Subject: Liberal Campuses? Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:25:05 -0600 Message-ID: <B14120EE5C432443B21102F7925DAD0201275A8F@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Hale, C. Kate" <HALECL@uwec.edu>
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1201-31.htm
Below is the opening of an article from Common Dreams, originally from
today's Star-Tribune. I think this bears discussion--perhaps when SFPJ
meets again? The URL will take you to the complete article.
Kate Hale
English
Nothing Sinister About Liberal Campuses
by Steven Lubet
Conservative activists are on the march, determined to expose hotbeds of
liberal influence wherever they find (or even suspect) them. Their
latest target is higher education, one of the few corners of American
life where liberal ideas still hold sway.
Indeed several recent studies have confirmed that Democrats greatly
outnumber Republicans -- by ratios as much as 7-1 -- on many university
faculties. This revelation has caused outrage in conservative quarters,
where it is seen as evidence of liberal manipulation, and worse.
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