Did we shoot ourselves in the foot with college kids?

[NNguyenMD]

When I left college not long ago, I could tell that the Rightward Student Organizations were getting more powerful, but I think that they were only able to do so by playing heavily off their resentment of the powergrip that our left-leaning student organizations were (which I assure you was a ficticious notion).

So are these "College Republicans" relying on some fantasy perception that they are being persecuted and screwed by the academic left?

I had a college professor for a few American Literature classes who was just an incredible instructor and proud liberal from hailing Michigan. We had a conservative student in our class who was very vocal about her conservative views (she reads her Lynn Cheney Children's books to her son) but they were always respectful in classroom discussion and probably got a long with each other better than anyone else in the class.

I personally think that they're making it all up, if anything I would think that college professors would enjoy reading papers challenging their views than realizing all year that he had been preaching to the choir.

Maybe the real reason that these conservative students feel so much pressure to agree with their professors is because they are too cowardly to actually make the challenge. If they get ridiculed in class for voicing their ideas, well I'm sorry "pobrecitas" but part of debating and critical discussion is learning how to effectively structure and articulate sound arguments. If they don't like the way that the class and instructor reacts to them, then maybe that means that they need more practice debating. Not everybody is going to hold your hand in college and giving you a pity trophy for trying.

If the perception is that academics are indoctrinating students to a specific political view, well maybe thats because the students whom they are influencing already felt that way from the begining, and feel inspired to learn more about whats going on in the world.

Once again...I grow discouraged at the tone...

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-anderson28jan28,0,5967567.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions