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To: Paul Smith who wrote (314642)	7/14/2009 4:30:09 PM
From: SteveinTX	4 Recommendations Respond to of 793838

"From the disgust with which she attacked me, you would have thought I had advocated Nazism. She quickly grew so emotional that she had to leave the room. " This educated women obviously holds a student with conservative views in the same esteem as a cockroach. I would enjoy seeing her "outed" and forced to defend her behavior before conservative peers, if there were such people in Eugene.

To: Paul Smith who wrote (314642)	7/14/2009 4:46:56 PM
From: mph	4 Recommendations Respond to of 793838

A more draconian option is to enact a political litmus test and mandate that Republicans fill a certain number of positions, but doing so would exclude many qualified professors and be unfairly discriminatory But I bet all those liberal profs would support affirmative action and filling of slots by population based quotas when it comes to other protected clssifications.

To: Paul Smith who wrote (314642)	7/14/2009 6:26:45 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793838

What's so remarkable is that I hadn't actually advocated Republican ideas or conservative ideas. In fact, I'm not a conservative, nor a Republican. I simply believe in the concept of diversity – a primarily liberal idea – and think that we suffer when we don't include ideas we find unappealing. Not yet, but he will be. Anybody taking a such a reasoned approach these days will have no choice but to notice which side values reason, and which only values feelings and identity politics. This kid sounds like a classical liberal, which means he eventually has to become a neocon.