More on Nutty Professors
Check out this little op-ed piece from yesterday's Washington Post. It's titled, fittingly and amusingly, "Hey, Profs, Come Back to Earth."
Well, there's been all sorts of shenanigans on campuses lately, and I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of reading about them in the news -- and tired of seeing far Left radical academics make academics in general look bad. I am an academic too, and those people don't speak for me, dang it!
Anyway, check out this blurb from the WaPo piece:
| Colleges have long been hotbeds of political agitation, of course. But where it was once students who did the acting out, as they spread their intellectual and philosophical wings, now the professors and administrators are more likely to be playing politics -- and more and more Americans with college-age kids are getting fed up with it. In 18 years of in-the-trenches experience counseling kids on their college choices, I've never seen the unhappiness as widespread as it is today. If colleges don't tone down the politics, and figure out how to control ballooning costs, they run the risk of turning off enough American consumers that many campuses could marginalize themselves right out of existence. |
Go read the whole thing.