<p>“In addition, many students arrive believing that professors, especially in the humanities and social sciences, are mostly political radicals who will try to convert them to some outlandish belief system from another era.”</p>
<p>@tenisghs: It’s not just today that this happens. I can tell you that when I was in college going back several decades I still vividly remember a social anthropology teacher’s lecture which stated (almost verbatim) that if the proletariat class does not get the change it wants by peaceful means the only recourse was “violent revolution” [here she raised her arm, fist at apex in a Che Guavara-like pose]. All I wanted to do was learn about minority non-western cultures, polyandry, cross cousin marriages, etc. and I got slapped in the head with this.</p>