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Viewpoint Diversity On Campus

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Heterodox U has put together a guide. My alma mater in Ann Arbor doesn’t fare well, but at least it’s not Missouri or Oregon. Keep it in mind both in sending your kid there, or hiring.

[Late-morning update]

Related: Are colleges making our young men sick? Despite all the blather about “rape culture,” the real war on campus is against them. And it starts in public schools, before they even get there.

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  2. I was at Purdue University when the hostages were taken in Iran back in the 1970s. During the months prior to that, the very large Iranian student contingent on campus had been chalking political slogans in Farsi on the sidewalks, and generally making a nuisance of themselves. Smoking was allowed in the hallways, and once an Iranian student came up to me asking if I had a light. I did, gave it to him, and he said “Thank you, have a good day!” And I nodded and said, “You’re welcome. Death to the Shah!”

    The night they took the hostages in Iran, the Iranian students disappeared from the campus, and didn’t surface again while I was there. It was most likely because the Purdue football team went out on campus in force, armed with baseball bats, ready to obliterate any Iranian they found.

    It wasn’t like this was limited to the students. I had breakfast with one of my professors the next day. When I brought up the hostages, his visage turned to a steely resolution, and he said “We need to send them a registered letter – via Minuteman III.”

    When they say that “men” are prone to violence, I think it’s true to an extent. But in a free society, it is generally in defense of human rights. None of the Iranian students was ever hurt by Purdue students. But when they returned to Iran, they were generally executed. I rather think they would have preferred being beaten up by the football team, and being alive…

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