AND WHAT IS THIS? – AT 12:50 P.M. ET:  Something similar to this happened at Brown University a few weeks ago.  Is something happening?  Something good?  Something that gives us a belief in the future of higher education?  I certainly hope so.  From College Fix: 

Student leaders of the Harvard Crimson campus newspaper have come to an important conclusion:

“It is impossible to make every member of the Harvard community feel completely welcome all of the time.”

They point that groundbreaking realization out in a new staff editorial that calls out the Ivy League institution for its lack of political diversity, dearth of conservative scholars, and few challenges to students’ worldviews.

They argue those are problems campus leaders must address.

The student editors cite their recent poll which found only 1.5 percent of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences identify as conservative or very conservative, compared to 83.2 percent who identify as liberal or very liberal, then essentially call on campus leaders to hire more right-of-center professors.

“These statistics do not reflect America: 35 percent of Americans identify as conservative, 23 times the fraction of the faculty survey’s respondents, and 26 percent identify as liberal. This stark divide has harmful effects on the University’s ability to train our nation’s leaders, and it risks alienating current and potential conservative students,” the Crimson argues. “It has also likely contributed to the declining trust of Americans in higher education, which has deleterious effects.”

COMMENT:  Hooray for the Crimson.  I hope its editors survive the night.  There was a similar call at Brown, another Ivy League school, and we have to ask if this is a coincidence, or the start of a trend.  I hope it's the latter.  It will be bitterly resisted by the intolerant left, but they can be overcome, as their attention span is from six to nine seconds.

We have heard reports that the new young generation, the one behind the disgraced millennials, is less ideological and more open to new ideas.  It is apparently also more pro-life.

Maybe the real revolution is just beginning.

May 25, 2018