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To: jlallen who wrote (218865)	1/15/2002 5:44:58 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

Is the Pope Catholic? Or Where's the Diversity? newsmax.com Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2002 Poll Confirms Ivy League's Leftist Slant It's even worse than we thought: More than 80 percent of Ivy League professors who voted in 2000 chose loser Al Gore and only 9 percent voted for President Bush, a new survey reveals. Only 3 percent of the out-of-touch eggheads described themselves as Republicans, the poll by Luntz Research Cos. found, and - we are not making this up - the profs picked Bill Clinton as best president of the past 40 years, the Washington Times reported today. "All that this survey shows is what we already know, that the elite universities are subsidiaries of the Democratic Party and political left," said David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, which commissioned the poll. The profs' goose-stepping conformity "disappointed" Frank Luntz, the Republican pollster whose firm conducted the survey. Where's the Diversity? "I think if parents saw the political leanings of these professors, they'd be upset," he told the Times. "I think universities should insist on the same diversity in their faculty that they look for in their students. I have a problem when these faculties have no Republican or conservative representation at all." Here are some other fascinating tidbits from the poll: Seventy-one percent of the professors named a Democrat as their pick for best modern-day president. Only 8 percent named a Republican. Only 14 percent support missile defense, compared with 70 percent of the public. Only 26 percent are pro-choice on school vouchers, compared to 62 percent of the public. Forty percent want taxpayer-provided slavery "reparations" for blacks, compared with 11 percent of the public. The poll highlights the astonishing hypocrisy of such bastions of limousine liberals as Harvard University, which gives plenty of lip service to highfalutin socialist schemes but can't keep its black faculty happy and, what's even more embarrassing, won't even pay its blue-collar staff a decent wage.