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But, can you cite one single example of a professor being asked his or her political party affiliation before being hired?
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Oh, that's such a straw man. No one discriminates so overtly, these days. Smith College professor Stanley Rothman provides his perspective here, in an interview article entitled "Purging Conservatives from College Faculties":
<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=18118%5B/url%5D">http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=18118</a></p>
<p>There was another, younger Smith College professor who was denied tenure, because of his views. He was such a great teacher that the girls went to bat for him, and he got his tenure. He wrote several articles about his experience, which I will try to find when I return from tonight's commitments, if someone else doesn't do it first.</p>