Wednesday, January 12, 2005
This article is fairly optimistic, but it will be some time before today's generation become professors and then start getting tenure before the real power begins to shift and colleges start to balance out their ideological indoctrination a bit better.
FrontPage Magazine: Conservative Students Talk Back on Campus by Brian C. Anderson
Other conservative organizations, ranging from gun clubs (Harvard’s has more than 100 students blasting away) to impudent newspapers and magazines, are budding at schools everywhere—even at Berkeley, crucible of the sixties’ student Left. And right-of-center speakers invited by these clubs are drawing large and approving crowds. “At many schools, those speeches have become the biggest events of the semester,” Time reports. One such talk at Duke by conservative author and former Comedy Central host Ben Stein, notes Time, attracted “a bigger crowd than the one that had come to hear Maya Angelou two months earlier.”...