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A professor who
confronted me declared that he was "personally offended" by my column.
He railed that his political viewpoints never affected his teaching and
suggested that if I wanted a faculty with Republicans I should have
attended a university in the South. "If you like conservatism you can
certainly attend the University of Texas and you can walk past the
statue of Jefferson Davis everyday on your way to class," he wrote in
an e-mail.
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Eugene,
Ore. – When I began examining the political affiliation of faculty at
the University of Oregon, the lone conservative professor I spoke with
cautioned that I would "make a lot of people unhappy."
Though I mostly brushed off his warning – assuming that academia would
be interested in such discourse – I was careful to frame my research
for a column for the school newspaper diplomatically.
The University of Oregon (UO), where I study journalism, invested
millions annually in a diversity program that explicitly included
"political affiliation" as a component. Yet, out of the 111 registered
Oregon voters in the departments of journalism, law, political science,
economics, and sociology, there were only two registered Republicans.
A number of conservative students told me they felt Republican ideas
were frequently caricatured and rarely presented fairly. Did the dearth
of conservative professors on campus and ... ( cont)
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So,
are our universities like rotted fruit, that must be discarded?
Or, rotted teeth that require immediate extraction and implant
replacement ? One of the two, certainly.
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In a few short years, print journalism will be an anachronism -
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There will be a glut of ex-journo profs roaming around looking for similar jobs where they can work 12 hours per week and get paid for 40 to spew their liberal drivel.
In a few years, this same jouro prof's job description may include the obligatory "Do you want fries with that?"
A lot of college profs live in our neighborhood because we live near the university.
They really skew what would otherwise be a solid conservative block.
It's a mystery to me why colleges can use public funds to teach courses that are anathema to the nation that supports the colleges in the first place. I don't think my taxes should go to to a place that advocates the overthrow of my country. If anything, schools that use public funds should be obligated to teach what the majority of the citizenry believe, not what the dystopian extremists think.
ReplyDeleteYou want to teach the overthrow of our system, do so using private funding.
By the way Professor, Jefferson Davis was a DEMOCRAT before he was a CONFEDERATE!!!
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