Better brush off my resume

So that I can lay down some conservatism on the benighted liberals at the University of Colorado:

Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson surveys this landscape (the liberal landscape of CU) with unease. A college that champions diversity, he believes, must think beyond courses in gay literature, Chicano studies and feminist theory. “We should also talk about intellectual diversity,” he says. So over the next year, Mr. Peterson plans to raise $9 million to create an endowed chair for what is thought to be the nation’s first Professor of Conservative Thought and Policy.
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Mr. Peterson — a Republican who took over as chancellor two years ago — says he would like to bring a new luminary to campus every year or two to fill the chair, for an annual salary of about $200,000. No candidates have been approached, but faculty and administrators have floated big names like Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, columnist George Will and Philip Zelikow, who chaired the 9/11 Commission.

OK, OK. So maybe I don’t have enough lumens to be a “luminary.” But I could certainly turn this little moppet around:

“They need to learn about social problems and poverty and the type of things liberal professors are likely to talk about,” says Ms. Malouff, a Democrat.

There speaks a child who’s never met a conservative thought in her entire life.

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One Response to “Better brush off my resume”

  1. Muslihoon Says:
    May 13, 2008 at 9:29 am

    They need to learn about social problems and poverty and the type of things liberal professors are likely to talk about

    As if the conservative would not have heard it ad nausem before?

    I like this move, nonetheless. At least it demonstrates that conservatism is worth considering in an academic setting.

    I nominate Ann Coulter. She’d be CU’s biggest money-draw if only for the people who’ll come to try to refute her (and throw pies - which will be a boon for the local bakery market).

    Or they could hire Jeff Goldstein.

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