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Sandra Spieker (Ringo)
David,
My college experience was limited, so I don't feel like my personal experience would add any credibility to the arguement that college professors of certain subjects tend to teach only liberal ideals. First of all I went to a Fashion Merchandising trade school, Miss Wade's. There I learned all about fabrics, designers, accounting and how to paint my face and pluck my eyebrows properly. I also learned the fine art of dodging aggressive males who thought I was a piece of meat, bought and paid for and could enter my dressing room without knocking. There I learned how to be agressive to protect myself.
Years later, following a brief modeling career, and failed marriage, I met Danny and decided to go to college part time in an attempt to up my pay scale and get a degree. So I enrolled at UT Arlington and took a variety of basic freshman and sophmore classes, ie, english 1 & 2, biology 1 & 2 plus a lab, phychology, math (for business majors) and a drawing course. I made A's in all but the math course, which I dropped. It was a survey course of wide proportions which overwhelmed me. This course included algrebra, calculus and differential equations, in one semester. Sheesh, I barely made a passing grade in geometry in high school. All of my professors stayed right on topic and were extremely professional, include Mr. Hard (not kidding that was his name) my math professor. I dropped the course while still passing. It was the drawing course that took the cake and I most enjoyed for many reasons. Also it was the most "liberal" and liberating in many ways. Best part were the live models. Yes, we had two one male and one female. Both completely in the buff. The most interesting part about that, once you got over the shock of a live still naked person sitting in front of you for and entire week of classes, was the reaction and resulting artwork of your fellow students. It was interesting how the drawings turned out. Let us just say that the faint of heart left out all of the genital areas. I guess they just could bring themselves to draw parts that they felt should be covered, or at the ripe old age of 20, they were prudish at heart. Me, I just drew what I saw. It beat the hell out of fighting off vendors at Market Hall, but I was 25, divorced and living on my own. I think I was one of the older students in the class.
My point is this: Whatever character traits you have when you become an adult (18,19, 20), is who you are and who you will be. The foundation has been laid. Your parents had all that time to influence you. So too, their friends, relations, churches, organizations and public school. It is hard for me to believe that a few years in college transforms fine upstanding young men and women, with firm ideas and idealogies impressed by these institutions are so easily unraveled by a few college professors with some radical ideas. That being so, then all those prior years with mom, dad, church and public service, were all a complete and utter waste of time. Either that or the foundations laid were weak to begin with.
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