Young conservatives will be all alone at Reagan University.

[G_j]

(ha ha ha!) :eyes:


Degrees Of Separation
by Ben Hubbard
Young conservatives will be all alone at Reagan University.
http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/10322

Ben Hubbard is deputy director for outreach at the Center for American Progress.


Right-wingers often say they are victims of liberal bias on campus. Perhaps that's why they are planning a Ronald Reagan University, a sprawling 200-acre, $850 million academic oasis outside Denver, Colo., as reported by The Washington Post.

But considering the mileage and publicity young conservatives get from exploiting the controversy they create in deploring "political correctness" at American colleges, it's a wonder that they want their own university.

There won't be much for conservatives to disagree with at Reagan U. The young and impressionable "Gippers" won't take courses in women's studies or postmodern literature. They'll study their university namesake's voodoo economic and Cold War diplomatic principles. They'll learn the benefits of massive budget deficits and triple-dip recessions; how to wage war in small island countries and fund right-wing anti-revolutionaries through illegal weapons sales to bloody theocrats; they'll study how trees create air pollution and practice telling tales of welfare queens. Reagan U will even have a performing arts school, "to reflect the president's long movie career," according to Terry Walker, the founding president of the proposed school. Presumably, students will learn the value of camera-ready earnestness and how to package their extreme policies with an affable, all-American wink.

This little utopia for the young Right will have no problem filling its classrooms, but then what? What happens when young conservatives have a campus all to themselves? Will they finally have to admit that "liberal bias" has been a conscious weapon of self-promotion, a red herring that falsely portrays young conservatives as victims of leftist duplicity?

David Horowitz is the former '60s activist who came out as a conservative—or at least as an opportunist—with a highly publicized 1985 Washington Post article, "Lefties for Reagan." He's the most adept self-promoter of conservative victimhood on campus.
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[Old and In the Way]

1. They'll probably need to succumb to a frontal lobotomy as part of

the entrance requirement. Talk about preparing your kids for failure....Ronald Reagan University, giving new relevance to "Bonzo Goes To College".

[opihimoimoi]

2. OMG, its SPREADING, this foolish notion of Conservatism is SPREADING

Where is the Weed Be Gone? Agent Orange? Paraquat?

[kskiska]

3. I thought Nancy just said no

Maybe this was written before that, or they're going ahead anyway?