My Alma Matter, Georgia Tech, has sunk to new levels of political correctness.

I started Tech in 1992 and FINALLY graduated in 1998. During that time I saw the college change. When I started, Tech was still a very conservative institution, but then in the mid 1990’s they started adding more management, international affairs and STAC (Science, Technology and Culture) majors to what had been totally an engineering school. As a result, the types of students attracted to Tech began to change. The campus turned more and more liberal. By the time I got married and moved off campus in 1995, I could hardly recognize the student body that was there when I started only 3 short years earlier.

I had a run in with a certain English professor my second quarter at Tech. Good old Anne Balsamo. I wrote about her previously here:

I was enrolled in English 102 and had a woman professor named Anne Balsamo. This was the first quarter after the first President Bush had lost and she was absolutely giddy about her boy Clinton being President. We had to read Maya Angelou and watch the inauguration as well. The first day of class she stood up and told us that she was a liberal and that if there were any conservatives in the class or anyone that liked Rush Limbaugh, they had best be on their way out the door. She went on and on about this liberal agenda and that piece of legislation. It got rather humorous, as at that time the vast majority of Tech students were conservative leaning. I guess I had a smile on my face while I was contemplating the next ten weeks of hell that I was about to go through when she stopped talking, looked at me and asked, “Do you have anything you wish to add to this discussion?” I looked around as if to say, “Me?” Then I said, “No Ma’am.” To which she replied, “Then stop smirking!” I kid you not. Everyone looked at me and their looks told me they were thinking the same thing I was, that I had best get out of that class. Well I did not leave and I refused to buckle under to her liberal mantra. As a result, I got a “C”. Go figure.

So it is with great sadness that I have to report the experience of a Conservative writer trying to speak at Georgia Tech. If I were a wealthy donor, you can bet your ass that I would be taking Tech’s President out to dinner in order to look him in the eye and ask, “What the hell?” Then I would promptly remove all my money from the school. Read this article and even if you did not go to Tech, you will be pissed off.

The piece is by Mike Adams, a staunch fighter against the diversity movement. Some of what he found at Tech are as follows:

Imagine further that the school classifies student groups as either “social”, “cultural”, or “political” in nature. The school enforces a rule that allows funding for all groups except for those classified as “political”.

Then imagine that the “Pride Alliance” group, which is allowed to protest in favor of gay marriage and other political causes, is classified as a “social” group. So they get funding.

And, to make matters worse, the Arab Student Association, which is allowed to protest U.S. Policy towards Israel, is classified as a “cultural” group. So they get funding.

And, of course, the College Republican group - a group involved in political activities not so popular with the denizens of diversity - is classified as a “political” group. So they don’t get any funding.

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Imagine further that you are a graduate student and you are ordered to take down an American flag that hangs above your desk in the teaching assistants’ office. You are told that the flag might “offend” foreign students.

Go read the entire thing. It is very depressing.

He apparently struck a nerve with Tech’s President, Wayne Clough. President Clough wrote an angry letter to the school paper and to Mr. Adams. Mr. Adams response can be found here:

Wayne Clough, the President of Georgia Institute of Technology, seems to be making the same argument nearly every college administrator makes when I expose First Amendment violations at the college or university he (or she) is supposed to be running. That argument consists of five words:

“Liar! Liar! Pants on fire!”

In response to my recent column “Colleges to Avoid, Part II,” Clough stated - to a Tech alumnus - that I am “confused” on a number of issues and that I have reported facts that the university is unable to “verify.” In addition to expressing “disappointment” that alumni would believe my article, Clough laments my lack of “courtesy” for not contacting the school with my “concerns.” This, he suggests, should have been done before writing my column. All of this is intended to demonstrate Georgia Tech’s zero tolerance policy towards censorship.

It is amazing that when presented with facts, the Left goes bat sh*t crazy and pulls out all the stops to ensure that you are painted as one who does not understand or who can not comprehend what is really going on. It is all a mistake you see.

(hat tip to reader Larry K.)

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