Because somewhere along the lines, it became accepted fact that in order to succeed, your kid just HAS to go to college. So, my best friend, for instance, who is happy to work as a woodworker is forced to go to get a business degree. Why???
I am a college student at a large public university, studying chemistry. That kind of field is a legitimate field of study, and will benifit society. Ditto for med school if I get in. But what in the heck would I do with a women's study degree?
Parents need to have tighter control on the purse strings. Because they do not, college students taking bogus majors have the free time to engage in silly activism.
There are many aspects to life. There are our jobs, business, engineering, govt., politics, macro economics, foreign affairs. It all these cases, conservatism is correct, and liberalism is a lie that covers up the greed, power seeking corruption of its proponents.
However, there is the other side of life. There are your friends, family, parents, children, and lovers. I suspect that you treat them with compassion, understanding, and forgivness. These are the words and thoughts of liberalism and maybe even communism. I suspect when you throw a party, you make sure everyone has the same amount to eat and drink. I think the liberal arts colleges do have a place in showing a different side of life. This side may not be applicable in the grand scheme of things, but may be applicable in the small scheme of things.
There are a lot of worthwhile "conservative" colleges out there. While they are not Yale or Princeton, they are academically more sound than most and they also do not have the feminist agenda to put up with. Let's get real here folks, people send their children there because the word Yale or Princeton on a diploma lands their children cushier jobs - they think. The parents don't realize their children are being brainwashed.
However, there is hope on the horizon - we have a whole generation of "home schooled" conservative children about to hit the colleges of America - STAND BACK - I believe it's going to be another revolution on our campuses; toward the conservative side. It is interesting this will hit during the time Bush is in office, and he can present a "perfect" role model of the conservative position.