Universities celebrate diversity in all but ideologyFriday, March 28, 2003 - Volume 92 Number 49 Universities were designed to be institutions of academic knowledge. Some liberal professors might say that universities' intentions should be "the disinterested pursuit of knowledge." Fine. That being said, what were universities not designed to be? They were not intended to be "agencies of social change," or to promote a particular political agenda. These ideas are no longer popular among the faculties and administrations of today's universities, particularly in the social sciences. Today's more popular doctrine is illustrated in the words of Richard Rorty, professor of...