God and Man at Yale Turns 60

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Real Clear Politics:

Yesterday the William F. Buckley Jr. Program, a fledgling student run organization at Yale University, held a one-day conference and gala dinner featuring distinguished conservatives—including a keynote address by William Kristol and remarks by Henry Kissinger, James Buckley, Priscilla Buckley, and Christopher Buckley—to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the publication of God and Man at Yale. This unusual happening suggests that much has changed at Yale since 1951 when the brash and brilliant twenty-five year old Buckley burst upon the national scene with his eloquent polemic against his alma mater’s educational policy. It also reveals how little has changed.

Inspired by a residential college seminar (a class offered outside of regular departmental courses) on Buckley in the fall semester of 2010, Lauren Noble, who graduated in June, teamed up with a few friends to launch the Buckley Program in the spring semester of 2011. The mission was “to promote intellectual diversity at Yale University” by “providing a home for a diverse collection of serious conservative thought.” The program got off to a flying start, hosting six speakers in its first semester.

Half way into its second semester, the program has raised around $80,000 from alumni and conservative foundations, sponsored summer internships, and is providing funding to support a regular course on Buckley’s thought next semester in the political science department taught by a full time faculty member. In coming years the program is hoping to expand, hosting more speakers and supporting more courses.

Neither faculty nor administration have raised objections nor otherwise stood in the program’s way. Indeed, professors from classics, political science, computer science, the law school, and the medical school sit on the Buckley Program’s advisory board. And Yale President Richard Levin delivered opening remarks at yesterday’s conference.

That students have felt the need and had the opportunity to increase exposure to conservative ideas on campus is a tribute to the intellectual and political movement Buckley launched.

At the same time, it is a measure of how far liberal education at Yale must still be reformed that the Buckley program is entirely a student organization, that if it weren’t for Noble and a few other undergraduates, conservative voices would remain hard to hear on campus and conservative ideas would still be difficult to find in Yale’s curriculum.
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Conservative diversity on college campus, sixty years in the making...

[Valin]

WestVirginiaRebel

 

Inspired by a residential college seminar (a class offered outside of regular departmental courses) on Buckley in the fall semester of 2010, Lauren Noble, who graduated in June, teamed up with a few friends to launch the Buckley Program in the spring semester of 2011. The mission was “to promote intellectual diversity at Yale University” by “providing a home for a diverse collection of serious conservative thought.” The program got off to a flying start, hosting six speakers in its first semester.

 

Half way into its second semester, the program has raised around $80,000 from alumni and conservative foundations, sponsored summer internships, and is providing funding to support a regular course on Buckley’s thought next semester in the political science department taught by a full time faculty member. In coming years the program is hoping to expand, hosting more speakers and supporting more courses.

 

Neither faculty nor administration have raised objections nor otherwise stood in the program’s way. Indeed, professors from classics, political science, computer science, the law school, and the medical school sit on the Buckley Program’s advisory board. And Yale President Richard Levin delivered opening remarks at yesterday’s conference.

 

Oh this will put the cat among the canaries!

 

Reminds me of this....

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."

C.S. Lewis