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?

[Drango]

I'd love to send my kids to George Mason. Can't afford it

Beat the Kids till they get their grades up and get a scholarship!

I know squat about it but there are some nice grants out there...have you done any on line hunting?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

They're all pretty bad. You have to keep in mind that about five universities dominate the major departments at most colleges in terms of where the faculty learned their ideology. So you end up with a weird type of conformity throughout the country in terms of PC junk thought. It's not all that complicated and their lectures read like comicbook versions of the alienated 19th-century Germanic ideologies they attempt to imitate. Pathetic really. Very few of these professors have anything remotely like a classical Christian education in their backgrounds. Moreover, it's extremely difficult for conservatives to get hired as professors.

If you read the comicbooks Freud for Beginners and Marx for Beginners you pretty much know all the convaluted jargon these PC types learned in graduate school. Maybe more. One ridiculous thing to contemplate, the so-called "postmodern" consensus that haunts many Humanities departments basically declares that real, essential philosophical knowledge is impossible. In other words, the very Marxist and Freudian truth claims they make in class, they also claim are impossible. Weird contradiction. Save your money kids, these emperors wear no clothes!

Twin icons of PC hegemony

[TheGrimReaper]

The University of Wisconsin Madison has quite a history

That hell-hole is referred to as "The Peoples' Republic of Madison" for a good reason....those commies can tell when you're even thinking a conservative thought - then they all point at you and squeal, just like in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"!!!

[mrustow]

If you've had experience or know of any incidents that elevate a certain college or university above its fellows in the realm of corrupt academia, let me know the institution and the incident. We've got some big plans for them ...

Nope -- can't help you. I know of a few thousand schools, all of which are pretty much equally bad.

[mrustow]

In Oregon? Last Year, their website referred to the American Southwest in terms suggesting it didn't belong to America.

[Dr. Good Will Hunting]

University of Oregon = Far Left Hippies On Crack.

[Lancey Howard]

So the speech codes are dead...

They may not be official anymore but the tone was surely set, and a reputation takes a long time to repair.
Anyway, thanks for the update. A breath of sanity, even from a place thought to be hopeless like the U. of Wisconsin, is encouraging.

Regards,
LH

[Slyfox]

Brown University is a(n) expensive cesspool.

[Trust but Verify]

Have done some scholarship applications, but it is very disheartening. So many of them are given to 'disadvantaged' people, people of non-white racial backgrounds. It is literally possible, despite grades, for a black kid to go to college for free. Between government grants, tax breaks and scholarships tilted in their favor, they can have it all at almost any university.

Because my kids have the misfortune of living in a upper-middle class household with TWO parents, they can get nothing. Not even a subsidized federal loan.

[Francohio]

You have to hand it to Antioch for guts.

They remained determinedly Stalinist in the face of overwhelming pressure from the neo-Trotsky-ites.

They do have one good idea, though, and that is the co-op program, in which students actually work during their school years. If it weren't for that, none of them would ever bathe.

The kids there are a very rich group. They would have to be to go out in public looking as weird as they do. Bit out of chaos: opportunity. A peircing parlor, combined with a tattoo facility could make you big money in Yellow Springs.

But the worst thing these clymers have done to West Central Ohio is to infect the ordinary, town-dwelling youth, who work in factories and on farms, or go to HS and the local JC's with this inane Grunge-Commie-Hippie-'Culture.' These poor bastards can't afford it!

[ChaseR]

"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."

(so as to save bandwidth, perhaps a few posters will compile a list of the "best colleges and universities that uphold traditional American values" - - I state this in this thread for two reasons, to save bandwidth but to also show other posters and lurkers - which Am. colleges and universities - are now considered the best ones for all of our kids to consider attending.

Let me start off this sidebar - of sorts by listing...
the university - that our son has chosen and that just happens to have been - - our President's choice (or was it Bush Sr) -

Texas A+M

IronJack, please don't think I'm trying to "take over" your excellent thread, but perhaps this important thread of yours - can "kill two birds with one stone"..lol

[DaiHuy]

Weatern Washington University.

[DaiHuy]

oops that should have been Western Washington University

[NewAmsterdam]

In my experience with American students I was impressed with Hillsdale students. But The College of New Jersey seems ambitious, taking top-students who just don't have the money to go to more expensive universities. I quite liked Fordham in NY and some of the faculty I met at University of San Francisco (the Jesuit college, although I understood there has been a bit of a coup d'état which seems to have eliminated a very good culture program. Maybe others know more about that). The students I taught who were frankly useless came from George Mason, W. Wilson college, Evergreen State college, and even Dartmouth. Even if the individual students are keen, diligent and bright, the culture of their surroundings seems to destroy their love for inquiry and knowledge pretty soon. Drugs end all that take over quickly. There are, of course, some very notable exceptions such as a girl I taught who is now at Columbia, with whom I happily still maintain contact.

[steveisright]

Texas A&M University. Great academics, conservative values, they stress integrity, honor and duty to one's family and country. Here's a shocker - they encourage parental involvement! The corps stresses traditon and honor. There's a real sense of community on the campus. They're producing a great bunch of future leaders at the College Station campus.

Bahaha, i was about to say this about Baylor University but you beat me to it. If there be an unbiased college it isn't Baylor, only Christians are allowed to teach (although more like "christians" for much of the faculty), but i'm as happy with it as i could be. I live next to UVA and have heard dreadful stories from many people, though i don't have specifics. I took one class and got accepted into it, and may still do grad school there, but fully aware of how incredibly rampant liberalism and intolerance runs there.

[NewAmsterdam]

Sorry, did mean to mention George Mason on the positive side. The slot for useless university was reserved for Univ. of San Diego. Complete tossers.

[steveisright]

Here's one vote for Baylor! Not if you're into football, though....

[NewAmsterdam]

If those are you criteria you may want to have a look at the College of New Jersey. It is a state school, not necessarily conservative, but they seemed very ambitious to me and keen on actually teaching theirstudents something useful, such as reading, writing and using your brain. But please bear in mind, these were just my impressions from a one-day visit, so I may be totally wrong.

[ChaseR]

"George Mason, Chicago Economics, Grove City, Claremont" If you have time, what is the full title of these schools and which cities are they in please, thank you.

[M.K. Borders]

Texas A&M University. Great academics, conservative values, they stress integrity, honor and duty to one's family and country. Here's a shocker - they encourage parental involvement! The corps stresses traditon and honor. There's a real sense of community on the campus. They're producing a great bunch of future leaders at the College Station campus.

Agree. Aggies are a legend within the Army. Maybe not on par with the "Point" or VMI, but on the ROTC side of the ledger, Texas A&M dominates.