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It is entirely rational for conservatives to flock to jobs that reward competition, aggression and victory at the expense of others. So it should not be surprising that liberals gravitate to professions -- such as academics, journalism, social work and the arts -- that emphasize inquiry, objectivity and the free exchange of ideas.

Republicans OutnumberedIn Academia, Studies Find-- The New York Times, Nov. 18Oh, well, if studies say so. The great secret is out: Liberals dominate campuses. Coming soon: "Moon Implicated in Tides, Studies Find."One study of 1,000 professors finds that Democrats outnumber Republicans at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. That imbalance, more than double what it was three decades ago, is intensifying because younger professors are more uniformly liberal than the older cohort that is retiring.Another study, of voter registration records, including those of professors in engineering and the hard sciences, found nine Democrats for every Republican...

BERKELEY, Calif. - At the birthplace of the free speech movement, campus radicals have a new target: the faculty that came of age in the 60's. They say their professors have been preaching multiculturalism and diversity while creating a political monoculture on campus. Conservatism is becoming more visible at the University of California here, where students put out a feisty magazine called The California Patriot and have made the Berkeley Republicans one of the largest groups on campus. But here, as at schools nationwide, the professors seem to be moving in the other direction, as evidenced by their campaign contributions...

Arab students physically assault conservatives at San Francisco State University. San Francisco, November 1, 2004- A mob of Arab students at San Francisco State University attacked a group of College Republicans on the San Francisco State University campus at noon today during a “Turnout the Vote” event in front of the campus student union building. Derek Wray, President of the SFSU College Republicans, told Front Page Magazine that an angry mob of Palestinian students attacked the club’s table, as well as individual members of the Republican club who were handing out pro-Bush/Cheney campaign materials. According to Wray, campus police were...

San Francisco, November 1, 2004- A mob of Arab students at San Francisco State University attacked a group of College Republicans on the San Francisco State University campus at noon today during a “Turnout the Vote” event in front of the campus student union building. Derek Wray, President of the SFSU College Republicans, told Front Page Magazine that an angry mob of Palestinian students attacked the club’s table, as well as individual members of the Republican club who were handing out pro-Bush/Cheney campaign materials. According to Wray, campus police were..

DURHAM, N.H., October 28, 2004—The University of New Hampshire has evicted a student from housing for posting fliers in his residential hall joking that freshman women could lose the “Freshman 15” by walking up the dormitory stairs. The public university found him guilty of violating policies on affirmative action, harassment, and disorderly conduct, and has sentenced him to mandatory counseling and probation along with his eviction. [See the flier - PDF, 156.8 KB] In appealing his sentence, student Timothy Garneau explained that the flier was intended to make light of the common frustration with people who delay the elevator by...

"One Man's Terrorist Is Another Man's Freedom Fighter" By David Horowitz FrontPageMagazine.com | November 8, 2004 On September 13, 2004 – as it happens just two days after the third anniversary of 9/11 -- FrontPage magazine published student Brett Mock’s account of a class he took in “Peace Studies” at Ball State University in Indiana. The class was billed as a course in the causes of war and peace (“the study of methods of achieving peace within communities and among nations; history of peace movement and the causes of conflict; and analysis of principles to resolve conflict using case studies”)....

Not Out of AfricaWas Greek Culture Stolen from Africa? Modern Myth vs. Ancient History Excerpted from her book: Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History Why I wrote the book In the fall of 1991 I was asked to write a review-article for The New Republic about Martin Bernal's Black Athena and its relation to the Afrocentrist movement. The assignment literally changed my life. Once I began to work on the article I realized that here was a subject that needed all the attention, and more, that I could give to it. Although...

I'm wondering if there are indeed other Republican professors or teachers out there. This seems the time to band together, gain strength from each other and begin to buck the liberal bias in education. I have never begun to be active in this way, but even sharing stories (horror or otherwise) may help up to be stronger on our own campuses. What situations bother you that you feel the need to speak out against? For me it is two things that I can think of right now: 1) The assumption that multi-lingual education is the way to go (i.e. English...

What passes for an appropriate paper topic in Professor Clifton Snider's English 100 course at California State University, Long Beach? Mr. Snider offers his students 56 suggestions on his university Web site

Shut up and sue! Mike S. Adams October 15, 2004 Hello Clifton. It is nice to hear from you. I just received your email, which follows in its entirety: Dear Mike S. Adams, On your web site you are using my copyrighted material from my web site (and misrepresenting it) without my permission. The material is meant for my professional work only. Stop using it now. Thank you. Clifton Snider, Ph.D. I understand that you are quite upset with me over my recent article, entitled “Shut up and teach.” Being exposed as an ideological bigot isn’t much fun, is it?...

Chronicle of Higher Education From the issue dated September 24, 2004 http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i05/05a00801.htm Conservatives in a Liberal Landscape On left-leaning campuses around the country, professors on the right feel disenfranchised By JENNIFER JACOBSON Robert G. Natelson, a full professor at the University of Montana's law school, wants to teach constitutional law. Four times he applied to teach the course when there was a vacancy. Four times he was denied. Next spring he will get to teach the course on a temporary basis, but only because of recommendations from an outside mediator. Mr. Natelson says the university's reluctance has nothing to do with...

WASHINGTON -- Amid occasional outbursts of political correctness, I have consistently held that straight (as in non-gay) white males (sometimes known as SWMs) deserve respect too. After all, we may have come here on different ships but we're all in the same boat now, as Whitney Young, the late, great civil rights leader, used to say. With that in mind, I registered no small amount of alarm to hear that a young SWM at the University of North Carolina has been illegally subjected to "intentional discrimination and harassment," according to a ruling by the U.S. Department of Education's Office for...

Multiculturalism seeks to inject an anti-Western dogma into today's curriculum. Back to school nowadays means back to classrooms, lessons and textbooks permeated by multiculturalism and its championing of “diversity.” Many parents and teachers regard multiculturalism as an indispensable educational supplement, a salutary influence that “enriches” the curriculum. But is it?

With just one semester of coursework at the University of Texas completed, Blake Helm stepped unwittingly into a religious minefield. Coming from a theologically conservative background, Mr. Helm had signed up for Professor L. Michael White's "Rise of Christianity" course, only to find out in the first class that the subject matter was the fall of Christianity. "He started out with, ‘Why aren't they [the Gospels] in chronological order?' and went on from attack to attack," Mr. Helm said. Mr. Helm dropped the class after one day, but others stay on: Some, Mr. Helm says, "won't think about questioning what...

DENVER Sept. 10, 2004 — A university president and a Democratic state lawmaker said rules put in place this year to protect conservative viewpoints on Colorado campuses have harmed free speech and led to death threats against professors. Republican lawmakers responded that conservative students are still being harassed and more needs to be done. The comments came as a handful of college officials and students went before the Legislature's Joint Education Committee on Thursday to report on efforts to enforce the Academic Bill of Rights. All state-funded colleges adopted the policy this year under pressure from Republican lawmakers. The measure...

Steve Schiro got a history lesson he didn't expect on his first day attending West Valley College in California last week. "Are you going to continue to let (President Bush) lie to you and are you going to let him fool you?" his history teacher asked the class. "Do you think the Republicans in New York are telling you anything but lies? We do have a voice, and that's November 2nd. It's OK to be Republican, but it's hot in hell." According to Schiro, his professor also took the position that police are bad and are only there to beat...

The black alumni of Harvard are unhappy with the university's affirmative action program. It helps blacks—but the wrong ones. The New York Times says that there are 520 black Harvard undergraduates (8% of the total), but "the majority of them—perhaps as many as two-thirds— [are] West Indian and African immigrants or their children, or to a lesser extent, children of biracial couples." That leaves "only about a third of the students…from families in which all four grandparents were born in this country, descendants of slaves." It's a sensitive topic for Harvard, other elite colleges, and defenders of affirmative action. (So...

Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004 The Right's New Wing Diverse and well funded, the next generation of conservatives is winning battles on campus. But not all are fighting for George W. Bush By JOHN CLOUD Earlier this month, a group of students met in Washington to bash George W. Bush, debate the power of multinational corporations and hear a speaker who denounced the Iraq war, the Patriot Act and stricter airport security. A leader of these college kids calls them "the new counterculture," but here's the thing: they aren't liberals. The 185 students were in Washington to attend the 26th annual...

When Ruth Malhotra told her college professor she planned to miss a class to attend a conservative political conference, the professor wasn't happy. You're just going to fail my class," she said the instructor told her. Malhotra, a student at Georgia Institute of Technology, ultimately filed a grievance with the school, saying the professor used her public policy class to push her outspokenly liberal viewpoints on students. "We're there to learn the foundations of policy, not the professors' personal platforms," said Malhotra, 20, Atlanta. Georgia Tech spokesman Bob Harty said school policy barred him from disclosing how Malhotra's grievance was...