The conservative activist group Campus Reform says University or Rochester is too liberal. | Its sins are many, the group says. For starters, the UR dares to have only seven conservative student groups, while it has "at least 10 leftist liberal groups," writes Tony Listi on Campus Reform's website. That pits the Rochester Gun Club against the Student Association of Vegan and Vegetarian Youth. | Listi's post is also critical of the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, and the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies. The former, it says, erodes traditional values while the latter "promotes Marxist-tinged racialism." Never mind Rochester's prominent role in the abolition and women's suffrage movements. | Listi also complains that the faculty, staff, and trustees give too much money to Democrats. | Campus Reform also picks on a class where students study the writings of Adam Smith, a free-market, free-trade thinker. But the same class also teaches Karl Marx, so that's probably the problem. | It's tough to ignore what Campus Reform overlooked: The Simon School. It teaches a free-market, entrepreneurial model of business and economics popular with conservatives. And it produced Republican Congressional Representative Chris Lee.
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tea party said on Aug. 31, 2010 at 6:31pm
Your going to complain to a liberal newspaper that the UR is too liberal? This paper considers a university department conservative if it graduates a republican congressman. Consider your audience.
Georgia NeSmith said on Aug. 31, 2010 at 10:04pm
"The UR dares to have only seven conservative groups while it has at least '10 leftist liberal groups'."?????
Where's that "personal responsibility" thing conservatives are yapping about all the time?
Student groups exists because students have created them. Nobody up in admin - ON ANY CAMPUS - tells students: look, these are the groups we have created, and you have to choose from among them.
If there are fewer conservative groups it's because conservative students are more active advancing their individual interests than in working together as a team or group. Oh yeah. Teams. Teamwork means you have to put group interests ahead of your own.
Can't have that, doncha know. Why, that's socialist.
Oh, and that thing about teaching both Adam Smith and Marx? That's called EDUCATION, meaning you don't have to agree with any one of the scholars you study, you just have to know what they said. And guess what? If you want to argue against Marxist economics you damn well better know what it is and not what that idiot Glenn Beck says it is.
Jack Disraeli said on Sep. 01, 2010 at 5:55am
Middle East So-Called Peace Process:
Once again the Israeli Government is up to its tricks in trying to convince people that it really wants to see a viable Palistinian State. The truth is no Israeli Government has ever wished to see a viable Palistinian State. The only reason that Israel shows up at these cruel hoaxes of Peace meetings is to continue to get over 3,000.000 dollars from the USA every years.
Howard J. Eagle said on Sep. 02, 2010 at 11:18am
Would someone please define so-called " racialism."
Think 4 Me said on Sep. 03, 2010 at 8:43pm
You know this Listi guy is right. He should start his own university and provide a conservative arts education. Wait a minute. We already have those. They're called madrasahs.
Hoss Firooznia said on Sep. 04, 2010 at 4:08pm
It's a sad day for Conservatism if a group like SAVVY (which strives to prevent the needless torture and slaughter of animals) is considered exclusively "leftist" or "liberal". Such news might come as a bit of a shock to prominent vegetarian Conservatives like Matthew Scully, a former editor at National Review and speechwriter for Sarah Palin.
Opposing cruelty to animals isn't a partisan issue. But then, why should we assume Mr. Listi represents anyone but himself?
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