Campus Newspaper Confab

We love campus radicals. We really do. They always tickle our funny bone for reasons they'd never even consider. FrontPage magazine has an article up about UC at Santa Cruz's "Women's Studies" dept. using their official newsletter (titled "The Wave") to promote blatantly partisan activism. On the state's dime, at that. For example,

Bettina Aptheker, then chair of Women's Studies, set the political tone in her "Chair's Message". She boasted about all the events that the department had initiated and co-sponsored in response to the tragedy of September 11, giving special praise to a talk by a lesbian/gay rights activist who called for "a progressive coalition to counter the right-wing offensive now governing US politics."

In addition, The Wave has promoted activities such as the "Faculty Against War," and highlighted promotions such as "10 Reasons Why Women Should Oppose the US 'War on Terrorism.'" Chairwoman Aptheker also organized an all-day "teach-in" against the Iraq War, and praised USSC students who had screamed and protested military recruiters off campus a couple weeks before.

Us CN Confab fellows have been pondering activities and groups that right-leaning professors (those that actually exist, that is) and students can promote ... on the state's dime, too, to at least give the illusion of partisan "fairness." Let's take a gander:

• College Students Against Political Proselytizing in the Classroom. Why, you may query, is this a right-leaning sort of group? Well, frankly, we've only ever seen conservatives express concern about overt partisanship in college lecture halls. If you know of any liberal student, group or especially professor (of a major university) who has vehemently dissented from this oft-correct stereotype, please let us know.
  
• Americans for Anti-Bullshit Speech. This also should apply to both conservatives and liberals; however, on college campuses, the bullshit regarding speech clearly originates from the liberal sphere of influence. Words like "diversity," "racism," "bigotry," "tolerance" etc. should all mean what they actually mean.
  
• Students for the First Amendment. You'd think this would be a no brainer, too. But many leftist students and profs think that the First Amendment merely perpetuates the current "patriarchal oppressive order." Y'know, because those nasty white guys still have the right to say what they wish.
  
• Students United Against Radical Islamic Terror. Even though this is the current [major] enemy of the United States and the West today, such a group protesting this enemy would face severe oppostion on campus. Because, after all, we cannot offend Muslim students on campus (one wonders how they'd be "offended" unless they sympathized with Islamic radical terrorists). In addition, any good leftist on campus knows that the principal defiler of the world order today is the United States!

If you have any ideas for similar campus groups you'd like to see, please let us know. We'll post it immediately.