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1 posted on 01/05/2003 11:31:41 AM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
Here's a blueprint:

Hillsdale College

2 posted on 01/05/2003 11:36:44 AM PST by leadpenny
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3 posted on 01/05/2003 11:42:25 AM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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Outside stakeholders -- board members, alumni, parents of students and, in the case of state institutions, state legislators -- need to start worrying more about politics than about football.

They could start by instituting a quota system to ensure diversity in viewpoints. The tenured monolithic liberal faculty hacks could be put out of the classroom doing useful work like, say, planting flowers on campus medians.

4 posted on 01/05/2003 12:06:02 PM PST by Vigilanteman
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I agree with leadpenny.

As long as higher education is funded by the state, it will serve the interests of state power.
5 posted on 01/05/2003 12:06:54 PM PST by Carry_Okie
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To: Dog Gone
Why do professors consistently misunderstand the most important challenges facing the country...

Because, as with all liberals, real truth is irrelevant.

When you create your own 'truth,' you invent your own universe.

When God commanded having no other gods before Him, I'm sure he was speaking of these stupid liberals who consider themselves gods of their own universes.

6 posted on 01/05/2003 12:10:12 PM PST by jigsaw
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This article by Benjamin Stein is somewhat related. Point 1 in his article is especially true. Just scroll down a bit.

http://www.lundian.com/forum/view.shtml?p=PS200212150110589480&l=english
7 posted on 01/05/2003 12:15:15 PM PST by ladylib
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Why do professors consistently misunderstand the most important challenges facing the country

It depends a lot on their field of study. Certain professors like engineering professors actually held jobs in the real world or could have. Philosophy and history professors are often very sheltered types who have never left the campus. They were students of the 60's, that's all they've ever learned, they never left their Ivory Towers and faced any kind of reality.

9 posted on 01/05/2003 12:22:59 PM PST by FITZ
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In a follow-up to this article in the LA Times, Pipes got thoroughly blasted in one of the most biased forums of them all, letters to the editor that actually find their way into print. For once, diversity was not liberalism's clarion call to battle. This time the magic word was "dissent," which brings to mind one question: When campus 'dissent' becomes monolithic, lock-step leftist orthodoxy, shouldn't it forfeit the right to define itself as dissent?
Pipes is absolutely right. I returned to UCLA on the day Laura Bush was disinvited to be the commencement speaker for the School of Education. It was like entering enemy territory.
12 posted on 01/05/2003 12:47:23 PM PST by gabby hayes
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The quickest way to get a response from these anti-American, anti-family, anti-Christian university professors is to pull their federal funding.

All God-fearing Americans should contact their elected representatives and demand to know why their tax dollars are being used to give aid and comfort to the enemy and work against everything we believe in.
13 posted on 01/05/2003 1:21:41 PM PST by wdkeller
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Why do American academics so readily see their own country as the problem?

Every day it becomes more and more obvious. Liberals despise the U.S. I doubt they would give you a reason, and most would deny it's true. Buit when the US is attacked, and they first say the response will create an inescapable quagnire, and that proves wrong, what does that leave? Well, in truth, the problems we face in the world must be our fault. It's easy to hate a society at fault.

Furthermore, it's quite painless. If you can blame us for the problems of Arabs trying to kill us, you can absolve yourself of the responsibility of trying to do something about it.

14 posted on 01/05/2003 1:37:33 PM PST by stevem
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The Liberal Arts faculties are teaching generally useless subjects, and these branches of the Universities should simply be closed down.

As for the faculties in Science, Engineering, Medicine, etc, a high proportion of them are immigrants and can find jobs in more congenial environments overseas.

15 posted on 01/05/2003 1:49:52 PM PST by Lessismore
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Having taught in the liberal arts sector of American universities since 1965, I couldn't agree more. What's happened in most English, history, politics, philosophy, comparative literature, and similar departments is despicable.

But fixing it won't be easy. When you let things go to the point where the inmates are running the asylum, it's extremely difficult to cure the situation. You have no one you can trust to do sensible hiring. You have few sensible graduate students coming out of the system to hire. You have few people you can trust to run the departments and improve them. This mess will take a long, long time to straighten out, if indeed it can be straightened out at all.

Hillsdale never went that way, and there are other exceptions. But all the formerly "best" universities are now, in this regard, among the worst. It's a very sad situation.
17 posted on 01/05/2003 2:19:40 PM PST by Cicero
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Why do radicals see the U.S. as evil? You might as well ask why do poisonous snakes bite. The simple answer is that Marxist radicals will never tolerate a capitalist democracy. To these leftist nuts conservatives and Republicans are the Great Satan. Under this theory, they are willing to side with religious dictatorships to try and
defeat the U.S. Obviously is we were a Marxist country, all this talk about us being imperialist aggressors would vanish in a blizzard of articles justifying invading non-Marxist religious states.
18 posted on 01/05/2003 2:26:48 PM PST by driftless
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"...professors have full privileges to freedom of expression."*
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*Except: Conservative professors, God-fearing professors and pro-life professors.

19 posted on 01/05/2003 2:29:55 PM PST by Bonaparte
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The"SICKSTIES",America's worst decade.
20 posted on 01/05/2003 2:30:13 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: Dog Gone
Having been a student and an educator in higher academe for many years I can give you some observations of my own:

The politically extreme on the left tend to hire those who mimic their own ideologies.

Those who favor the free market capitalism of the US tend to be seen as academic dolts - that is people not able to discern the inner workings and subversive nature of the free market. Add to this those who are on the "religious right" - those who espouse the tenets of fundamental Christianity and Judaism and abhor the manifestations of social behavior such as homosexuality, New Age spiritualism, and a value free way of life.

These anti American ideologues generally espouse the philosophy of the leadership of the progressive elite as I call it - that there are those who through their own gifts of thought and intelligence who are more equipped than the masses to rule them and formulate policies that will redistribute the wealth that the economic elites have amassed through no inherent superiority of their own - but by luck or by illegal means. Therefore, it is up to the intellectual elites and their agents to redistribute this wealth to those who are the have nots.

Most of these academic nags on the Left are exactly that - Leftists who absolutely hate the fact that they do not have the same power as the business elites have and are incapable of reaching the kind of wealth status that business elites do. What else is left for them to do but nag, complain, and use propaganda in their classrooms to maintain the lie that there is a conspiracy against the "common man" and the academes by the financial elites.

Finally, I have survived the generally unionist left wing atmosphere at my college by strong and logical arguments to the point where they can run but they cannot hide. I have been doing this since I got tenure; I would never have done this at the beginning since I would never have survived the tenure process. I also do propaganda although I do not see it as such. Since others and generally the media espouse socialist ideologies in their classrooms I also propose alternative (conservative) ways of thinking to my students. I enjoy the feedback and especially relish the fact that my students gain the ability to question authority (the leftist establishment).

25 posted on 01/05/2003 3:59:09 PM PST by eleni121
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As the 60s radicals die out, the campus will become less and less radical leftist.

Even Gen-xers who start on the radical left, seem more likely to drift to the right as they get more experience. By the time the radical leftists realize what's happened, there will be a core of tenured gen-X moderates, conservatives, libertarians, and the like.
26 posted on 01/05/2003 4:32:42 PM PST by Celtjew Libertarian
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"Outside stakeholders -- board members, alumni, parents of students and, in the case of state institutions, state legislators -- need to start worrying more about politics than about football."

I hope he has a backup plan.

29 posted on 01/05/2003 7:03:23 PM PST by Six Bells
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American universities have turned into hotbeds of opposition

First sentence of the article and wrong too! What opposition? The Left is the establishment nowadays! The Krintong crowd, while in power, played like they were the opposition. Unfortunately, the Republicans play along with this game, pretending they are the establishment. And so, Mr Pipes plays right into the hands of the Left. They pretend to be the dissidents while they control the media, the academe, the local governments, and the federal government regardless of who's at the helm by dictating the national agenda (ever heard of "racism", "the homeless", "the chilrun", "global warming"?), while the sheepish Pubbies play along. It's time to expose the paradigm and subvert it, the cat sez!

30 posted on 01/05/2003 7:14:23 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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There's an organization that's actually kicking some butt and taking names, not just talking about the problem: the American Council of Trustees and Alumni.

For an example of its impact go to: http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1213-05.htm<>

Fun to read something like that for a change, isn't it?

With Lynne Cheney as one of its founders, the ACTA lets trustees and rich alumni know how their multimillion dollar endowments are actually being spent. Some have withdrawn or redirected their giving after learning of the partisan political and often anti-American nature of university spending. Go to their site and give them all the financial and other support possible:

http://www.goacta.org/

Another group that is fighting the good fight from inside academe is the National Association of Scholars. If you're qualified to join please do and put your dollars to work in an essencial cause. Their web site is: http://www.nas.org/

35 posted on 01/05/2003 10:41:50 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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