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<h2>But I suppose it’s better than Penn State, Pitt, Rutgers, Maryland. Delaware, UCONN, UMASS, and so on if you want that type of narrow-minded exclusionary education.</h2>
<p>I’d like to defend Grove City College from the accusation that it is narrow-minded and exclusionary.</p>
<p>The fact is it isn’t. Students are taught various points of view and left-wingers aren’t ostracized or even shouted down. Opposing points of view are ENCOURAGED during class discussions and occassionally, even left-wing speakers and speakers whose viewpoints are antithetical to Christianity are invited. How is that exclusionary ?</p>
<p>It’s just that most of those who tend to apply to the school are Christians and Conservatives. It goes without saying that you expect the culture of the school to be conservative. But then, so are colleges like — Wheaton, Hillsdale, Brigham Young and Baylor University.</p>
<p>But to be balanced, let’s look at the other side of the coin. Here’s an editorial by the Washington Times, 04/11/04 that should be an eye opener ( see here : [Intellectual</a> diversity on campus.(EDITORIALS) | Washington Times, The | Find Articles at BNET.com](<a href=“http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200404/ai_n19585960):%5DIntellectual”>http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_200404/ai_n19585960):)</p>
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<p>"For all the agony and lawsuits about diversity among student enrollments, there has been a shameful silence about the lack of intellectual diversity within college faculties. Consider a 2001 Frank Luntz Research/Center for the Study of Popular Culture (CSPC) survey of Ivy League professors, which found that 0 percent identified themselves as conservative. </p>
<p>At Harvard, Democratic professors outnumbered Republican professors in economics, political science and sociology departments by 50-2, according to a 2001 American Enterprise Institute survey. At Stanford, it was 151-7; at Davidson College in North Carolina, 10-1. This lack of diversity has real consequences on quality education, academic discourse and academic freedom itself.</p>
<h2>A course description at the University of California Berkeley (100 Democrats, 9 Republicans, according to a CSPC study) stated that “conservative thinkers are encouraged to seek other sections.” When a student at a Colorado school wrote an essay on why Saddam Hussein was a war criminal, instead of why George W. Bush was, as her professor asked, she received a failing grade. Of course, most students would simply accept the status quo in fear of the opprobrium they could face. After all, when the chairman of Duke’s philosophy department says that his university (95 Democrats, 15 Republicans) doesn’t hire more conservative professors because, “as John Stuart Mill said, stupid people are generally conservative,” why shouldn’t a student stay quiet?</h2>
<p>So, what do we see in most other campuses IN PRACTICE ? You talk about Grove city being right-wing, well, how many colleges out there are left-wing, exclusionary and narrow-minded ?</p>