Liberals Dominate Graduation Lecterns Again, Says Study
by Jim Brown
June 2, 2006
(AgapePress) - - Most of the country's top colleges and universities once again chose liberal figures to speak at their graduation ceremonies this year.
A study by the Virginia-based Young America's Foundation (YAF) reveals that commencement addresses at America's top schools this year were dominated by "Democratic Party officials, leftist activists, and members of the old media." According to the Foundation, for the thirteenth year in a row, "commencement organizers chose the Tom Brokaws over the Sean Hannitys, the Marian Wright Edelmans over the Thomas Sowells, and the Desmond Tutus over the Antonin Scalias."
Dr. Jerry Falwell is chancellor of Liberty University, an evangelical school that had Arizona Senator John McCain deliver its commencement address this year. He says liberal political bias and a lack of intellectual diversity are staples on university campuses.
"Communism is dead in the Soviet Union, but I think it's alive and well on most American campuses -- or at least an anti-American philosophy," says Falwell. "The Ward Churchills are everywhere," he adds, a reference to the controversial, liberal professor from the University of Colorado.
Falwell shares that Liberty University offers Christian students an alternative to universities pervaded by liberal thought. The school, he explains, is unique in that it is committed to an inerrant Bible, the deity of Christ, America, freedom, and the free enterprise system.
"Liberty is different," he states. "We don't allow alcohol, drugs, tobacco, no coed dorms, and we don't have one single liberal professor. We discriminate against that just as Harvard and company discriminate against conservative faculty -- and we acknowledge it, and they don't."
The YAF survey also found several schools held separate graduation ceremonies for homosexual and black students.
Jim Brown, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
