April 04, 2005
Campus Follies With David Horowitz
David Horowitz, the former Communist radical-turned conservative activist, writes today on Front Page Magazine regarding his latest speech at a college campus and how his appearances at schools often "invites" abuse from not just students, but Leftist faculty members. (Where do you think the students get their ideas from, Wal-Mart?) The following is how Horowitz responded to such interruptions during his speech:
Once the interruptions began, causing me to lose my train of thought as I responded, I realized that reflective intellectual discourse was going to be impossible and turned to polemic. Addressing the tenured radicals in the audience, I reminded them that schools had once been the ladders of opportunity for the poor. My own grandfather had come to this country with nothing, and earned $3 a week as a tailor, remaining poor his entire life. But the family had sent my father to public school and on to City College, a free school as well, and he had become a teacher enabling our family to enter the middle class.
But all that had changed. The tuition at Bowling Green -- $15,000 a year Ðdenied working class youngsters in the Toledo area the opportunity to get a shot at the American dream. ÒEighty percent of the school budget is salaries,Ó I said. ÒYou make between $60,000 and $100,000 a year. You teach on average two courses and spend six hours a week in class. You work eight months out of the year and have four months paid vacation. And every seven years you get ten months paid vacation. If you are really as concerned about the working class as you pretend, why donÕt you volunteer to teach four courses and twelve hours a week and lower the tuition costs for these kids?Ó
That challenge went unheeded...big surprise.
Amazing...and it wasn't over, not by a long shot. Horowitz had to endure rants by Revolutionary Communists during the question and answer period, and some whining by a professor as he left the auditorium who wailed he "was maligning her and her professor husband by saying that they only worked eight months out of the year and had a four month paid vacation at her studentsÕ expense."
Well, isn't that the case?
Fortunately, some students seemed to realize the extent of the horrendous behavior engaged in by students and professors, and wrote an editorial about it in the BG News.
Parents need to know that the big bucks they're spending to send Timmy and Sally to college isn't teaching them how to think for themselves, but to be indoctrinated into the rank and file of the Left. And they sure aren't teaching them manners, either, according to Amanda Hooper, writer of the BG News editorial: "As part of the privileged sector of society who is able to attend a University, we showed Wednesday evening that many students here don't have the manners of a 5-year-old. "
So much for "higher education."
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