Douchebaggery 101

"UCLA students urged to expose 'radical' professors"

I'm sorry, but if in college you're at a point where just because a teacher says something or has you read something it becomes an unquestioned part of your core thoughts and assumptions, you deserve to be "indoctrinated" by whichever point of the political spectrum can get to you first.

I don't know whether this is patronizing, or giving students too much credit. I can't attest to the climate in California's universities, but here, a significant number of students don't even show up to a given lecture, more don't bother to listen and virtually everyone effectively forgets everything that was said half an hour after the relevant exam.

I'm also tired of conservatives calling for mandated "balance" - if you want meaningless, perfunctory, two-equally-valid-opposing-sides- to-everything information, just turn on your television. And nothing externally applied is keeping conservatives out of higher education to add voices instead of trying to silence others. (Except maybe standards of scholarly worth.) There's a decent amount of money there, too - one would think they'd be all over it.