Do you know a RW Professor?

[ck4829]

Are you tired of hearing about Liberal Bias in Universities?

It's time to steal the Far Right's Resources!

Using this, you can lodge a complaint against those 'liberal' professors!

:evilgrin:

http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/comp/default.asp

[xchrom]

1. there's only three of them.

normally right wingers aren't bright enough to make phd.

those three are very, very busy.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

2. Three?

thats giving them far too much credit :evilgrin:

[liberal N proud]

3. To be a professor requires thinking

RWingers don't.
Therefore one must conclude there really can't be any RW Profs.

[noahmijo]

9. They just apply at Bob Jones Univ.

[Marie26]

12. I went to a very conservative college

and STILL almost all my professors were liberals. I do think the right-wing is right when they say there's a liberal bias in academia - they just don't pause to ponder why so few right-wingers manage to get a graduate degree.

[bbgrunt]

19. not if you're in a business school.

getting keys to the academy does not necessarily require any skills beyond knowing on which side your bread is buttered and how to play the game.

The adage that the fish rots from the head down applies to everything in this country. 5 years of this administration (and 25 years starting with reagun) has left a significant stink in many institutions including higher education.

[mike_c]

4. I can honestly say that NONE of my colleagues is a RWer....

Not one. A couple are pretty socially conservative-- and both are incidentally first generation Americans from very paternalistic cultures, but even those are more liberal than anyone I'd characterize as RW. But most of my colleagues are like me-- well educated, and MUCH more liberal than most Americans. Virtually everyone I work with falls comfortably well within the moonbat category. RW parents with children in college: be VERY afraid. Your kid WILL be encouraged to question authority.

[bbgrunt]

21. well, I would suggest that your discipline is one of those

with traditionally humanitarian values. Check out the business schools where the "virtues" of "free-enterprise" are worshipped.

[mike_c]

23. no doubt....

eom

[flamingyouth]

5. Fenris has a RW nutjob professor this semester

I'll have to save this for him. :D

[noahmijo]

6. I graduated from the business college at my University

Not ONE prof. was a winger amazingly. I had lots of bushbots in my classes (what do you expect) but there was only one professor I had that I suspect was a Republican but even if he was he gave a really fair shake at both sides of the spectrum, often times putting anti-bush cartoons on our tests for laughs, as well as as anti-Kerry cartoons on the overhead.

Ultimately even if the guy was a Republican I had to give him props for being truly open and fair.

[emulatorloo]

7. Idiotic Right Wing Straw Man:what college student pays attn to professors?

The far right is laughable.

[NoodleyAppendage]

8. Yes...and he is a sanctimonius, home-schooling, trodgolyte asshole.

...and a major hypocrite, who has a severe drinking problem (e.g., bottle of Jim Beam in his campus office for nips here-and-there), but is quick to bring down his wrath upon those who have similar problems or "weaknesses."

BTW - he's a graduate professor at LSU.

B

[Ernesto]

10. I had one when nixon was running for re-election

He kept telling us (Viet vets & assorted anti war types) that watergate was no big deal. He claimed that all politicians pull the same type of dirty tricks.
I learned that he was the chairman of the county repuke central committee (something he never mentioned). So I outed him in class. It was great: the brighter students jumped all over him. HA HA!
PS: He still gave me an A & we all know what happened to tricky dick.

[melody]

11. that is what the wingnuts don't get

That "liberal bias" doesn't connote some conspiracy against conservatives. That liberal bias is a sign of an educated mind. The so-called "conservatives" aren't bright enough to see the difference.

[meganmonkey]

13. Oh, do I !!! Yes I do!

I had a social philosophy prof who was VERY RW.

First day of class (it was a class of 4 people) he was talking about 'progress' as a given, and as a positivie, and when I asked for clarification of what he meant by 'progress' and why we should assume it was good, he asked me what my major was. I told him it was sociology. His response:

"You're a socialist, you'll never understand this"

:o

Excuuuuuse me, motherfucker? This is a PHILOSOPHY class. I can't ask you to clarify your definitions and assumptions? Then you can BITE MY ASS.

Needless to say, in a class of only 4 students, he was forced to deal with me as the indepenent, intelligent thinker I am (;) ) and I ended up getting an A in the class, despite my pro-affirmative action term paper which he TOTALLY disagreed with but my argument was SO TIGHT he couldn't find a flaw.

Oh, those were the days... :)

[tomg]

14. Actually, I have a few colleagues

who are fairly conservative.Would I consider them "right wingers," in the troglodyte, anti-intellectual, yahoo mold. Of course not. Would I consider them classic conservatives or traditional libertarians who think well and help me think better by forcing me to refine my positions? Absolutely ( and none of us, to my knowledge, penalize students for their political views - sloppy thinking, right or left yes; reprehensible poliics, not really)

Most college professors, at least in the Liberal Arts are, well, liberal. Iin a way, it is self-selecting process. Getting a Ph.D is time-consuming, a risky economic investment ( considering the relatively few jobs out there), and low-paying, relative to other occupations ( starting Ph.D's in my field at a private regional institution are around 36K). Most of us don't teach at Harvard or Yale, and we have teaching, not research loads. And tenure is a bitch. Unlike lawyers, if we don't make partner, we can't start our own university.

Not too many twenty-something Bush Republicans are going to seriously consider spending eight or nine years of their lives studying the manuscripts of a minor British poet on the outside chance of getting a gig at some second rate institution for 35K a year. I, on the other hand, can't think of anything I would rather do, and to help students to learn how to think - glorious ( edited out 900 pages of why I love to teach).

Oh, and I am so damn tired of hearing about "Liberal Bias in Academia." How about "Corporate/ Fascist/Republican Bias on Boards of Trustees." That is where the real power is. Yeah, liberals control the fine arts department at SUNY Purchase; Candace Russey, one of David Horowitz's sidekicks, just controls the rest of SUNY.

edit: typo

[OrlandoGator]

15. My God....the intellectual elite has been hijacked by liberals!

Something must be done.

[bobbieinok]

16. (class of 61) when I was in college + grad school: humanities usually

liberal

engineering usually conservative

science: you couldn't predict

[ultraist]

22. My major was SW so my professors were all very liberal

But my husband was a Business major and he had some conservative asshole professors.

[alarcojon]

17. I got into it (over e-mail) with the faculty advisor to College Repugs

at my school over a teach-in we held at the two-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion. He was a business prof, and a drinker of the Kool-aid. We had to agree to disagree, but he was sputtering by the time I was done with him.

[kweerwolf]

18. I had a very right-wing philosophy professor in college back in the '70s

He always wore a bow-tie and sometimes recorded his lectures on old reel-to-reel tapes to play for the class while he graded papers. Instead of dismissing us once the taped lecture was over, he'd fill out the rest of the tape with him playing accordian music. (That's no shit! I still get a sick feeling in my stomach anytime I hear "The Girl from Ipanema.")

Apart from him being such an ecentric campus "character," he was obsessed with tying every school of philosophy we studied to a discourse on the superiority of capitalism. If you wanted to get decent grades, you had to parrot his ideas back to him ... no give-and-take of ideas there! And woe unto any student who dared to mention Marx.

Needless to say, I have thankfully forgotten anything I may have accidentally learned in that class.

[ultraist]

20. Bush won the majority of those who hold undergrad degrees

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html

College Graduate (26%) BUSH: 52% +1 KERRY: 46% 1%

Postgrad Study (16%) BUSH: 44% +0 KERRY: 55%

Just goes to show that the "liberal" colleges aren't having as much influence as they claim.

[kevinbgoode]

24. I had one in the past spring semester

and I got along quite well with him. . .only because I knew how to keep my mouth shut AND. . .I deliberately put the course on "audit" as soon as I knew about those political affiliations.

[MountainLaurel]

25. Alas, I do

I found one of the physician professors I work with on one of those "Christian Doctors of America" lists.