This is why I have such a distaste for college and the teachers (for the most part) that work in these universities. I can\'t tell how many classes I have had that were so obviously slanted to one side of the political spectrum.
This professor doesn\'t deserve death threats but a good reason to find another line of work.
Here is a small part of an article that involves Columbia.
Teach-In, Turn On, Walk Out
The ins and outs of the antiwar movement.
By Matthew Continetti
In the spring of 1968, antiwar activists protesting American military action in Indochina besieged Columbia University\'s historic Low Library, the massive, Romanesque space designed by McKim, Mead, and White which houses the offices of university administrators. Thirty-five years later, Low Library still contains the offices of university administrators. But today, antiwar activists are welcomed inside.
Such was the case on Wednesday night, when hundreds of Columbia students braved long lines and rain for a chance to witness a faculty-led "teach-in" on the Iraq crisis. I was one of them. And judging from the monolithically antiwar attitude of the speakers — and the uproarious applause that greeted criticism of the war and of the Bush administration — I was a pro-war minority of one.
The teach-in, organized by the Columbia Anti-War Coalition in conjunction with leading faculty members (among them historians Eric Foner and Alan Brinkley and law professor Patricia Williams), included over 20 presentations from faculty members on topics including international law, humanitarian aid, and the reconstruction of Iraq.
While some presentations — notably those of political scientist Gary Sick and historian Charles Armstrong — took a dispassionate, scholarly attitude toward the events in the Middle East and elsewhere, most of the lecturers simply argued that George W. Bush, not Saddam Hussein, poses the greatest threat to world peace and security.
Moreover, "teach-in" is something of a misnomer. In fact, the panelists were not really teaching, if teaching means "to impart knowledge or a skill." Instead, the cavernous rotunda of Low Library was in effect made into an echo chamber for anti-Bush boilerplate.
It became clear over the course of the six-hour teach-in that antiwar activists and intellectuals care little, if at all, about Iraq. There were few direct references to Saddam Hussein. What the antiwar professors do care about is the Bush administration. "A coup d\'etat brought us to this path," said Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and author of Letters to a Young Activist. "Our most cogent obligation is to assure that George W. Bush is not in office in 2005."
Nary a speaker departed the podium without mentioning that George W. Bush is an "illegitimate" president. "Try democracy in Washington or somewhere else," said George Saliba, a professor of the history of science in the Department of Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures.
"I live under an unelected government," said Bruce Robbins, a professor of English and Comparative Literature. In Robbins\'s view, apparently, not all wars are equally evil: "I fantasize," he said, "about being liberated by a European invasion."
Comparisons of the Bush administration with Nazi Germany and other totalitarian, imperialist powers were also common. "We must talk in order to remind the tyrants who have ignored the consent of the governed," said Barbara Fields, a professor of history. "Our leaders have given the finger to the millions who have demonstrated against the war." Professor Normand quoted Nuremberg prosecutor Robert L. Jackson, essentially equating Donald Rumsfeld with Hermann Goering. And political scientist Jack Snyder found room in his speech to compare the Bush administration with, in chronological order, Napoleon, Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, and Tojo.
