<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just for fun, I thought a might go back and attempt to classify the politics of every grad student/prof I've taken a course with at the University:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Poly Sci 111 (couldn't really get a read on the politics of either the professor or TA)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>German 101 (graduate student instructor studied Marxism and seemed to be a Marxist)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Soc 102 (professor protested against the Gulf War)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>English 125 (TA was a mainstream lib.  She really enjoyed my verbal evisceration of Ralph Nader.)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philosophy 232 (prof was a moderate Dem and the TA was a libertarian)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>German 102 (TA didn't really talk about politics very much)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>English 225 (Prof was a mainstream lib.  Had a piece from The Baffler in her coursepack)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>English 239 (prof didn't profess much of an interest in political matters)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philosophy 361 (Not sure of Stephen's politics.  The TA, though, was an ardent leftist who helped organize protests against the war in Afghanistan)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Psychology 114 (Professor was a former member of the National Guard.  Probably conservative)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Honors Seminar 256 (Taught by a professor emeritus from the microbiology department.  I have no idea what his politics are)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>German 231 (taught by the aforementioned German 102 instructor)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philosophy 366 (TA seemed to be a left-liberal)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>English 270 (taught by my 239 prof)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Psych 409 (The only political statement the TA ever made in my presence related to her opposition to the war in Afghanistan)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Philosophy 383 (The only political statement the instructor ever made in my presence related to her opposition to the privatization of government services in her native New Zealand)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stats 350 (no clue)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Russian 356 (don't know)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm sure the results would've looked different if I'd simply classified everyone as an apologist for capitalism.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>