Ward Churchill: Not an Aberration

Since we all support universities with either donations, tuition payments or tax dollars, we should all be listening to David Horowitz:

For nearly thirty years conservative candidates for university faculties have been informally blacklisted and conservative students discouraged from pursuing academic careers, through constant derogation and political harassment in the classroom. Anyone familiar with the result knows that there are thousands of programs like the Kirkland Project and tens of thousands of professors like Rabinowitz and Churchill.

The nation at large has now gotten a little glimpse of what this means. Hopefully, the scandals at Hamilton and Colorado won't be mistaken for a scandal about a couple of bad apples. The system itself is broken. The academic enterprise has been corrupted. Hamilton and Colorado are the Enrons and WorldComs of the university system. It was their misfortune to blunder onto the nation's radar screen and expose a wider corruption. But the erosion of academic standards is now very broad indeed and the rot deeper than you think.