Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Campus Reform - Hannah Scherlacherz: Lambs to the Slaughter - Nice that at least one college prez, Warren Wilson College, is trying to recruit conservative students but first colleges must protect conservatives from censoring and attacks





Every year, colleges and universities across the nation go to great lengths to keep conservatism off campus. 2017 brought about a perpetual state of outrage, with college students and faculty attempting to stomp out everything from the Constitution to Conservative clubs. One North Carolina college, however, took a slightly different approach.
The President of Warren Wilson College, a private North Carolina school with a liberal reputation, announced that the school will proactively recruit conservative students to increase intellectual diversity on campus. While the school deserves credit for recognizing the threat liberal bias places on a vibrant marketplace of ideas, sending the sheep to the slaughter isn’t the answer. The reality is, America’s campuses are unwelcoming at best, and dangerous at worst, for conservatives.

A better approach would be to actually protect freedom of expression on campus. ...
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10456