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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Frequent Fox News guest Michael Malice stopped by The Milo Show this week where he discussed his experience at Bucknell University, an institution which he claimed was ripe with anti-intellectualism and elitist snobbery.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Malice lambasted Bucknell’s culture of anti-intellectualism, claiming that students and faculty rarely engaged with ideas that conflicted with their worldview during his time at the university. I highlighted this in February when I compared the warm embrace the university gave a guest speaker from the Black Panther Party who had a history of violent rhetoric with the reception received by the relatively harmless provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, whose visit inspired hostility from both faculty and students.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Malice partially attributed the culture of anti-intellectualism to the radicalism that dominated many of the university’s departments. “The head of the economics department when I was there was a feminist Marxist, and one of her themes was ‘since the laws of economics were discovered by men, they are inherently sexist and need to be rediscovered by women.'”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Like many students, Malice expected his university experience to be intellectually stimulating. Always a skeptic, Malice hope to challenge his own views, as well as the views of others. Instead, Malice claims that his peers rarely ventured outside of their intellectual bubbles. “No critical thought. These are the same people who 30 years ago said ‘you’re eating raw fish, what is wrong with you?’ And now, ‘I’m a foodie, you gotta go to this place, they have the freshest stuff.”</font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos and Malice discussed the series of dissidents that have passed through the gates of Bucknell University over the past 20 years. “What’s weird is that it seems there is a one true ring that gets passed down. Vox Day was there eight years before me. And then right between Vox Day and me was Evan Coyne Maloney, who was called the right-wing Michael Moore, he did a film called IndoctrinateU.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And now they’ve got Tom Ciccotta,” Milo added.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos and Malice suggested that the university’s continued failure to provide a complete education will only give rise to more conservative and libertarian Bucknell dissidents. “I love the idea that the President of Bucknell is always between right-wing shitlords, is sitting there just wondering which of their fresh-faced intake is going to rear his head as the new evil monster,” Yiannopoulos said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At Bucknell and similar institutions, it’s become a reality that conservative and libertarian students aren’t afforded the same university experience as are their progressive peers. An overwhelming majority of university professors and campus guest speakers fall somewhere on the progressive spectrum, and course curriculum is almost exclusively an extension of the instructor’s worldview.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos saved some praise for the university for the end of the segment. “I did have fun at the parties there. I think there’s a little pocket of people [at Bucknell] who are fun and interesting and just don’t give a toss about anything.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You can listen to the full segment below:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tom Ciccotta is a libertarian who writes about Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity for Breitbart. You can follow him on Twitter @tciccotta or email him at tciccotta@breitbart.com</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The most effective way is to ask very simple, basic questions, so they don't think I dislike them," he said, "because I don't dislike them as people. I may not agree with their viewpoints."</font></p><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It's an interview tactic he used effectively on a Bucknell professor, Geoffrey Schneider, the faculty member who spoke about his students' unconscious racism.</font></p><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an interview with the Sun, Mr. Schneider said he was "basically manipulated into appearing" in Mr. Maloney's film. "I was told originally I was going to be interviewed for a film about professors' academic freedom and attempts to censor professors," he said.</font></p><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Schneider, a specialist in what is called institutionalist economics, said the film was edited in a "ridiculous" way that made it seem as though Bucknell students learn only about Marx and feminist political economy. "I also teach Austrian economics," he remarked, saying he was sympathetic to all the ideas taught in the economics courses.</font></p><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"It's silly to say our curriculum is politically correct and biased in favor of liberal ideas, and then to use as an example what is taught in one day, in one course," Mr. Schneider said.</font></p><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He stands by his comments on student racism: "Everybody comes from a specific background, and Bucknell students tend to be white upper-income. If they are white upper-income, they come with certain baggage" - such as negative stereotypes about black Americans.</font></p><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"One of the things we try to do, which so angers conservative students, is to unpack these biases that we all have, to try to analyze them for what they are," he told the Sun.</font></p><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For Mr. Maloney, the professor's comments are the type of thinking that provoked him into making the film in the first place. "He doesn't see political correctness as a problem," Mr. Maloney said.</font></p><p style="line-height: 19.5px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His views on higher education were strongly influenced by Dinesh D'Souza's "Illiberal Education," the 1991 polemic against political correctness, and by the famous case involving a University of Pennsylvania student, Eden Jacobowitz, who was charged with racial harassment after shouting, "Shut up, you water buffalos," at a group of black students.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Maloney describes himself as a "libertarian conservative" who "considers Ronald Reagan his political hero." He told the </span><i style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Sun</i><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">'s Gershman that he was also greatly influenced by <b>Dinesh D'Souza's book, </b></span><i style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b>Illiberal Education</b></i><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b>.</b> While at Bucknell University, he </span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span style="line-height: 25px;">edited the conservative newspaper, the </span><i style="line-height: 25px;">Sentinel</i><span style="line-height: 25px;">. In a pre-Iraq War essay entitled "Give Peace a Chance to Do What, Exactly?" <b>Maloney parroted the Bush/Cheney line, arguing in support of the invasion claiming that "Iraq and al Qaeda complement each other quite well</b>," and that the United Nations needed to "hold Iraq accountable ... [or it] will be committing itself to permanent irrelevance."</span></span><br style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" /></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Maloney learned at an early age about computer programming, and at age twelve wrote an Apple II program called Foscil DOS, “a disk operating system that was marketed through magazines and stores.”<sup id="cite_ref-brain_4-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Coyne_Maloney#cite_note-brain-4" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>He attended Bucknell University, where he published a conservative newspaper, <i>The Sentinel</i>.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He later said that he and other students at Bucknell “were being preached to about sensitivity and tolerance, but when no tolerance was shown to people sharing my opinion, it seemed that the university didn’t care.”<sup id="cite_ref-nysun_1-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Coyne_Maloney#cite_note-nysun-1" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-timeshigh_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Coyne_Maloney#cite_note-timeshigh-2" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">He graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucknell_University" title="Bucknell University" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Bucknell University</a> in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Coyne_Maloney#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Coyne_Maloney#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div>