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2005-03-16 Home Front: Culture Wars

Lefties Are Eating Their Own - Harvard Faculty Give Summers No-Confidence Vote

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Posted by BigEd 2005-03-16 1:38:11 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A sad situation all around. When I was in school waaaaay back in the '70s even in Alabama there were some signs that the extreme liberals were making their presence felt. Until just a few months ago I hadn't realized just how far off the edge of the earth Acedemia has fallen. I didn't enter college until after my military service and there were a lot of us Vets there. It really ammused us to see how a lot of the young students were so easily swayed by the socialist leanings and outright lies of some of the "Professors". What made us angry, though, was the contempt these people held for those of us who didn't accept their bullshit as gospel. These self appointed "holier than thou" weinerheads had never ventured out past the halls of academia to actually experience the causes they were fervently espousing when we had ventured to the Halls of Montezuma, so to speak.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-03-16 9:11:35 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:11:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Just one more reason a degree from this school is nothing special.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-03-16 9:19:59 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-03-16 9:19:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 "I'd rather be governed by the first 200 names out of the Boston phone book than the Harvard faculty."
- Wm. F. Buckley

Posted by mojo 2005-03-16 10:19:22 AM|| 2005-03-16 10:19:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 mojo - Great quote, lol! Buckley, King of Droll, crusher of trolls, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-03-16 10:22:18 AM|| 2005-03-16 10:22:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 By his statements, Sammers have shown that he is not one of their own.

Posted by gromgorru 2005-03-16 11:00:37 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:00:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The faculty has gone a step too far this time and attracted attention the Corporation will not appreciate. I would imagine the letters of support are flooding into Summers office from those who count in the real world. It will be interesting to see the response.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 11:31:56 AM|| 2005-03-16 11:31:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Just my thought, Mrs. D.

Posted by too true 2005-03-16 12:34:48 PM|| 2005-03-16 12:34:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I like the original story when a Woman Professor had to flee the discussion because it offended her so much. Excuse my non-PC comment: "But isn't that just like a woman to run away." I bet she is a pushover in class, she obviously doesn't have any kind of debating or thinking skill.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-03-16 2:33:55 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:33:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The main mistake the Harvard faculty is making here is assuming that anyone outside of their little tiny world really gives a shit about this situation.

Posted by tu3031 2005-03-16 2:52:14 PM|| 2005-03-16 2:52:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Trailing Daughter #1 is 14. In four more years she starts college. Between the LLL nonsense and the rabid antisemitism pretending merely to be anti-Zionism, I'm starting to wonder if there will be any place I can safely send her (especially as she is really enjoying learning to use the Bo staff and nunchucks. And of course she is opinionated, and not terribly patient with fools,or those who think they are entitled to attack her physically).

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-16 5:39:19 PM|| 2005-03-16 5:39:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 This will help you find the Right College. It is a pretty good survey of the state of everything you're worried about. And by and large, you're right to be worried. The choices are between the awful, the bad and the USMA. Somehow I can't imagine any of the trailers being defenceless.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 5:55:07 PM|| 2005-03-16 5:55:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 You might also want to check out this website and the book that inspired it. The author has turned the initial success of the book into a second, very lucrative, I'm sure, career. But he was able to do so bbecasue the initial book is so very good. Those are the two best books that you don't usually hear about.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 6:01:15 PM|| 2005-03-16 6:01:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 TW - Michelle Malkin posts about a college you'd probably feel safe with:

Reader Richard Davis just heard on the radio (Michael Smerconish, WPHT Philadelphia) an interview with Widener University President Dr. James Harris.
According to Davis, Harris said Widener will begin giving four-year full scholarships to children whose military parent was killed in either Iraq or Afganistan.
The program, called "Widener Cares," will give away four scholarships each year.

Might be the type of administration and faculty you'd feel more comfortable with.

Posted by Phitle Criter4927 2005-03-16 6:47:14 PM|| 2005-03-16 6:47:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Trailing wife....
don't send her to Wheaton College - its too boring for a young person here in Wheaton.

Don't send her to UCLA - its become a bit wacko.

The younger son loves MIZZOU.... but then he's a reporter type.

Posted by 3dc 2005-03-16 7:45:13 PM|| 2005-03-16 7:45:13 PM|| Front Page Top

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