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A group of students and citizens in Ithaca, New York recently replicated TAE's influential studies tallying the political registration of faculty members at a variety of colleges (see The American Enterprise, September 2002). They completed a particularly thorough survey of 14 separate departments at Ithaca College, including anthropology, business, economics, English, history, politics, religion and philosophy, and TV-radio/journalism.
The results:
* Of 125 faculty members registered to vote, 117 (94 percent) were registered as either a Democrat or a member of the Green Party. Just eight instructors (6 percent of the faculty) were registered as Republicans or Conservatives.
* In many departments where a range of political views ought to be present, there was not a single Republican or Conservative. None in the department of politics. None in the history department.
* Even in the business department, Democrats ...