"Jeff Rigby" wrote in message
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"HKrause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
College Faculties A Most Liberal Lot, Study Finds

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 29, 2005; Page C01


College faculties, long assumed to be a liberal bastion, lean further to
the left than even the most conspiratorial conservatives might have
imagined, a new study says.


The disparity is even more pronounced at the most elite schools, where,
according to the study, 87 percent of faculty are liberal and 13 percent
are conservative.


The most left-leaning departments are English literature, philosophy,
political science and religious studies, where at least 80 percent of
the faculty say they are liberal and no more than 5 percent call
themselves conservative, the study says.

Well, of course, smart people hang out with each other, and especially
enjoy the exchange of ideas. If you want to see conservatives exchanging
ideas, go to a NASCAR race.

At USF the smart people were on the HARD science side of the campus and
the Liberal arts side of the campus had the most muddle headed people. For
instance, my English literature professor was preaching communism in
class. In her class, those of us from the Hard science side of the campus
were telling her that communism wouldn't work as it went against too many
imperatives built into human beings to be a workable system. Remember this
was 1970 before the collapse of the communist governments.

It always irked me that there were different math and science courses
offered for hard science students and liberal arts students. They are
called the same but the liberal arts version is MUCH easier.

Good examples are physics, calculus, and especially anatomy. We had a
degree program at Purdue called Mechanical Engineering Technology. The
course names and descriptions were very similar to the ones that I took in
the bachelor of science in Mechanical Engineering program, but the actual
material and level of difficulty couldn't have been more different. Most of
their texts one the same ones I used in high school physics.



Same number of credit hour too but we would get zero credits for those
courses for our majors. I always found that courses offered on the liberal
arts side of the campus were very easy.

Me too.