Walk onto any college campus, and you'll be bombarded with the buzzword "diversity." But the faculty lounge is to intellectual diversity what a Debbie Boone concert is to racial diversity.
Last week, I presented readers information I dug up from Federal Election Commission reports demonstrating just how far outside the mainstream Ivy League faculty and administrators are. Donations to John Kerry exceeded donations to George W. Bush by $32 to $1 at Harvard and $11 to $1 at Yale.
Critical feedback I have received at lectures, and online, counters that the Ivy League schools are all located in blue states, making preferences for Kerry among employees unsurprising. Additionally, it is noted that the political eccentricities of Ivy League pedagogues hardly indicts the entire academy as a leftist intellectual ghetto.
Fair enough. With these criticisms in mind, I investigated the FEC data on employee giving at several large, public universities in red states. Guess what? They too exhibited an overwhelming bias for Senator Kerry over President Bush in the 2004 election.
At Indiana University, employees gave $11 to Kerry for every $2 they gave George W. Bush. Indiana's voters, on the other hand, went for Bush by a 3 to 2 margin over Kerry. President Bush won North Carolina 56 percent to 44 percent. Contributions from University of North Carolina employees went $11 to $1 in Kerry's favor. Oklahoma ballots swung 2 to 1 for Bush; University of Oklahoma dollars swung 2 to 1 for Kerry. Bush eked out a victory among New Mexico voters, but got trounced at the University of New Mexico, where employee giving favored Kerry by a $7 to $1 ratio. Ditto for Kentucky, where inhabitants of the Bluegrass State favored Bush, but the eggheads at the state's flagship university favored Kerry $7 to $1.
The bias may not be as pronounced as at a Dartmouth or a Brown, but it's there and it's overwhelming.
Dan, I'm sorry to see you're confused about the word 'diversity'. Diversity means: populating campuses with students from every demographic background in direct proportion to their representation in the poplulation at large. Diversity does NOT mean hiring anyone who is a fire-breathing conservative like yourself. You're the devil!
[NOTE: The above is intended as satire. If any of you reactionaries out there think I am being serious, I will weep a tear for your deaf ear.]
Dave is extremely misguided and lacks the intellectual level to understand what Dan is explaining. Universities have become leftists brain washing facilities. Dave sees group think as all right to have a left-wing lopsided view of of the world. I see it as dangerous group think, which lacks diversity of thought. Dave, look up the word diversity and while you are at, the word bigot, which most leftists elitist are. Dan has it right and the proof
