To the Editor
Reading Robert Lee’s Feb. 5 column, a quote came to mind from
Karl Rove, the advisor to the president. “As people do better, they
start voting like Republicans … unless they have too much
education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much
of a good thing.”
In my years at CSU as a political science major, I have never
seen anything that could even remotely be considered harassment or
belittling of conservative students. Now, I have had plenty of
classes where I’ve disagreed with my professors, many of whom have
been substantially more conservative than I. I have been told that
environmentalism was “outdated” and “a waste of time.” However, I
have never felt like my freedom was being stripped away just
because my professors and I had a difference of opinion, even
though sometimes I have been so furious that I just wanted to
scream back at them.
Perhaps if Mr. Lee and his fellow conservatives could understand
that they are just personal opinions, not ad hominem against the
students themselves, they would be less upset and more able to
receive the education they’re here for. It is a vital part of
education to disagree with those teaching you, as this is what aids
us in forming our own opinions. That in mind, the only function I
see the academic bill of rights having is to eliminate cognitive
thought from the university-level curriculum, which I suppose would
greatly benefit the causes of its sponsors.
Ian Mathis
Political Science
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