Jeff Brokaw writes, "These are scary times for college-bound kids with actual working brains, and for their parents. I.e., those who are not looking to get brain-washed by aging liberal hippies":

You shouldn’t have to pretend to be an America-hating radical lefty, just to avoid pissing off your professors. Nor should you, as a normal student or as an esteemed University president, have to pretend that women are identical to men in every way, just to avoid pissing off touchy feminists and their sisters-in-arms.

The fact that some kids feel they must do exactly that is a big problem all by itself, without even addressing the actual damage done to our kids by these people.

On the flipside, Stefan Beck of The New Criterion says that exposure to such hardened leftists is actually a plus for incoming conservative college kids:

As I've written before on this blog, the predominance of these blue-state academics on campus is a problem--but hardly for conservatives. It is a problem for liberal students. These poor specimens must often retreat like turtles from debate, because they know nothing of conservative positions--except from their professors' testimonials, which rely on dilution or caricature. Meanwhile, conservatives are given every opportunity to "know the enemy," and they can test and strengthen their own opinions in the process. They ought to be thanking their instructors for providing a daily object-lesson in enemy S.O.P.

Of course, there are always those kids in the middle: I was fairly apolitical when I arrived at college--in today's times, where public school is politicized seemingly from kindergarten on, I wonder how many of today's kids arrive at universities that way.