Well, as a student at UCLA... (Score 2, Insightful)

As a current student at UCLA I've found that most of the professors are left-leaning and do indeed every now and then tell a Bush joke or make a reference to politics. But you know what? That's to be expected. Hell, in high school during senior year they teach you in AP Econ that people who go to college become more left-leaning, and that a better education correlates to becoming more liberal. I expected there to be more liberalism at UCLA, and I was right. As a liberal on social issues and conservative on economic issues, I think it's important to get information from both political sides, but I don't think the appropriate way to do that is to go about slandering the other. I realize that being a Bush supporter and attending a class where the teacher jabs at the President may be demoralizing, but isn't part of the college experience to learn how to cope with people who don't believe in the same thing as you do? Granted you shouldn't bring in too much politics into a classroom where it doesn't belong (like CS), but I think it's important for the professor to be able to say what they feel. Even if you disagree it at least gives him or her more personallity and they become more interesting.