To be sure, the data are a political snapshot of only part of the university. Students who study social sciences or the humanities at the University of Colorado, or who wish to become teachers or journalists, evidently find themselves in an environment in which liberal professors don't merely dominate the faculty, they essentially are the faculty. Far from exhibiting any unease over this ideological hegemony, university administrators are pledged, in effect, to accentuate it. Not only does the chancellor have five separate advisory committees pursuing such diversity, he created the position of associate vice chancellor for diversity. Political and academic conservatives are unlikely to flourish, or even to hold their own, under the reign of such relentless commissars.
College students can and do think for themselves, of course.
Even if they couldn't, most professors no doubt remain conscientious scholars less interested in indoctrination than in honest inquiry. Even the Apostles included one dissenter, and they were only 12. Mr. Carroll is editorial page editor of the Rocky Mountain News .