[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25309]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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             CONSERVATIVES NOT WELCOME ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, in last Friday's New York Times, columnist 
Thomas Friedman quoted some advice Richard Brodhead, the dean of Yale 
College, recently gave to incoming freshmen:
  `` Above all,'' Dean Brodhead told the students, ``do not limit your 
associations to people who agree with you.''
  Yet as David Brooks pointed out in the September issue of the 
Atlantic Monthly magazine, the place where there is the least diversity 
today is on college faculties. Conservatives simply are not welcome, 
except for a few tokens in some places. As Mr. Brooks wrote, ``No group 
of people sings the diversity anthem more frequently than 
administrators at our elite universities, but elite universities are 
amazingly undiverse in their values, politics, and mores. Professors, 
in particular, are drawn from a narrow segment of the population.'' Mr. 
Brooks pointed out that conservative students and professors may be one 
of the groups most discriminated in this country today.
  Mr. Speaker, I hope our elite universities will strive for true 
diversity and academic freedom and allow at least a few conservatives 
to teach in their classrooms and speak on their campuses.

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