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br> Re: Brandon Crocker's The Limits of "Academic Freedom" : /p> p>Looking for diverse expressions of opinion on a college campus today is the rough equivalent of looking for a noble inner-city gang member, a humanitarian serial killer, or a talented hip hop artist. One can hear more logical presentations at the corner bar and grill than one can hear at a university. Having gone to high school and college in the turbulent '60s, I can recall a time when there was real dialogue on campus; a time when all sides of an issue were debated. Over a relatively short period of time, the radical left has assumed total control of campus thought, much to the detriment of education. It isn't the passion and the slavish repetition coming out of the colleges and universities today that depresses. Rather, it is the total lack of logic, and the refusal to learn from experience that is disheartening. How intelligent does one have to be to recognize the emptiness of communism as a political and economic philosophy? Yet the left cannot discard it. How many times from how many Muslim organizations do we have to hear that we are to be killed en masse by the Koran loving hordes of Islamists before the leftists understand that making nice with these people will not work? If learning from the past is the mark of the well educated, what kind of education do these liberal professors and college administrators have? Certainly not the kind that we want for our children if we expect to remain a viable society. br> -- Joseph Baum br> Newton Falls, Ohio /p> p> LET DETROIT'S BLACKS ROLL br> Re: Ralph R. Reiland's Detroit: Hayek's Nightmare : /p>

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