Originally posted by Roughneck
Not too serious today... why? Where would you like to demarcate between the two? Tenure?
well, if you're all the way to the point of considering a student union (of all things) to be part of academia, then i guess we can start wondering about the political disposition of the average student. at which point if the average student leans left, then either the average republican is relatively uneducated or 'left' isn't as left as some of y'all are thinking.
but most of the rhetoric so far has been that universities are disconnected from the center because of academic bias -- but if you're now arguing that students themselves share that bias, then i think instead we can just give thanks for our overly private system of higher education and say that the free market of ideas is expressing the will of the people. praise capitalism!
but i'm guessing you weren't trying to argue my point, so now i'm wondering if you just don't know what a student union is. no, they don't get tenure.
Not too serious today... why? Where would you like to demarcate between the two? Tenure?
well, if you're all the way to the point of considering a student union (of all things) to be part of academia, then i guess we can start wondering about the political disposition of the average student. at which point if the average student leans left, then either the average republican is relatively uneducated or 'left' isn't as left as some of y'all are thinking.
but most of the rhetoric so far has been that universities are disconnected from the center because of academic bias -- but if you're now arguing that students themselves share that bias, then i think instead we can just give thanks for our overly private system of higher education and say that the free market of ideas is expressing the will of the people. praise capitalism!
but i'm guessing you weren't trying to argue my point, so now i'm wondering if you just don't know what a student union is. no, they don't get tenure.






























