sailracer6's Journal: **No Title**

Apparently this is Vice Week here at Duke. Going down the BC Walkway today I had condoms shoved in my face by the Student "Health" people during their KISS week program, some "women" shouting "chocolate vagina! chocolate vagina!" at me while promoting Duke's production of _The Vagina Monologues_, and, last but not least, a flyer offered to me promoting a rally to be held tomorrow to legalize marijuana. This all in the space of fifteen seconds. And, no, I'm not going to write any more about any of those. How ironic, though, that these all come in the buildup to Valentine's Day, at least from my view.

I also just can't pass up on this choice quote from today's Chronicle, in the article about DCU's advertisement accusing the humanities departments at Duke of extreme liberal bias:

"We try to hire the best, smartest people available," [head of the Philosophy Department] Brandon said of his philosophy hires. "If, as John Stuart Mill said, stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire.

"Mill's analysis may go some way towards explaining the power of the Republican party in our society and the relative scarcity of Republicans in academia. Players in the NBA tend to be taller than average. There is a good reason for this. Members of academia tend to be a bit smarter than average. There is a good reason for this too."

Personally, I would perhaps agree that stupid people tend to be Republicans... but smart people tend to be conservative. Oh, and thank you, Prof. Brandon, for such a wonderful insight into your own complete lack of bias.