Tell-Tail?

Just read something today. Could it be a tell-tail of a sea change coming?

I read that the University of Illinois voted not to give Bill Ayers Professor Emeritus status at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1987. You need to understand that a Professor Emeritus costs the University virtually nothing. It's an honorary position that let's them have library rights and that's about it. The fact that a university board would deny someone this status, is quite extraordinary. Couple this with the fact that the University of Illinois in general and University of Illinois at Chicago campus in particular are historically quite liberal institutions, is this a sea change of things to come on university campuses?

Let's hope so. For far to long university campuses have been havens of liberal thought. Where supposedly free exchanges of ideas were to be encouraged in the students by the staff. Instead they have become intolerant of ideas that do not jibe with their liberal/progressive/socialist/marxist view.

Try being a conservative on a college campus today. Conservatives are marginalized, subjected to name calling that would never be allowed in the opposite direction, refused funding in many cases, refused access to state their positions. In general, the liberals do to the conservatives all the things they claim conservatives do to other people. It reminds me of a line in a song by Todd Snider where he talks about pointing a finger at someone else because when you do no one looks at you. (I'm quite sure Todd would not approve of my using him to make my point about liberals as he seems to be an outspoken one himself. But I do love his music.)

But back to my point. Could this be the tell-tail of a changing political sea at the university level? Is it possible that things have gotten so far out of hand on the liberal side that even they can see that things need to be reeled back in?

Common everyday folks can look at the scenarios where liberals have been in charge for extended periods. Where they have tried to socially engineer their segments of society. California, New York, the universities, unions, one and all have tried to legislate/mandate equality, and in virtually every case it has been an unmitigated disaster.

As any lover of freedom can tell you, in a just society, you earn what you get. You can not bestow these things on people. They must be earned or they are not valued.

Let's hope this is a sign of things to come and not just a passing gust of wind.