No conservative quotas
There they go again. In an editorial last week, campus conservatives inexplicably but inevitably repeated the charge that there is some kind of left-wing plot in the halls of academia to deprive them of a full education. It really seems redundant to rehash this tired controversy, but since conservatives are bringing it up again, and since conservative legislators in Colorado are actually proposing a kind of affirmative action for conservative teachers at Colorado universities, a response is called for. The fallacies in their claims become transparent when one looks at the specific arguments made by the article. Easily dismissed are the claims made regarding on-campus organizations and students. They are not classes and nobody is required to be involved with them. If Joe Eldridge decides to organize an anti-war rally, no student is required to attend it or to listen to ideas they might not agree with. The events can have biases, and anyone who wants to avoid those organizations can.