August 30, 2007 - 1:00am
By Gabriel Arana
In a Sun column some time ago, a graduating senior prided himself on having gone through Cornell and having remained a “conservative” — one of the few on a campus that pushes the “liberal agenda.” Reflecting on his experience in the community, he lamented that while racial, ethnic and sexual diversity are plentiful at Cornell, the campus is unfortunately bereft of “ideological diversity.”
While this paean to diversity invokes all the positive associations of the term, “ideological diversity” is at heart deeply anti-intellectual.
