Liberalizing University Students -- or Not

Here's a story that's related to my Feb. 27, 2012, post,

"Liberalizing University and College Students"   Does College Make You Liberal -- or Do Liberals Make Colleges?

Lately Rick Santorum has been singing every tune from the Culture Wars: Greatest Hits album. So of course he soon came around to attacking higher education, charging that going to college makes people less religious, that universities are "indoctrination mills" and even that liberal Penn State profs docked his grades to punish his conservatism when he was a student there.

It didn't take long for liberals to produce liberal academic social science to disprove Santorum's claims about the secularizing influence of academia. How perfect: but don't expect Santorum to change his mind upon being refuted. We have liberal academic social science on that, too -- and it suggests he's more likely to double down on his original assertion.

The rest of the article is at

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-mooney/does-college-make-you-lib_b_1312889.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false