"As I took part in a recent student leadership board meeting for the Department of Political Science at Boston University, a group that works to advise faculty on ways to improve, I offered some advice: the department could use more intellectual diversity.I suggested more debates in the classroom, as opposed to what I had witnessed in my three years at the school, that being an assumption during class that everyone agrees.
I broached my idea after I had sat and respectfully listened to the ideas of others for an hour, but my peers, and a professor and an administrator in the room, were not about to return the favor.
- One student chided me that “debate” was too aggressive of a word, that I should use “discussion” instead.
- Another student, a College Democrat in the room, then compared me to a well-known peer from Boston University who is often regarded as a neo-Nazi and who went to the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, noting “he has sat here in these seats asking for intellectual diversity as well.”
I felt shocked and insulted.
I waited to see if either the professor or administrator or any of the other students in the room would defend me.
None did.
One student suggested conservatives shouldn’t major in political science at Boston University, as they’d have a hard time.
The room erupted in laughter.
I wish I could say I was surprised.
But after years of experiencing liberal bias, both at Boston University as well as Lehigh University, where I attended before I transferred, it felt like just another day on campus.
To that end, there are plenty of anecdotes I could supply.
Here are just a few.
- As a freshman, or as the administration likes to say to avoid being sexist— as a “first-year”— I was required to take an English class. My instructor was a teaching assistant, but insisted we call her professor. The morning after President Trump won, she dismissed class early because she could not stop crying..."
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