Missing Diversity

Front Page Mag ^ | 17 jun 02 | David Horowitz

[white trash redneck]

Yet another depressing commentary on the state of political correctness at our universities.

[G.Mason]

Good post.

Were you trying to confuse the readers with the addendum at the bottom?

[white trash redneck]

Were you trying to confuse the readers with the addendum at the bottom?

Shoot! I didn't even notice that until you called my attention to it. I have no idea how that got in.

[Red Jones]

bump

[FormerLib]

Read. Learn.

[jimkress]

Bump!

[iconoclast]

BUMP!

[IronJack]

Horowitz is on a righteous jihad against campus PC. If there's any man who can take down the left from its towers in academia, it's David Horowitz. He's simply indefatigable in his crusade, and armed with an irrefutable truth. I'm honored to say I know him.

[x]

Good article. Even before the radical hires of the seventies, university professors were overwhelmingly Democrats and liberals, though. The situation may have gotten worse lately, and it may be harder for conservatives to get in, but it's been building since Wilson and FDR, Stevenson and Kennedy encouraged professors to think that they could play a role in running -- and remaking -- the country.

Perhaps a century ago, when the university was still thought of as a refuge from the outside world, you might have found more balance. What's happened lately is that the developing political role of the universities has become a pervasive culture there. The bottom fell out of high culture. Nobody was much interested in Chaucer or Pindar any more. What was left was political ideology as the true object and method of study and political correctness as the local culture and way of life.

There was much faith years ago that education and high culture would make us wiser, nobler and better people. That hope has been misplaced. High culture was not strong enough or appealing enough to overcome the media, the demands of academic production, or human nature. In the end, the idea that education improves people came to seem to the professorate as a confirmation of their own prejudices and a ground for increasing the power of intellectuals in society.

[Anamensis]

He was far and away the most qualified candidate and we had a terrific interview. But then we went to lunch and he let out that he was for school vouchers....

When I read that I just closed my eyes for a second and just sat here. Then I opened my eyes, straightened my spine, and made this mental vow:

I will attain candidacy this fall. I will collect my fieldwork next year. I will complete my dissertation. I will go on job interviews. I will look these bastards right in the eye, innocent as can be, and mouth whatever they want to hear:

Why yes, I AM a Gramscian scholar, a Marxist feminist, and a propenent of social justice! Why yes, it IS shameful about those dirty Zionists and those poor, oppressed Palestinians. Oh it's just TERRIBLE about Mumia, isn't it? Oh, I just LOVE that Che shirt, where can I get one?

And then I will start teaching, and call no attention to the presence of Ludwig Von Mises, Ayn Rand, John McWhorter, Jim Goad, and David Horowitz tucked in among the required marxist crap they insist upon. No telltale stickers will appear on MY office door... until after I get tenure.

And then, oh then...

[Thebaddog]

Angela Davis—a lifelong Communist zealot with no noticeable scholarly achievement—is a celebrated campus figure (there is even an "Angela Davis Lounge" at the University of Michigan)

That crazy lounge was in my dorm when I went to the UM in the mid seventies. It was on the main concourse of Mary Markley hall and must still be, bless her heart. It was a probably still is a haven for every black resident and there was no diversity in that room. It was all BLACK and I was made to feel not welcome often. I always felt that the brothers stuck together so tightly because they were intimidated by the academics and reacted by banding together. Retention rates at UM bear me out because its hard to keep brothers in the school after recruiting them so heavily.

[Emilio]

Remember the "DIVERSITY" motto Democrats use is actually PERVERSITY. Let the perverts be clasified as special protected class and use it as a civil right issue.

[stylin19a]

Too Funny !....but alas, how will you avoid the union dues?

[Travis McGee]

Beware sending your children to Marxism and Hate America academies.

Which is basically all of them today.

[SBeck]

What I learned is that the damn lies (read statistics) that the learned Mr. Horowitz sited were overwhelmingly from the humanities departments. I am quite certain had the data been culled from the engineering, math, physics and hard science side of the house that it would have evened out the gap. Furthermore, if an administration was actively abusing its conservative students (also known as customers) I suspect that the institute would be facing litigation up to its collective eyeballs.

My wish is for all this anecdotal evidence to go away and for some organization to provide a comprehensive survey of the political climate of our nation's campuses. I suspect no one will because the results might turn out to be very surprising.

[Fudd]

What I learned is that the damn lies (read statistics) that the learned Mr. Horowitz sited were overwhelmingly from the humanities departments. I am quite certain had the data been culled from the engineering, math, physics and hard science side of the house that it would have evened out the gap.

As someone working in these circles, I might agree with this statement, to a point. However, I also remember that the Dean of the College of Engineering at THE Ohio State University said, in a recent meeting closed to the faculty, that the college would not hire a faculty member "white, male and over 50".

[maica]

David Horowitz has addressed this in previous columns; he asked the students to research the voting registrations of faculty in the 'soft' majors, where the classes deal in 'feelings.' In the 'hard' sciences the instructors do not teach and grade on 'feelings,' but on measurable 'fact.'

[Countyline]

"...Diggins told the assembled academics: "When my generation of liberals was in control of university faculties in the Sixties, we opened the doors to the hiring of radicals in the name of diversity. We thought you would do the same. But you didn’t. You closed the doors behind you.""

We are in an neverending story of thinking that 'if we act with inclusion, they will act with inclusion'.

WRONG!

[justshutupandtakeit]

Been away for some time I see. Conservative students have been catching hell for years and lawsuits have done nothing to protect them. Their newspapers are routinely stolen and destroyed, they are attacked by leftists physically, their speakers shouted down and threatened.

Open your eyes before it is a total repeat of Nazi Germany.