One for the “Duh” column

The New York Times has run an article, featuring Berkeley, discussing the low number of conservative-leaning professors in the college atmosphere. From the people who brought you the Pentagon Papers, a legacy of investagatory journalism continues.

If you ask me, people should stop bitching about it and accept it. Most people who are going to Berkeley chose to do so over other top schools, so they know what they are getting. No one going to Berkeley today arrived in their first year expecting the West Coast branch of Bob Jones University. To not receive a liberal spin on an education at Berkeley is like drinking Sprite out of a Pepsi bottle... it just doesn't make sense.

In addition, most people who argue that liberal educators are brainwashing the masses are neglecting the fact that most 18-year olds who are going to have any political opinion have it before they enter college. This is especially true now with the flood of media sources that distinctly support political ideologies. Liberal professors just provide cannon fodder for either side of the argument. And, students who come to learn social sciences, especially at Berkeley, also hopefully have the creative thinking skills to interpret and judge the information they are receiving, instead of just letting it be force fed to them. So isn't this continuous pandering over "fair educators" just making a mountain out of a molehill?Email This Post!