Must be something in the Water....

Mamma, don't let your babies go to University in Ontario....

Have Ontario Universities become bastions of unthinking, left-wing groupthink?

In the last few months we've seen Queens set up campus Thought Police. What next, the Junior Anti-Sex League?

Then we had the ever tolerant Carleton University Student Association who were forced to back down from their withdrawal of support of Shinerama on the basis of it being a "..disease that affects primarily white males" after a widespread backlash from their student body (well done Students of Carleton U), Carleton Alumni, and the wider public.

Last week we had a committee of so-called academics attempting to impose Human Resources and academic policy for all Universities in Ontario this wonderfully tolerant, and enlightened motion.

I guess the students at Guelph were feeling a bit left out. How else would you explain this? To Scott Gilbert, I would respectfully suggest that you consider what you write prior to publication. The people whom you so glibly mouth off about and blithely compare to Paul Bernardo are doing far more for this country than you ever have to this point. Given your attitude, I expect you will likely finish school with your Liberal Arts degree, go join some NGO that lives off the government teat. There, you will spend your days attending forums and conferences with others of your ilk talking in circles and decrying the evils of the military-industrial complex as you complain that the US, NATO or the Canadian Government isn't landing troops in whichever hotspot that has categorically stated that they will shoot at them if they do.

Note (h/t Raphael): I have since learned that Mr. Gilbert is studying Environmental Engineering. As an Engineering grad myself, I am doubly disgusted. Given his propensity for hyperbole, not to mention his obvious inability to dispassionately parse facts, I wouldn't want him anywhere near any project with which I was involved. I still stand by my remarks that he will end up working for an NGO.

Guelph Alumni, I hope you are paying attention here. The next sound that the administration of the University should be hearing is the boom of a thousand alumni chequebooks slamming shut. At its best, the concept of a University is that it is supposed to be a place to explore ideas and foster discussion. Recycling marxist ideology, painting those with whom you disagree as War Criminals, and attempting to suppress discussion of all points contrary to your dogma of the day is the antithesis of this.