Today's East Valley Tribune "Voice" op-ed piece was written by some guy named Roy Miller and suggests ASU President Michael Crow should "row the boat to the right in order to achieve the growth he envisions." This veiled threat is in response to Mr. Miller is ("a Phoenix businessman and graduate of the ASU Business College") belief that there's too many damn lefties teaching at ASU, and if Crow knows what's best for him and ASU, he needs to hire more faculty who are "Republicans" and hold a "conservative ideology." Otherwise, Republicans and conservatives will cut funding.
He cites a Hoover Institute (now THERE'S an unbiased source) study that purportedly says there are lots of colleges with "no Republicans at all."
Oh...My...God!
The study one supposes he's citing is titled "Impostors in the Temple: A Blueprint for Improving Higher Education in America." It was published in, get this, 1992. This is "The most recent study I (Miller) encountered." Hmm, 13 years old?!
Wow. Let's change ASU now!
I think Mr. Miller needs to get out more often. I wonder why he didn't mention the year of the study. Hmmm.
He says that "Conservative parents of college-age students who have raised (does he mean indoctrinated?) their children to believe in conservative ideas" should consider sending their kids to other schools because at ASU they may be "turned to the left by the ASU faculty."
Oh...My...God!!
Mr. Miller is engaging what is commonly called "spreading bullshit." Not only does he want us to think he is somehow an expert on ASU because he went there, he also wants us to think he's an expert on the effects of universities to transform conservative kids into lefties because he attended a conference. He also wants us to think that parents who want to politically indoctrinate their kids even further can't send them to private colleges and universities instead. This, ladies and gentlemen, is classic bullshit. He is a non-expert talking out of his posterior and hoping the public buys it.
Miller just doesn't get that education and research and exposure to new ideas and thoughts is what drives college professors to be "lefties" (besides getting themselves hired in the first place). Conservative ideology is not one that lends itself to open discussions of things that are true, different, or which questions dogma. Ideology, by its nature and definition, precludes any search for the truth. Ideologues don't want kids to know the truth. Miller doesn't want kids to know the truth otherwise how would these students be "turned to the left?"
Roy Miller makes the perfect case of why ASU needs to stay the way it is: to open people's eyes.
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