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In the 2012 presidential race, according to Federal Election Commission data 96 percent of all campaign contributions from Ivy League faculty and employees
2年總統(tǒng)選舉中 根據(jù)聯(lián)邦選舉委員會數(shù)據(jù) 常春藤盟校教職員工有96%的捐贈
went to Barack Obama
都給了巴拉克·奧巴馬
Ninety-six percent There was more disagreement among the old Soviet Politburo
96%前蘇聯(lián)政治局的差異
than there is among Ivy League donors
都比常春藤盟校捐贈者大
That statistic should give us pause
這一統(tǒng)計數(shù)字發(fā)人深思
and I say that as someone who endorsed President Obama for reelection
雖然我也支持奧巴馬總統(tǒng)的再次當選
because let me tell you, neither party has a monopoly on truth
但我認為任何派別都不應當壟斷真理
or God on its side
或讓上帝總站在它那一邊
When 96 percent of Ivy League donors prefer one candidate to another
96%常春藤盟校捐贈者偏向于某一位候選人
you have to wonder whether students are being exposed to the diversity of views
這就不得不讓人懷疑 這些大學中的學生是否獲得了
that a great university should offer
他們應當獲得的觀點多樣性
Diversity of gender, ethnicity, and orientation is important
性別 人種 取向多樣性都很重要
but a university cannot be great if its faculty is politically homogenous
但一所大學還應當有政治多樣性 否則就稱不上偉大
In fact, the whole purpose of granting tenure to professors
實際上 為教授提供終生教職就是為了
is to ensure that they feel free to conduct research on ideas
保證他們能夠自由地進行研究
that run afoul of university politics and societal norms
而不用害怕研究主題同學校政治和社會規(guī)范不一致
When tenure was created
最初的終身教職
it mostly protected liberals whose ideas ran up against conservative norms
是為了保護同保守派規(guī)范相沖突的自由派思想
Today, if tenure is going to continue
而現(xiàn)在 終身教職如果要繼續(xù)存在
it must also protect conservatives whose ideas run up against liberal norms
就必須保護同自由派規(guī)范相沖突的保守派思想
Otherwise, university research and the professors who conduct it will lose credibility
否則 大學研究和進行研究的教授就會失去信譽
Great universities must not become predictably partisan
偉大的大學不應當戴有黨派的有色眼鏡
And a liberal arts education must not be an education in the art of liberalism
教育不應當成為自由主義的教育
The role of universities is not to promote an ideology
大學的角色不應當是宣揚某一種意識形態(tài)
It is to provide scholars and students
而應當是為學者和學生
with a neutral forum for researching and debating issues
提供問題研究和辯論的中立論壇
without tipping the scales in one direction or repressing unpopular views
不讓天平朝任何一個方向傾斜不抑制不受歡迎的觀點
