Go to Fearless Sifting to find the most recent spat between Rep. Steve Nass and our newly selected chancellor, Biddy Martin.
The post is interesting in that it presents the ongoing fight between the right wing and academia. Nass and co. have already begun circulating innuendoes about Martin’s ability to take a “practical” position as a university leader when she has spent her career doing such “impractical” things such as discussion of sexuality, women’s rights, etc.
Most of us are somewhat sympathetic to the view that academics tend to be politically correct, self-indulging, and elitist. What is peculiar about the conservatives at the National Review who wrote the article, however, is that they seem to genuinely believe that the selection of an openly lesbian woman to a position of relative power is actually threatening to the rest of us.
Considering that Martin represents the first openly gay leader of a large university (ever), I can comfortably say that threat is still very small. Calm down right wingers, your children, and possibly even your grandchildren will still be able to go to college, join frats, drink beer, and study business without having to worry about conforming to the whims of the gargantuan army of homosexual academics.
