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Yawn. I've been to college 30 years ago, and I've been to college now. Nothing has changed. The point is that colleges are tenure-based hierarchies in which professors with tenure can do what they want and say what they want. Thirty years ago, I took a lot of political science courses in a department run by an extremely conservative guy who only liked to give tenure to people who agreed with him. We a few liberal instructors, but mainly as nontenured lecturers.
Now, 30 years later, the worm has turned and the old guys (or girls) in charge are liberals, and you young conservatives are talking about how unfair and awful it is and that's why you dropped out of college. Yeah, right.
The point is that college is a very conservative institution, and always has been, in the sense that once somebody gets tenure they can pretty much do and say as they want without fear; and they don't have to be reasonable, if they don't want to. 30 years ago, the conservatives who'd gotten tenure in the 40s and 50s were in charge, even though I thought they were out of step with the times. Now, in the new millenium, you all think it's horrible that libs who got in 30 years ago are in charge. But it's just the nature of the beast.
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