Re: Aug. 6 Mike Rosen column.
As a self-professed bleeding-heart-liberal, I disagree with just about everything Mike Rosen writes but join him in rejecting the idea that higher education needs to be sanitized of potentially offensive thoughts and ideas. All voices should be heard, discussed and evaluated at the college level. If colleges don’t challenge thinking and beliefs, we fail our students. The dominance of liberal-leaning faculties warrants an old-fashioned, liberal affirmative-action program to recruit qualified conservative professors to provide a balance of ideas. I love the thought of colleges graduating the next generation of liberal thinkers, not liberal clones and puppets spouting politically correct party dogma with religious fervor. I trust Rosen hopes the same for conservative-leaning graduates.
The current state of U.S. politics should serve as a cautionary tale for what happens when critical thinking is replaced with dogma and the tribalism of party politics. Long live George F. Will and Noam Chomsky.
Rick Hagerty, Buena Vista
Mike Rosen’s column on the coddling of “college crybabies” was quite the spectacle, but he offered no serious modicum of evidence demonstrating that “crybabies” run amok through college campuses. Only after 523 rambling words twisted with vague and incoherent charges against “college students,” brimming with reactionary buzzwords placed in a nauseating number of quotation marks, did Rosen finally reach the crux of his diatribe: A single, nameless student at Oklahoma Wesleyan University said something silly and the president of the institution rebuked him — more than eight months before Rosen wrote this article. Is that really the best substantiating story that he could muster?
Harris Kalat, Englewood
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