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“Liberal Professor: My Liberal Students Terrify Me” — so naturally, he goes to Vox.com, the home of Matt “Fighting dishonesty with dishonesty is sometimes the right thing for advocates to do” Yglesias and Ezra “Not everything the Nazis touched was bad” Klein to spill his worst fears. In response, Ace of Spades writes, if a leftwing professor is feeling terrified by his fellow leftists still in the larva stage, “Then all is right. Terror is virtue, Robspierre said. It is through terror that we compel virtue”: I say it’s sort of worth reading because the writer is such a...

Modern progressive college students have become so militant they’re frightening their own like-minded professors, according to an account posted by one such professor on the website Vox. The professor, using the pseudonym Edward Schlosser, claims to have taught for nine years and currently works at a midsize state college. Over that time, he says, students have decisively shifted to become so protective of their fragile emotions that defying their sensibilities can be “suicidal” for one’s career. “Things have changed since I started teaching,” Schlosser writes. “The vibe is different. I wish there were a less blunt way to put this,...

By now, we've all heard how Harvard President Lawrence Summers, a former member of President Clinton's Cabinet and a distinguished scholar in his own right, made a politically incorrect point at a faculty seminar recently. One feminist professor stormed out of the room, and before you knew it, activists were clamoring for Summers' resignation. Soon after, he embarked on an apology tour for even raising the point that aroused them. If the president of Harvard cannot raise intellectual questions in a university setting without jeopardizing his job, what does that tell you about the state of higher education in America?...

#1 - Diane Miller #2 - Arthur Miller #3 - Richard Lowy #4 - Brian Dolinar #5 - Margaret George-Cramer #6 - Donald Hodges CLICK THROUGH TO WEBSITE Warning: Postings are only opinions. (See Terms of Service)Record for NoIndoctrination.org entry #157.   California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) Jan. 29, 2003     http://www.csusm.edu CA     Course: WMST 101: Introduction to Womens Studies   Course Catalog Description: An introduction to the scholarship, both disciplinary and interdisciplinary, on women with an emphasis on critical thinking. Explores works by and about women, gender roles and comtemporary issues around the world, and analyzes arguments surrounding women's status....