After I did this post, refuting part of a Froma Harrop column, I got to wondering about one of Washington's more famous institutions of higher learning, Evergreen State College. I had found just one open Republican on Harvard's faculty, and I wondered if Evergreen had any.
I used the same method to check Evergreen State as I used for Harvard, looking for campaign contributions to Republicans at Open Secrets. (Specifically, I searched for contributors to the 2002, 2004, and 2006 campaigns who lived in Washington state, and worked for an employer with "Evergreen" in its name.) I found just 8 contributions, all to Democrats (Patty Murray, Rick Larsen, Dennis Kucinich, the Democratic National Committee, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee).
But this method of looking for Republicans on the faculty at Evergreen would miss some, since many people who support a party do not contribute to it. So I will put the question up to our readers: Do you know of any Republicans on the faculty at Evergreen? Even a single one? (Republicans on the Evergreen faculty who wish to remain in the closet can send me a private email, if they like.)
(Evergreen lists a College Republican club as one of its student groups, but there was no description of the club farther down. Perhaps they once had such a club, but no longer do.)
Posted by Jim Miller at March 15, 2006 09:16 AM | Email ThisMaybe Evergreen State should change it's name to Evergreen State Madrasah.
Posted by: Jeff B. on March 15, 2006 09:45 AMOne must remember Evergreen is a religous institution. When it's religion you don't have to have diversity.
Posted by: JCM on March 15, 2006 10:34 AMThe fact our tax dollars support this "institution" should make every conservative angry, and if there is a single republican professor there, I'll be amazed.
Posted by: Dan on March 15, 2006 11:36 AMNever, and I mean never, give a socialist an inch. If socialist jumps into a lake to save another person complain that the were so slow that the almost caused the other person to drown.
Posted by: Lucas on March 15, 2006 12:00 PMJohn Filmer, a professor at Evergeen State College, gave a total of $1,000.00 to Republican State Representative Mike Carrell between November 8, 2003 and September 8, 2004.
However, the vast majority of Evergreen contributions go to Democrats.
Posted by: Richard Pope on March 15, 2006 01:15 PM
Yeah, the Republican State Governor was Dan Evans so the laughing can now commence but he was a Republican (RINO) though his entire political career.
You're right. Dan Evans is by no means retired from his political career. He still runs the WSRP through his proxies. He is still highly involved in the party. He's a board member of the Washington Mainstream Republicans and other RINO organizations as well. His ideas though stealthfuly promulgated are why the WSRP continues to be ineffective.
Posted by: Republican in Exile on March 15, 2006 02:37 PMI am not joking here. I am not making it up. It is the truth.
http://crime.about.com/od/serial/p/tedbundy.htm
Bundy worked on the re-election campaign of Washington's Republican Governor Dan Evans. Evans was elected and he appointed Bundy to the Seattle Crime Prevention Advisory Committee. Bundy's political future seemed secure, when in 1973 he became assistant to Ross Davis, chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. It was a good time in Bundy's life. He had a girlfriend, his old girlfriend was once again in love with him, and his footing in the political arena was strong.
Posted by: Alex on March 15, 2006 04:35 PMCompared to Harvard's mission to educate, Lockheed has the apolitical goal of providing maximum return to their shareholders by operating their business in the most responsible way possible, which means building the best missile systems, fighter planes, and command-and-control electronics systems that they can. This means examining various possible solutions to a given engineering problem from many different perspectives in order to find the best solution, something which the vastly liberal Harvard cannot adequately do with their standard set of filters for examining the world that are intolerant of the different perspectives that may be brought up. It is clear what the politics of Harvard professors means to their students, but it is hardly clear what politics has to do with the capability of building quality F22 jets.
Furthermore, while it's easy to pick on Churchill, Harrop's argument that he is the only one we can name is ridiculous. Cornel West, anyone? Paul Krugman? Lawrence Tribe? I could go on, but the point is that if Ward Churchill were an aberation, people wouldn't be so upset.
Finally, David Horowitz may be an "easy" target (at least she got you to partially apologize for his existence, for what it's worth), but how about Robert Kimball, who is far more rigorous in his analysis of liberalism on colleges? It's easy to pick the most "out there" example as a straw man, but that's a method of avoiding the issue rather than really examining it.
Posted by: Marc on March 16, 2006 12:49 AM" ...you can't imagine the running topics he thinks up every time his history class diverges to talks on lesbianism, the evil corporate world, and things like that. He has learned to block it out completely and always has his running notebook on hand to outline another of his grandiose plans."