<p>Northwestern has a lot more republicans than I expected, but I think it's mostly b/c of the socio-economic backgrounds of its students ... the professors I'm sure are still quite liberal. and College Dems (woo hoo I'm an officer next year!) is the 3rd most heavily funded group on campus!</p>
<p>Uhm, supression of different ideas is the modus operenda of academic liberals and it not see this is to be completely blind. Take a look at this:</p>
<p>Where Are All The Free Speech Activists In Support Of Lawrence Summers?</p>
<p>Lawrence Summers, President of Harvard University, is currently being lambasted by the American media and by the faculty at Harvard University for some supposedly remarks he made *n his January 14 remarks, Summers repeatedly emphasized that he was "guessing," attempting to provoke and hoped to be proved wrong.
"So my best guess, to provoke you, of what's behind all this is that the largest phenomenon, by far, is the general clash between people's legitimate family desires and employers' current desire for high power and high intensity," Summers said at a National Bureau of Economic Research conference in Cambridge.
"In the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination," he said.
I do not think Lawrence Summers should have to apologize for these remarks, they were obviously meant to be inflamatory and to get the people at the conference thinking. That was why he began his statement with the words "TO PROVOKE YOU", he did not say it was something he believed, he said he was making a statement based on a (most probably flawed) logic and a guess which he (most probably) assumed would be quickly disproven.
But, even if we go out on a limb and assume that Lawrence Summers believed every word he was saying SO WHAT? Lawrence Summers is entitled to the same free speech as everyone else in America and being a sexist pig and making sexist comments is perfectly within his rights as an American.
To take a totally different tack let us look at someone else who has also been in the news recently for their inflamatory remarks. Professor Ward Churchill of the University of Colorado has been causing an uproar across the USA for the past couple of weeks due to an essay he wrote in which he rationalized the attacks and likened World Trade Center victims to the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann.
In his essay, Churchill used the incendiary words "little Eichmanns" to suggest that some of the Trade Center victims were like the notorious Nazi bureaucrat. He called them "a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire" who, like Eichmann, didn't kill anyone directly but were part of the infrastructure of an imperialist government.
Churchill posited that America's crimes abroad ultimately led terrorists to hijack and crash jetliners into symbols of America's military and economic might.
Now every free-speech activist in America is getting up and telling us that though we find his words despicable, Ward Churchill has the right to say or write whatever he wants. So Ward Churchill can spread his anti-American vitriol from coast to coast and theres nothing the University of Colorado or the American public can do about it.
But let us look back at President Lawrence Summers of Harvard who makes one sexist remark which he only made to be provocative and was not an indication of his true feelings on the matter and the whole world -- which is busy advocating free-speech for a treasonous, anti-American dreg of our society -- turns against him and attempts to get him fired.</p>
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<p>Any conservative seeking an excellent liberal arts education would relish four years at HSC.</p>
<p>"Northwestern has a lot more republicans than I expected, but I think it's mostly b/c of the socio-economic backgrounds of its students ... the professors I'm sure are still quite liberal. and College Dems (woo hoo I'm an officer next year!) is the 3rd most heavily funded group on campus!"</p>
<p>-True, but it’s more so that the speakers that the college Dems bring are more widely recognized than those of other groups, and are able to fill the seats. We in the student government don't really fund on cause or purpose, so the reason college Dems gets so much money from us has pretty much nothing to do with the fact that there are so many Democratic students on the campus.</p>
<p>heh, well as far as I know Ken Starr didn't sell out, so that might be an indicator of how popular Republicans are on campus .. or rather, how dedicated the Republicans on campus are. IMHO, 18 year old Republicans are sad people .. there is some truth to the saying 'if you're not a liberal when you're young .." </p>
<p>heh, i for one am a democrat for life, but i understand (to an extent) people's tendency to become more conservative as they grow older ... not that it makes any sense, but it's understandable.</p>
<p>"IMHO, 18 year old Republicans are sad people"</p>
<p>-How can a political science major say that? Shame on you.. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>hahaha shame on me?? b/c i identify with one political party over another? political science majors have consciences too you know!</p>
<p>oh and ... does my profile say I'm a poli sci major? i don't think it does ...</p>
<p>lilybbloom, you are really funny.</p>
<p>Notre Dame isn't as conservative as you'd think it be-approximately half of the student body voted for John Kerry in the last presidential election. In addition, they have gay alliance groups and hosted (or almost hosted) the Vagina Monologues and Queer film festival.</p>
<p>thank you!</p>
<p>Gee, I can't recall the last time that my alma mater, or most any other college administration (or student government) for that matter, told me whom to vote for.</p>
<p><em>snerk</em></p>
<p>I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Bob Jones University yet.</p>