At Brandeis, an associate professor of American history, Jerry Cohen, says he e-mailed [student Mary-Alice] Perdichizzi and told her that he admired her courage after he saw she had put up Tea Party fliers. It is healthier for students who disagree with Tea Party principles to actually engage with their fellow students than to whack at straw men, he says.
“Whether it will prove to be a positive presence on campus or not, I think that overwhelmingly -- and notwithstanding the habitual use of the word diversity four times per sentence coming out of the administration -- there’s very little real commitment to intellectual diversity,” Cohen says.
“To the extent that a Republican Party and Democratic Party can have clubs on a campus, I can see no reason not to have a Tea Party on campus,” says William Kline, an assistant professor of liberal and integrative studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield.
Indeed. More, please. Faster, please. Campuses should be places where different ideas are vigorously debated! PS: Professor Cohen gets extra brownie points from me for also managing to take a potshot at the edu-crats in his response.
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