I was too “inbred” of the University of Delaware, even though I scored 800 on my Math in SAT and all together scored a 1310, then again being a white male applying for an Engineering degree was too oppressing and too white.

So you know what, I went to DelTech than went so SUNYIT and got my degree in Math and Laser and Optical Physics. Now I make more in my field than >90% fo the Engineering students from UDel. Plus I have to look at their resumes and interview them now, hahaha, maybe they should have spent more time learning math and engineering and stopped partying and learning about diversity and sympathy.

I had many friends in UofD and what you are hearing is 100% the truth about what is going on in UofD. Do not be a conservative when living in a dorm. Pathetic.

Now she is the token liberal! Vegen, pro-choicer, pro gay marriage, and she thinks her cousin ‘me’ is a racist, bigot, homophobe, sexist, and I have to hear it at every get together of the family. Of course when you are more successful than she is, it does help me laugh when she calls me names.

I considered going to UofD back in the early 90′s and even back then the reason why I decided against it was because I felt they were too liberal. This doesn’t not surprise me at all!

What I find ironic is what they are doing is actually oppressive. Also, when are minority groups going to wake up and realize that the liberals DO judge and “tag” them by their color, race, sexual orientation? Until we STOP segregating groups of people, the libtards will continue to exploit them!

Liberals are, and always have been, about groupthink. They label conservatives as conformists, sheeple, dittoheads, etc., when in reality conservatives have always championed individualism, while libs have always championed conformity. That’s because their philosophy cannot stand up to scrutiny; they need the power of numbers to maintain and advance their ideals. Conservatism isn’t the primary threat to liberalism, individualism is. Therefore, they need to resort to coercive measures such as this forced indoctrination program.

Thanks for posting this Warner.

It does my heart good to see that the left’s tactics are; (1) being exposed, (2) being objected to, (3) being publicly ridiculed by even their intended targets.

When I hear this tape and read the discussions on the blogs, I am so grateful that I had to work my way through college. To secure a four-year degree, I had to work forty-eight hours a week during each semester and two jobs each summer to finally achieve my Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with minors in English and History. I didn’t have time to sit around and contemplate life, I had to live it. I didn’t have an automobile to tool around in or fancy clothes to wear, but I had pride, was always clean and spent every spare moment learning as much as possible. I didn’t have time to figure out whether I was prejudice towards anyone else for any reason, and I wasn’t. No one told me what to think, I thought for myself. No professor impressed me so much that I swallowed what he or she said without question. I have lived my life that way and am still not impressed by what people say, I watch to see what they do and why they do it. Did my attitude pay off? You tell me, I am seventy-five years old, still working by choice, not necessity, have worked all my life, am well off so that my family does not need anything and look forward to every day with a prositive attitude. I married once, and am still married to the same lady and we have two children, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. I have never lied, stolen or cheated anyone and have no immediate plans to do so. I feel sorry for those who feel they need to do this in life to survive or get what they want from life. The only one I have a right to judge is myself. I can change myself and my attitudes long before I can change the thinking of others and, besides, why bother trying to change other people?

The only faculty Republican was the football coach, Bud Wilkinson. The rest were liberal (read leftists) Democrats to a person. While a few Republicans have managed to sneak in since that time, David Boren spent a good deal of university money attempting to drive one found in the geology department out.

Our colleges and universities are essentially one party states in which the extrme left is both encouraged and babied. One of the professors told me that he was forced to do his graduate research in 19th century labor politics which had no interest for him at all. But if he wanted that graduate degree and opportunity to teach at a university level he had to give them what he wanted. Now just how interesting do you think his lectures are in a subject that he loves no more now that when he was forced to do it for a degree?

I wish I had found this thread when it first went up, because I think I have a unique knowledge of this situation as (1) a junior faculty member at a public university and (2) a Delaware graduate (BA Political Science ’00 Fall, MPA ‘03).

Since the time that I first arrived in Newark in the fall of 1997, the campus has changed rather significantly. I did not attend orientation way back then, so I do not remember these things. However, I do remember when the university began to crack down very harshly on its “party school” image earlier this decade. The rumor was the university lost a significant grant from the Robert Wood Johnson foundation, spurring a crackdown on immoral behavior (frats were tossed off campus, increased police presence in general). What I’ve witnessed here seems to follow right along with those means.

I do want to defend is the classroom setting I did have there to some degree. I was one of a significant minority of conservative students there, and I never felt uncomfortable speaking my mind in the classroom. Teachers I had were mostly open to and supportive of debate, even those who thought (and still think) I am nuts. Though none were unabashed in their liberal thinking (with 2 exceptions – though one remained completely closeted about her conservatism until gaining tenure). I found much more hostility in my Ph.D. program at another university to outside thinking than I ever did in Newark. That said I am a bit more of a firebrand than most, so maybe others would be more sensitive to the open-liberal leanings of my professors and any attempted indoctrination efforts like this. Though looking back, it may be my interjections reacting against their openly-liberal thought, and also the professor’s reaction to me, that still influences my lecture style today.

If you’d like an anecdotal story about the campus – I still remember the first professor I TAed for as a Senior, bragging about how she kept her political leanings so well closeted from her students. We spent nearly a month in her class on American Political Thought reading/discussing the Feminine Mystique. She has a McGovern-Shriver poster on the wall of her office. And this story was during the 2000 election mess. I remember almost choking on the dinner she made for us when she said that.

Still I am disappointed that I am only hearing about this program and debate now, as I just picked through my trash for my monthly donation mailer from the campus. They will be getting a reply from me, though not in monetary form.

While I would always love to return to my alma mater to teach/research, I am heart-fully disappointed in them, upon hearing these facts. Though I must admit, I am not the least bit surprised by any of this. I hear stories of attempted coercion all the time, and always force students to defend their positions on issues/theories/policies, whatever they may be. What the gentleman said at the end of the piece is how I start every semester, and how I always will. College was made for open discussion, and not indoctrination. Know there is at least 1 Blue Hen out there that gets it.

Check it out we can fix the higher education industrial complex