Hawkeye Discrimination

Professors at state universities continue to deny the existence of bias on their faculties despite mounting evidence of same. “27-0 at the University of Iowa,” Professor Mark Moyar writes on National Review Online. “It’s not the score of a Hawkeye football game.”

“ It’s the number of Democrats versus the number of Republicans in the University of Iowa history department, and it has Iowans in an uproar.” Professor Moyar knows whereof he speaks.

He tried to add the number one to the right side of that ratio, unsuccessfully. “In its communications with the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity, the search committee did make a feeble attempt to justify rejection of my application,” Professor Moyar writes. “Search committee members stated that they had read my book Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 and that it ‘did not consider any Vietnamese sources.’”

“Triumph Forsaken actually contains over two hundred citations of Vietnamese-language sources.” Currently, Professor Moyar holds the Kim T. Adamson Chair at the U. S. Marine Corps University.

Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.