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    We've all heard the stereotypical statements about how liberal the nation's college campuses are. My favorite was this one, "now that the Soviet Union has dissolved, the only place you'll find a communist is teaching at a U.S. university". Well, they've done a study and apparently the image of the left-leaning college professor is pretty accurate.

    DEEP BLUE CAMPUSES
    by Daniel J. Flynn

    American campuses are very different from the nation that surrounds them. The differences are especially profound when it comes to politics. The United States is closely divided between the two major parties. No such division exists on any major college campus...Deep Blue CampusesU.S. News and World Report’s 2004 college issue. Specifically, the booklet compares donations in the 2004 election cycle to the two major presidential candidates, George W. Bush and John Kerry. examines the political donations of employees at the top twenty-five national universities listed in

    Personally, I kinda don't think people should snooping into what candidates people give their money too. But since somebody did it anyway, I couldn't help but look. It's kind of interesting.

    The real question is why? Why are college professors so much more liberal than the population as a whole?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Destiny
    The real question is why? Why are college professors so much more liberal than the population as a whole?
    Dare I say it is probably because they are much more educated than the population as a whole.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Destiny
    The real question is why? Why are college professors so much more liberal than the population as a whole?
    They don't have to deal in reality. My econ professor taught Marxist economics, and that's what you had to regurgitate to get an A. Open minds, my ass. He couldn't have made it after three months trying to run a real business.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richard_Head
    Dare I say it is probably because they are much more educated than the population as a whole.

    Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hef
    Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
    Don't forget the corollary: Those that can't teach, administrate!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Destiny
    Don't forget the corollary: Those that can't teach, administrate!


    BWAHAHAHAHAHA

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    Ironically, student bodies are getting increasingly conservative...
    Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

    William F. Buckley, Jr.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casual Observer
    Ironically, student bodies are getting increasingly conservative...
    It's not ironic, it's pragmatic !

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    There's an old saying that talks about how a lot of people tend to get more conservative as the get older. Anybody know it?
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    Yes, but it's often wrongly attributed to Churchill. From Winston Churchill.org:

    If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain." There is no record of anyone hearing Churchill say this. Paul Addison of Edinburgh University makes this comment: "Surely Churchill can't have used the words attributed to him. He'd been a Conservative at 15 and a Liberal at 35! and would he have talked so disrespectfully of Clemmie, who is generally thought to have been a lifelong Liberal.
    Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

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    ^ Thanks CO
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jay Zeno
    They don't have to deal in reality. My econ professor taught Marxist economics, and that's what you had to regurgitate to get an A. Open minds, my ass. He couldn't have made it after three months trying to run a real business.
    Well, yea. And there is nothing wrong with that. Marxism was an economic theory and it certainly should be examined and understood.

    Whether you would try to implement it might be a bad idea though....

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