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Left Monopolizes Universities

At the risk of sounding trite, the left liberals just don’t get it.

Two members of the academic community wrote on the lack of balance of liberal and conservative faculty in our universities.  Neither denied the liberal bias; both wrote that the prevailing bias, however, is the truth.

Frank Stahl (letters, Dec. 7) denied that political preference played a role in his own recruitment and in his recruitment of others.  He them goes on to contradict that statement by saying that candidates in the science field must be willing to reconsider prevailing views and that respect for establishment concepts is a handicap in the search for deeper truths.

What about that candidate who believes the deeper truths may be embedded in the establishment concepts?  Why is he not allowed to follow his beliefs?  He is obviously screened out of his position because of his respect for that establishment.  Of course, the answer is the left believes that only they know the deeper truths.

Mark Thoma (letters, Dec. 7) defends his colleagues as people who are concerned about family and safety, and asks us not to dismiss them as “out-of-touch liberal professors.”  He then has the gall to ask us to listen to all viewpoints with an open and critical ear.

That’s all conservatives want to do.  Unfortunately, the liberal left society will not let any other viewpoint but theirs into academic classrooms.

Rita Nitsche

Eugene