University Nonsense

There's been a bit of attention lately to the left-wing tilt of America's universities, along with all the pap (blatant political pressure from professors, ideological indoctrination passed off as "classes," and the like) accompanying that reality.

My question is this: if you're a sensible person -- that is, you find the wholesale exclusion of conservative thought from campuses as odious as I do -- why do you send your alma mater money? Because your school is almost certainly no less guilty than any other of the leftist intolerance (there are a few, such as Hillsdale, that still welcome a range of opinions, but they're so few that they won't enter into our debate). Yet if you're like so many of my friends, you contribute to the annual fundraising drive, and you support the school further with your (fungible) dollars by being a rabid fan of its sports program.

Here's my advice. Cut 'em off: no more contributions, and no more pouring your precious cash into their money-making "amateur" sports teams. The schools will start to amend their ways when they feel the pain in their wallets, and certainly no sooner. They can get all the bad press National Review and The Economist can send their way, but as long as the coin keeps pouring in, they'll change not at all.