A reporter for the student newspaper at North Idaho College found out just how tolerant her nominally diverse campus really is when she tried to start a conservative club there last Fall. “It’s been two months now since the club was first formulated, and we still don’t have an adviser,” Jessica Schreindl reported on December 11, 2006 in The Sentinel at NIC. “It’s been a difficult (if not impossible) task to find one.”
“Why? Because overwhelmingly the school leans left while we lean right. While the faculty and staff are entitled to their own views, ours have not been represented.”
“That’s just where it begins.” Unfortunately, no end is in sight.
“Posters that we spent hours making with our own money have been torn down, xes drawn through them and mean, childish comments written on them,” Schreindl writes. “Are you guys going to burn pictures of black people?” one of her classmates asked her about her American Movement Club.
“Where’s the tolerance?” Schreindl asks. It’s a good question.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
