<p>hahahaha </p>
<p>rp.....iluvejesus is a joke.....its obviously some liberal uses sarcasm to bash on conservatives....i thought that was pretty obvious...</p>
<p>I thought iluvejesus was making a satire of the conservatives....</p>
<p>hmm i guess rp didn't get the point...</p>
<p>wow... somehow i don't find that funny... sorry ilovejesus67</p>
<p>get off the board you and get your needed attention elsewhere</p>
<p>achtung!!!</p>
<p>Not surprising at all. Look at these results:</p>
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What the study found is appalling. In the Philosophy department, there were 10 registered Democrats, and no registered Republicans. In Sociology, 10 Democrats and one Green party member are left unbalanced by any conservative counterparts. The History and Economics departments each have two Republicans, as opposed to 26 and 9 Democratic/Green party members, respectively.
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So HUMANITIES PROFESSORS TEND TO BE LIBERAL?!?!?!!? SHOCKING!!!!!
The minority of conservatives in history make sense; most historians are liberal, but there needs to be some conservative voice.
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Five faculty members in Africana Studies belonging to Al Sharptons party also face no challenge from the right, while 18 Democrats dominate the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department unopposed.
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Well Cosby,Powell and Rice, which make up 50% of the US's black conservatives are busy :D. What fool expects conservatives in a feminist department?</p>
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Government, the single most sensitive department when it comes to the facultys political affiliation, claims only two Republicans, with ten times as many Democrats.
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This also makes sense, as professors in general in this field are liberal.</p>
<p>The School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) employs 29 Dems, with six GOP members to provide the other half of ILRs balanced education.
That's about a fifth, a substantial amount.</p>
<p>There are more important things to realize here:</p>
<ol>
<li> What are the beliefs of the students?</li>
<li> Are the professors imposing their views on the students? I had a professor at a summer college course who was a SOCIALIST, a political science professor at that! I am fairly conservative. We got along just fine, because he, as a professor, understands what it means to be BOTH liberal and conservative, and encourages the growth of students, not the brainwashing.</li>
<li> Colleges in general are liberal</li>
</ol>
<p>I could give less of a damn if a college's professor is liberal or conservative. Especially since i'm going into a major (engineering) where political orientation doesn't make a difference.</p>
<p>More liberal professors? I guess they're smarter then. Big deal. What, are we going to have Affirmative Action for conservatives now? It's not like they intentionally choose liberal professors over conservative ones. They're just more qualified.</p>
<p>What did Bush screw up? Go watch Fahrenheit 9/11</p>
<p>Michael Moore is a scholarly fellow</p>
<p>Farenheit 9/11 is a joke, and so is the Democrat party.</p>
<p>ahaha fahrenheit 9/11....plz</p>
<p>dude farenheit 9/11 is full of fallacies , don't get me started, secondly, most college students are liberal and become generally more conservataive later in ife. President Lehman is the biggest liberal I have ever met....don't fool yourself into thnking that more intelligent people are liberals because they are not...in fact, it is just the opposite....liberals suck</p>
<p>"It's not like they intentionally choose liberal professors over conservative ones. They're just more qualified."</p>
<p>Most conservatives wouldn't want to spend all of their time living in liberal la-la land anyway.</p>
<p>I consider myself liberal, but even I thought Farenheit 9/11 was a lot of bull. You have to look at it objectively.</p>
<p>Honestly, i'll go one step further and say that liberals have an easier chance of getting hired at ultraliberal colleges like Cornell. If you're a social science professor, the administration is going to look to your research to see how qualified you are. Well, if the person's research reflects conservativism, the administration...with their liberal preconceptions...would think the person close-minded and not up-to-date on developments as compared with a liberal professor who presents more agreeable viewpoints.</p>
<p>This whole thread is hilarious. You guys sound like Cornellians already.</p>
<p>umm conservatives just face up to it liberals are smarter, is it any wonder so many of the profs are liberal.</p>
<p>As a prospective math major, I am going to analyze the logic of the aforementioned stmt by sempitern.</p>
<p>Given:
Professors tend to be liberal
Conservative profs are scarce
Prove:
Liberal implies smarter than conservative</p>
<p>I cant for the life of my work that one out. :)</p>
<p>I'll tell you one thing and there isn't necessarily anything wrong with it. Conservatives and their beliefs tend to favor non-academia positions whereas it is the opposite for some libbies. This does not mean libbies are smarter than conservatives. I hate blanket statements.</p>
<p>I couldn't have put it better myself, hockeygenius. Many of the most intelligent professors are liberal, but many of the most successful business moguls are conservative. (I say that, of course, meaning in SOME instances, not all.) Certain political ideologies are attracted to different areas.</p>
<p>ok, to finally put to rest the controversy, here is the actual quote from my AP Gov textbook " studies going back over half a century seem to show that attending college has a big impact on political attitudes, usually making them more liberal. College students are more liberal that the population generally, and students at the most prestigious or selective colleges are the most liberal of all... the level of political information one has is the best single predictor of being liberal. The political disposition of professors is in part the result of the kinds of people who become college teachers, but it is also the result of the nature of intellectual work. Intellectuals require freedom to explore new or unpopular ideas and thus tend to be strong supporters of civil liberties.... college students who fo on to get a postgraduate degree tend to become more liberal than those who stop with a BA degree"</p>
<p>Finally, there you have it all you reactionaries out there. btw my aP Gover Book is "American Government by Wilson and Dilulio, 8th editition. Go check out the facts yourself (chapter 5)</p>
<p>During my senior year of high school, the young democrats association in my district hosted a book burning party for that book because of its conservative overtones. You can hardly reference a high school textbook as intellectual fact, even if some of what it intails makes sense or not.</p>