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Rep. Tom Tancredo -- right-wing hater!
Rep. Virgil Goode -- right-wing hater!
Duke rape hoaxer Crystal Mangum -- OK!
What I want to know is when and how did the liberal elite take over Chapel Hill, N.C.? It's a state school best known for its championship basketball program, so how did it become as radical as Berkeley in 1968?
I had the same reaction when Orit Sklar and Ruth Malhotra started describing how they'd been threatened and intimidated by radical gay and Muslim student groups at Georgia Tech.
Georgia Tech? What Lewis Grizzard used to call "The North Avenue Trade School"? A school best known for its engineering program, its ACC basketball team and its "Ramblin' Wreck" fight song? I was born in Atlanta and one of my cousins graduated from Tech, and of all the places I least imagined would ever be taken over by the radical elite, it was Tech.
Radical Muslims at Tech? You're kidding me! And militant gay groups? Well, the coeds at Tech were always a bit on the homely side, so you could understand if the guys got kind of desperate, but . . .
Why is this kind of radicalism, which we had come to expect at elite schools, now trickling down into ordinary state universities? The most obvious answer is that big "CONSERVATIVES NEED NOT APPLY" sign hanging outside the personnel office at most universities for at least the past 30 years. People tend to avoid working in environments where they're not welcome, and so conservative-leaning youth have learned to get their bachelor's degrees and go to work in the private sector, leaving the graduate schools -- where the future faculty members are trained -- totally dominated by the Left.
Even if the trustees of a school like Tech or UNC wanted to hire conservative faculty members, where would they find them, given the rarity of conservatives in grad school? And you'll find that it's the faculty and grad students, not the undergraduates, who are the driving force of leftist radicalism on most campuses today.
Michelle Malkin has more about the UNC protests against Goode's appearance, including this totalitarian wienie:
Tren de Aragua illegal aliens in Aurora, Colorado take over another
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Stacy, the feminists were firmly in place in graduate schools of state universities 25 years ago. There was no place for non-feminist women on English department faculties then. I can only imagine how much worse it is now.
ReplyDeleteLeftist Parrot. I'm sure you noticed that the master of ceremony was using his iPhone as a teleprompter.
ReplyDeleteThe other problem is that universities flood graduate programs with foreign students for "diversity" and to keep stipend costs down. Foreign students are willing to take the lower stipends because it means citizenship at the end. Of course, many foreign students come from countries with little to no history of liberty. Instead they bring with them the typical Marxist ideas which are encouraged by the upper echelon of the university class.
ReplyDeleteMy contacts at Oscar Mayer in Madison are complaining that you liken this butthead to their dignified, all-beef wienies.
ReplyDeleteafter we take back the control of gubbermint, i propose that we have a show trial and throw them out of college. we can use the obama torture show trial as a model.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Chris L. said...
ReplyDeleteThe other problem is that universities flood graduate programs with foreign students for "diversity" and to keep stipend costs down. Foreign students are willing to take the lower stipends because it means citizenship at the end. Of course, many foreign students come from countries with little to no history of liberty. Instead they bring with them the typical Marxist ideas which are encouraged by the upper echelon of the university class.
Thu Apr 23, 09:21:00 AM
Aren't the vast majority of foreign grad students in the hard sciences, engineering or computer science? Hardly strong holds of the left. I'm not sure this comment bears has any relationship to reality.
Hi Stacy,
ReplyDeleteChapel Hill was tilted wall to the left of left when I was an undergrad there, back when the mastedons still roamed the bountiful fruited plains, or 1997, whichever was longer ago.
The DTH used to run the least flattering photo of Jesse Helms whenever he was in the news. And of course helms liked to remark that Chapel Hill was the state's largest unfenced in zoo. No love loss there.
Most of the students are regular kids from North Carolina looking for an education and a chance to see dook get whupped repeatedly in as many sports as possible. It's the very vocal fringe that draws the headlines.
I was one of those foreign graduate students apparently brought in for 'diversity' (according to Chris L.) I even went to UNC-Chapel Hill (Ph.D. 2002 in materials science). I can tell you that we foreigners didn't keep stipend costs down; we got paid exactly the same as domestic students. Also, grad school does not mean citizenship at the end. You're in the US on an F-1 visa which does nothing to help you get ahead in any way if you want to get a green card.
ReplyDeleteWayne Fontes is correct; that comment does not bear any relationship to reality.
Stacy,
ReplyDeleteI took the video at UNC and I went to UNC. I will tell you that most of the people there did not agree with the ranting guy. I actually got to speak after him. UNC isn't Berkley...there are some fringe groups, but all in all UNC does "dialogue". My whole point (see http://redemptivetobacco.wordpress.com) was that free speech afforded to guys like this from "moderates" (yes, he criticized moderates for being to soft - believe it or not) was not given to those with opposing thoughts. They use intimidation, violence and any means necessary to "shut them down". What he didn't realize (and he probably wasn't a UNC student) was that he was just giving ammo to groups that hold the views he wants to suppress. Thanks for the post.
I work at the Trade School (reference the numerous posts) and can personally vouch for the extreme diversity of the campus. So much so, that I am my own minority. And let me tell you something, none of these imported students know anything about housekeeping because they leave the student center dining area in a constant mess.
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