Really Not Happy with Bucknell University

This from Brain Terminal, with a health hat tip to the Volokh Conspiracy.

First of all, I am not happy with Bucknell for trashing my NCAA basketball bracket, but that is another matter.

In yet another example of the liberalization of academia, Brain Terminal points out some serious issues of student tuition being used to promote a particular political ideology. I have no issue with schools raising awareness of political matters, but the school has a duty to present opposing viewpoints--particularly colleges. The school's Women's Resource Center sponsors trips to allow students to attend political rallies--a good and noble cause, but you have to select the right cause apparently.

When some female students saw that the WRC was in the business of arranging trips to political protests, they asked for similar help setting up a trip to a rally with a different political philosophy. The students were turned down. Feminism is supposed to be about allowing women to make choices, but apparently there are some choices the WRC doesn't want women to make, such as how to think politically.

And if you think that Womens issues were the only politically correct propaganda, you would be wrong. The school's Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Awareness requested

used Valentine's Day to promote "National Freedom to Marry Week." The office handed out t-shirts and buttons and sent an e-mail to all students asking them "to show their support in a very visible way [...] regarding marriage rights."

In other words, the university was asking students to take a specific political stance in support of gay marriage. Clearly, the university stepped over the line of appropriate action; this wasn't a case of one professor or administrator speaking his or her opinion at a rally, this was an official arm of the university--staffed by paid university employees--asking students to support gay marriage "in a very visible way."

The outrage here is the use of the school's budget and paid staff, supported by students, parents and alumni, to promote a political belief. As a student I was forced to pay "activity fees" that were then used to support a number of student organizations, but not my fraternity because we had a closed admission process based on student grades, many of whom I disagreed with strenously. But at the least, those monies were going to student organizations.

Tuition dollars, whether from parents or students themselves, should be used ONLY for education or support activities. The Bucknell Women's Resource Center and OLGBT don't have that mission--they are promoting political viewpoints--not their job.

Now about the basketball team.....

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