Northern Arizona University in Deep Blue Territory

By Travis Owen
05/02/2010

Students at Northern Arizona University are aware of how active the NAU Conservative Group that I am president of is during the school year. This school year, we have hosted a Berlin Wall event that commemorated the 20th anniversary of the fall of that wall and victory of capitalism over communism.

We are constantly promoting conservatism at Northern Arizona through our protesting of a Van Jones speech, a No Che Day and a showing of documentary “Not Evil, Just Wrong”.
However, we decided to take up The Leadership Institutes Deep Blue Campus to find out the political leanings of our professors and administrators through their political donations to political parties.

We must now report and make aware to our fellow students that Northern Arizona University is in deep blue territory, as 32 administrators or professors gave a total of $20,517 to the two political parties in the previous presidential election cycles with 80 percent going to Democratic candidates.

28 people gave to a total of $16,316 to the Democrats for those parties’ presidential candidates, while 4 people gave $4,201 to the Republican candidates or 20 percent of the donations from North Arizona University faculty and staff.

The fact of the matter is that Universities are intended to be a place of academia, diversity and open mindedness. What is occurring here is a blatant neglect by the University to hold true even somewhat to the principle of diversity of opinion.

We want to thank Campus Reform and The Leadership Institute for supplying us with this idea as we are now prepared to engage students with an alternative political ideology as judging by the donations to the major two major political parties, are professors seem incapable of doing.