[summer]

sultan, re your post on college professors -- read my post #1 below, for info about the author, and then read his article (also below):

Free Speech and an Orthodoxy of Dissent
[Why a backlash now exists against U.S. college professors]

[sultan88]

Thanks summer!! Great article - somehow I missed that thread last year.

[conservativemusician]

Great article. Some lively debate followed.

From most of what I read lately it seems as though the liberal/socialist/hate America/blame America first types are still in control of academia and stifling opposing views at every turn. The incident at Arizona State being the most recent example. I find it infuriating. There may have been backlash immediately following 9-11, but I don't see any consequences.

[Mudboy Slim]

"...a serious solution requires recognition of the one-sided intellectual climate of the contemporary academy. Ironically, a decades-long effort to achieve diversity on our campuses has left them more intellectually and politically uniform than ever. In the name of representing marginalized points of view, we have created an orthodoxy of dissent. If the country decides that our colleges and universities have nothing to offer in this time of crisis beyond one-sided analyses supporting a distinctly minority viewpoint, then not only will our ethos of free speech be threatened, but the academy itself may be caught up in a crisis of legitimacy. If the radical professoriate wants its rights of free speech respected, it will need to relearn the meaning of the freedom it is asking for, and readmit to the academy thoughtful representatives of the very ideas it has heretofore excluded."

Excellent link, my FRiend...I appreciate you bringing it to the Black threads 'cuz I'd have never read "The Chronicle of Higher Education" on my own...LOL!!

The magical Power of FreeRepublic.com strikes again!!

FReegards...MUD