How Free Speech Died on Campus… or Liberals are Most Authoritarian?
				November 20, 2012
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How Free Speech Died on Campus…
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Liberals are Most Authoritarian?
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A young activist (Lukianoff) describes how universities became the most authoritarian institutions in America:
Click image to go to the Wall Street Journal article:
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Excerpts:
The trouble is that students are usually intimidated into submission. The startling majority of students don’t bother. They’re too concerned about their careers, too concerned about their grades, to bother fighting back…
A 2010 survey by the American Association of Colleges and Universities found that of 24,000 college students, only 35.6% strongly agreed that “it is safe to hold unpopular views on campus.” When the question was asked of 9,000 campus professionals—who are more familiar with the enforcement end of the censorship rules—only 18.8% strongly agreed.
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Syte Reitz grew up in Queens, New York, in a family of Lithuanian immigrants who fled Nazi and Soviet domination during World War II.  Her education includes a Ph.D. in Biochemistry, and post-doctoral work at Princeton University.  Syte left her job as an Assistant Professor at Oakland University, Michigan, to devote herself to raising her children, and ultimately homeschooled them  through the end of high school.  She is a member of Madison's Cathedral Parish.


