> Oh please. Universities compared to what? Auto plants? McDonald's? The right
> hates universities because they provide some degree of freedom of thought
> and a certain hospitality towards renegades. Yeah, I know how awful they can
> be sometimes. But still a lot of good comes out of them. This sort of
> rhetoric is just overheated and self-indulgent whining.
I just don't get this. Why the comparison? College kids are supposed to be grateful because they don't work in factories or fast-food restaurants? And because the right hates universities, the rest of us should defend them as a model to uphold? What exactly, besides the fevered rhetoric, are you arguing for or against here? I see chastising here but not argument. And I much prefer this kind of "overheated rhetoric," which at least has the benefit of being poetic to the dreary position papers and proceduralism of whiny activists and the ISO.