied to human-rights atrocities.

9. University of California at Los Angeles In March, 1,000 UCLA students rallied to demand that the UC system reinstate affirmative action, which has been banned since 1996. The students stormed Royce Hall and forced the cancellation of a televised debate among L.A. mayoral candidates, several of whom stayed to join the protest.

10. University of Wisconsin The Badgers stand out for their commitment to Ecopledge, an organization that attempts to persuade corporations to be more environmentally conscious. The 9,000 UW Ecopledge signers -- more than a fifth of the student body -- have vowed not to work for, or purchase from, the likes of Boise Cascade, Disney, or DaimlerChrysler until they improve their environmental records.

[IronJack]

Good list. And a site I'll check out thoroughly. Thank you for letting the Left hoist itself on its own petard. (Notice how many of these schools are cited as champions of reverse discrimination?)

[Desparado]

I don't know how many people are aware of it but University of Miami, Florida which was a great school in a great location(i.e. Miami, the Keys, The Caribbean all within 1 hour) just recently installed none other than Donna Shalala as their new president. Just got through explaining to my daughter why I hope she doesn't choose to go there!

[HeartOfDixie]

Just got through explaining to my daughter why I hope she doesn't choose to go there!

It only takes one explanation to convince her; I won't pay for it if you choose to go there, that's simple enough.

[HeartOfDixie]

They are very intolerant of decency, conservative morals, heterosexuality, the nuclear family, local control of schools...not a short list.

Mongrelize, demoralize and then communize. That's their ticket and their ahead of schedule, I'm sure.