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(05-21-2019, 02:04 PM)Dill Wrote: Of course we will disagree. You don't see a university as a university.

For you professors are "employees" on the clock, bringing politics to the workplace.  
Or are they more like soldiers, who represent the US whenever in uniform?

That's why their actions are "political" but their employers' is not.
If you manage a McDonald's, you don't want the kids at the cash register wearing "Go Biden" buttons on their uniform or refusing to serve Sarah Sanders.

We will further disagree that a university professor's job is to teach submission to authority--to employers.

And that submission is not political, but resistance is.

I think viewing schools or universities as businesses/corporations and not something completely different gets a lot of people hung up when they start talking about how they should operate. 

It also ignores the history of these institutions and how political protest and the free expression of ideas has shaped their importance.