my first attempt
(this was created on: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2004 8:08 PM)

great ... now, what? start as a journal? nah .... i don't want my stories to be read by everyone .... well, i'll proceed as i get inspired ....

COLLEGE PROFESSORS 90% DEMOCRATS

Ivy League professors lean heavily to the left according to a poll conducted by Luntz Research. More than 80% of Ivy League professors who voted in 2000, voted for loser Al Gore and only 9 % voted for George Bush. Only three percent of those teachers polled described themselves as Republicans. The majority of professors voted for Bill Clinton as the best president over the past forty years.

Democratic professors outnumber Republicans at least 7-to-1 in the humanities and social sciences according to a national survey featured in a New York Times article. In a separate study of professors in engineering and the hard sciences at Berkeley and Stanford, the ratio of Democrats to Republicans is 9-5o-1.

One party domination in academia stifles independent thinking, causes minority thought to be discriminated against and betrays the comittment to intellectural diversity which should be at the core of any institution of higher learning.

Mark Baueriein, an English professor at Emory Unviversity in Atlanta writes, "Any political position that dominates an institution without dissent deteriorates into smugness, complacency and blindness ... Groupthink is an anti-intellectural condition.

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni conducted a survey of students' perceptions of faculty partisanship. Of 568 students polled at the top fifty U.S. colleges, forty-nine percent said some "presentations on political issues seem totally one-sided," and forty-six percent said "professors use the classroom to present their personal political views."

THE HERO

The year may be young, but it is not too early to nominate the No. 1 feel-good story of 2007. Somebody is going to have to work awfully hard to outdo Wesley Autrey, a true hero in a city where the word "hero" is overworked to the point of losing all meaning.

Unless you're just back from Neptune, you will recognize Mr. Autrey as the construction worker who jumped from a subway platform to save a film student who had sufferred a seizure and fallen to the tracks at 137th Street and Broadway. Mr. Autrey shoved the student into a trough between the rails and held him there as a No.1 train rolled over them -- catastrophe mere inches away.

You can't make up stories this good, or come up with a more appealing hero than this 50-year-old working man. He went to City Hall yesterday with his two young daughters, to be honored by the mayor. The word "hero," even "superhero," hung in the air, thick as a morning fog. Mr. Autrey was having none of it.

"Superhero, superhero," he said, almost mocking the word. "I don't feel like a superhero."
I just did it," he said, "because I saw someone in distress,."

Maybe so. It is safe to say, though, that precious few of us would dream of doing what he did. The oods are far greater that we would end up like the film student, Cameron Hollopeter, 20. Not that we would necessarily tumble onto the tracks. But falling ill in the subway? It happens all the time.

In fact, "sick customer,": to use the official lingo, is a major reason for train delays, hundreds of them every month.

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