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Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Phyllis Schlafly :: Townhall.com Columnist
College Student Alert: Beware of One-Party Classrooms
by Phyllis Schlafly
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Even at the University of Miami in Ohio, the women's studies department makes clear that its courses are organized around radical feminist theory. To get a degree in women's studies, the first requirement for the senior thesis is that it "must incorporate feminist perspectives."

If any course syllabus promises to include "critical thinking," that means criticizing men and the patriarchy.

The University of Texas uses required texts that take as their starting point the patriarchal structure of society. Twenty-five points of a student's final grade are determined by a gender journal in which students question norms about sexuality.

Typical readings assigned at the University of Arizona reveal the bias of the courses: "Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism," "Sexual Democracy: Women, Oppression and Revolution" and "The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism."

A course at the University of Missouri asserts that U.S. institutions exert social control over women's bodies to promote gendered inequalities, especially the media, the legal system and the medical profession. Missouri courses attack femininity as "a tool of self-oppression," and courses are frankly described as "a training course for radical feminists in radical feminism."

Women's studies courses don't assign readings by any of the great women writers: Jane Austen, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson or the Bronte sisters. Also blacklisted are those who criticize feminism, such as Christina Hoff Sommers, Carolyn Graglia, Daphne Patai and Camille Paglia.

The cultural Marxists have been teaching college students long enough to deceive two generations. The abuses of the liberal arts curriculum were set forth 20 years ago by Allan Bloom in "The Closing of the American Mind" and nearly 50 years ago by E. Merrill Root in "Collectivism on the Campus."

When are young people and their parents going to stop paying exorbitant tuition for the privilege of being brainwashed by the left?

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Phyllis Schlafly is a national leader of the pro-family movement, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Feminist Fantasies.
 
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Are you people serious?
First off, you all jump to blame a President who hasn't been in office for 100 days. What about your precious Bush? Why didn't he head the fight if our universities are in such trouble? Secondly, I find it interesting that you only mention the colleges that you feel are liberal yet the conservative colleges that are indoctrinating children with right winged beliefs aren't mentioned. Of course not, you approve of those.

Now, we have a comment that is suggesting that everyone shouldn't go to college. Really? Um, so the right is saying that education shouldn't be expected. My parents are both conservative and we were taught that college was expected not an option.

You know less than 100 years ago women decided to fight for the right to vote. What a crazy notion. You people should step outside of your white bread, suburbia and join the rest of the country. I am more of a moderate so personally the right is just as guilt of anything you blame on the left.

Anyone who doesn't believe that there has been massive sexism and racism in this country needs to wake up and join reality. This entire article is propaganda at its worse and you all are the sheep that follow.

What is great about this country is we have different points of view. I have had very conservative professors as well and found it interesting to hear another side of an issue. Maybe if you didn't discount other people, even going so far as saying you hope someone starves, you might realize that there are some very interesting things to be learned from others.

Before It's Too Late
As a retired public school teacher I am convinced that our only hope is to rescue our children from the public (government) schools and raise a godly generation. Please see "Call to Dunkirk" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRGZLSVph3A.
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