With the decline of basic math skills that they helped to bring about, about the only place that the political Left can multiply is on college campuses. We can see the multiplication process at work in graduation exercises as the political and media elite use their frequent flyer miles to reach students one more time before they leave the academic nest.
Indeed, a random selection of 33 colleges shows that one-third of the speakers chosen by these institutions of higher learning to inspire seniors are conservative, Republican or independent. The remainder of the lecturers were decidedly left-of-center.
Even that breakdown is a bit inflated because the former group includes such luminaries as Arizona Senator John McCain, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and former U. S. Representative Jim Leach, who were never favorites of conservatives:
Va. Tech—Gov. Bob McDonnell
Hillsdale—Ed Meese
Liberty—Glenn Beck
Ave Maria—Jeb Bush
University of Southern Mississippi—Rudy Giuliani
Beloit College—David Axelrod
St. Norbert—Gwen Ifill
Smith College—Rachel Maddow
American University—Janet Napolitano
University of North Dakota—Janet Napolitano
Agnes Scott College—Madeleine Albright
Case Western—Katie Couric
Yale—Bill Clinton
West Virginia University—Bill Clinton
West Point—Barack Obama
Michigan—Barack Obama
Hampton University—Barack Obama
Harvard—David Souter
NYU—Alex Baldwin
Tulane—Anderson Cooper
Notre Dame—Brian Williams
Stanford—Susan Rice
Cornell—Nancy Pelosi
Foothill College—Arne Duncan
Northwestern—Christine Amanpour
University of Tennessee at Knoxville—Al Gore
Texas A & M—General David Petraeus
Westminster College—Jim Leach
University of Maryland—Victoria Reggie Kennedy (widow of Ted)
Emory—Arnold Schwarzenegger
George Washington University—Michelle Obama
Ohio Wesleyan—John McCain
Teachers College at Columbia University—Jill Biden and Spike Lee
Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia.
