Hippies Lose Protest Movement to Campus Conservatives (WTF???)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

Found this while cruising for LBN. The dumb fuck includes his email addy.

Read it and cry for the kool aid drinkers.

From Yale to the University of North Carolina, liberal academia is being challenged by a new generation of conservative leadership. Credible tales of professors grading down conservative students have always run rampant. Biased lectures remain the unremarkable norm. One variable has changed, however. Liberal academia lacks its traditionally receptive audience.

From Yale to the University of North Carolina, liberal academia is being challenged by a new generation of conservative leadership. Credible tales of professors grading down conservative students have always run rampant. Biased lectures remain the unremarkable norm. One variable has changed, however. Liberal academia lacks its traditionally receptive audience.

During the opening weeks of the Iraq war, professors were shocked by the absence of antiwar fervor among their pupils. Leading up to the 2004 elections, record numbers of undergraduates joined the College Republicans and other conservative organizations. Ingenious student protests, such as Berkeley’s affirmative action bake sale and Duke’s “W” (Bush) T-shirts (worn in Cameron Indoor Stadium during televised Blue Devil basketball), have garnered national attention and support.

This is not to say that all collegiate scholars are voting Republican. I simply state the obvious premise that our current student population is markedly more conservative than their counterparts in professorial and administrative positions. The differing generational perspective has caused noticeable friction between the scholars of past and present, and this ideological friction is the root cause of the upsurge in media attention to the subject of liberal bias on campus. Our professors’ passion for Marxism, Stalinism, multiculturalism, moral relativism, atheism, and the Democrat Party is no more profound in the new millennium than it was in the old. The sea change has occurred within a different body politic: the lowly freshmen.

Today, incoming students are challenging their professors’ supposed monopoly on wisdom. Where their predecessors might have acquiesced or even agreed, the modern student body has objected. At UNC-Greensboro, the resident College Republican chapter protested their school’s gay “Pride Week” by organizing their own “Morals Week” to run simultaneously. Joined by politicians and reporters, the College Republicans debated their liberal counterparts to a standstill.

At UNC, a Christian student was lambasted by his professor in a class-wide e-mail for expressing his personal belief that homosexuality is immoral. Back in the day, the poor fellow might have been without recourse, quieted by his own fear. However, the student fought back, and with the help of U.S. Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.) the offending professor was punished for violating his civil rights.

More recently, UNC Chancellor James Moeser arbitrarily changed his university’s policy on the recognition of religious, student organizations. He declared that limiting membership to one religious group is nothing less than sanctioned discrimination, and prohibited the practice. In line with his new policy, UNC refuses to recognize Alpha Iota Omega Christian Fraternity because the group declines to admit non-Christians. In the past, Chancellor Moeser might have had the final say, but today’s Tar Heels are not so easily silenced. The group has resorted to the courts, and seeks an injunction against the new policy. Again, Congressman Jones has come to their aid, bringing national attention to the cause.

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[flamingyouth]

1. What a creepy essay

I wish my university had had "Morals Week" while I was there. I would have loved mocking it to no end.

[SHRED]

2. One question:

Why isn't his 21 year old ass over in Iraq?

What an ignorant and manipulative youth he is. Such exaggerations with no sources.
For the less discerning among us he structures his sentences with language aimed at making him appear more intelligent than he really is.
An old CONservative trick.

[paineinthearse]

4. Faneuil Hall 1/3/05

Three days before the joint houses of congress met to ratify the electoral college vote, I attended the Boston rally sponsored by The Committee to ReDefeat the President. About mid way through the proceedings it struck me, 95% of the 300+ people there were 45 years old or older.

In a city of Colleges (Boston University, Boston College, Harvard, MIT, Emerson, Simmons, UMass, Suffolk, Boston State), I did not see more than a handful of students.

They'll come over when their arses start to get drafted.

[SHRED]

8. A draft would do it.

Not that I am in favor.

With a draft they'd have to hang up the cell phone and unplug the iPod.
That would get ugly. There would be protests.

:nuke:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. He's much too important to be sent to Iraq...

He can do so much more over here when he isn't with Buffy at the Regatta.

[NNguyenMD]

3. frightening that a small group of a-holes can be so effective, but I have

agree that student apathy concerning social issues is pretty widespread, probably the reason why a small, but growing, group of conservatives are able to be so successful with their temper tantrums.

They get emboldened by their conservative leadership and support, we need to do the same with our liberal campus groups. In college not long ago it was always the conversative jerks whining and bitching who made the most noise, we had people to counter them but each year they seem to get smaller in numbers or less willing to fight.

It really is just a matter of will and who flinches first. If they theaten to take it to the judge, I say we tell them "screw you jerk, choose your weapon and I'll see you in court." They have so many resources and so many people, I tihnk its important to stop them in their tracks before they grow any bigger.

[ComerPerro]

5. About "grading down": maybe their work is just sub-standard

I knew some conservatives from my Comp classes and Politics classes who bitched because they got shitty grades. But, I saw some of their writings (we did a lot of peer editing) and they were absolute shit. Besides, other conservatives in the classes got A's.

Ann Coulter was on the radio here in KC about a month ago bitching about how hard it was for her to get her stuff published, because "The liberals who dominate the media and publicshing will only publish your work if you soften up and throw them a bone".

No, Ann, I am pretty sure that any problems you may have had with publishers and editors are because your writings are idiotic, crudely constructed, poorly written, and exhibit an unparalleled disregard for facts and logic.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

14. You hit the nail on the head.

Think about it, someone who says that the creation of life is so complicated that it has to have been created by "magic" isn't dealing with a full deck to begin with.

[Warpy]

7. If poor conservative students are being downgraded

why the heck don't those little crybabies learn to spell? Why don't they actually read their assignments and learn to THINK about them? Why do they think they can slide through 4 years of college on term papers they found already written on the net?

I know what the typical conservative student is like, and it isn't pretty. They think they can cheat their way through 4 years, get a diploma, and be ready to function in the real world on the strength of their "morals," which are limited to sex and only apply to other people.

Any professor who fails a conservative student for this attitude, course work, and ability is doing the kid a big favor.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

15. That would require thinking beyond remembering party lines.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. Then they'd get good grades and couldn't act as victims, silly. (nt)

[autorank]

9. "Sell on the news." This is sooooo old. What a loser.

This crap has been going on for some time but picked up steam in the early 90's. It is hardly new and the author is probably trying to prop up a dying trend. This is really pathetic. In any case, universities are meant to be places of dialog and debate, which implies two sides. The campus conservatives have, in some cases, resorted to tactics that have nothing to do with debate, to their great shame.

[me b zola]

10. Repukes out debate Dems? Oh, I doubt it.

"the College Republicans debated their liberal counterparts to a standstill."

What a joke! Every time I have 'sparred' with a repub they cannot follow a line of logic. Within three points they have either completely contradicted themselves, or have a huge gaping whole in their 'logic'. When challenged that their argument has lost all credibility, then they begin screaming.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. And they think that they've "won" because the liberal

does what you're supposed to do with brats in the midst of a temper tantrum--walks away.

[RaleighNCDUer]

11. the conservatives just want us to think it is new.

When I was in school in the 80s things weren't much different. Just 10 years earlier there were mass mobilizations for civil rights and against the war, but in '83 we had a big protest against the atrocities in El Salvador at UMC and all of 200 people showed up, on a campus of something like 18,000.

They keep shouting about how they are the poor oppressed majority. They know that nothing mobilizes people like a war, an unjust war, in which they might themselves have to fight. The right is pretending that the 'hippies' (it's been about 25 years since I've seen a hippie) still rule the campuses, when in fact they never did. The mass movement of the late 60s/early 70s was not just hippies taking over the campus, but the general populace not taking the government's lies anymore.

The faculty on campus has always been more liberal than the students on campus. Something to do with the result of higher education. The more history you know, the fewer lies you will accept. The students, coming from conservative backgrounds, hear liberal voices often for the first times in their lives. A small percentage of them take the liberal voice to heart. Most don't. I think that's the way it always has been.

What was the biggest, best organized youth movement in the 60s? Billy Graham's Campus Crusade. Ask anyone who was actually there, not the young republicans of today. They'll tell you. Nothing has changed.

Our hope, and their fear, is that the broad-based anti-war movement of those days can see a resurgence. I'm afraid it will take a lot longer, though, since the media is no longer reporting on what is really going on.

[bobbieinok]

16. Campus Crusade was founded by Bill Bright, NOT Billy Graham

[SoCalDem]

12. ..."Professors grading down conservatives"...?

So when Timothy Vanderwhosit writes a paper on Jesus' pet dinosaur, Jimmy, is the professor supposed to ignore the ignorance, and just grade on "punctuation and spelling"?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

13. lol...

I think that's the idea.

[yurbud]

17. wishful thinking and a willful attack

I've taught community college for seven years, and only half of this story is true: the right is trying to crack down on college professors, since campuses are one place the complacent might here something besides the Bush party line.

But the student half of the equation is not true, or at least the trend is in the opposite direction. When I started teaching, the biggest chunk of my students were apathetic, the second biggest were conservative, and a handful were liberal. Now I would say that's flipped. The biggest chunk are liberal because they can feel the squeeze of GOP budget priorities and see the draft on the horizon.

Those who spout the GOP talking points often get stony silence from their classmates instead of amens.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

18. God, I hope it's still that way.... But, damn, they have learned how to

make a lot of useless noise.

[K-W]

19. A vicious vocal minority covertly funded by conservatives.

Gee, should we be scared by right wing youth movements?

[geniph]

24. Seig Heil!

Hitler Jugend Uber Alles!

Oh crap, did I just break the Internet law of Hitler reference?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

25. Yes you did.

Seven Hail maries and a case of Bud.


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[Joanne98]

21. It's BS! They projecting an IMAGE of a movement.

They do this with everything. It's the OZ effect. If there's any movement among the young it's having cell phones permantley stuck on there ears. Conservatives will lose the next generation because they're LIARS. Not to worry.

[jpgray]

22. Meh. College Republicans are just more belligerent and better funded

The students by and large likely measure out to the same degree of apathy and ignorance that they've always had, precluding a strong stand either way.