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Quote:There's some conservative groups - and even conservative professors - on campus. They're in the minority - as to be expected - but they're there.

Why is that 'as to be expected'? Why should those of us who are conservative 'expect' to be underrepresented among a state college faculty?

Michigan is divided 50:50 along voting lines, in fact Trump won Michigan in 2016. I assume that means the taxpayers of this state are pretty much divided along the same lines.

What should be 'expected' at a public university is the composition of faculty beliefs reflects the open public of that state. It doesn't have to be 50:50, but it shouldn't be 95:5 or 90:10. I don't believe in quotas, but if Western's hiring offices are doing their jobs right we should have more representative numbers.

Certainly the Western Herald should have at least one journalist commenting from a conservative perspective. That is hardly asking too much. If they choose to comment on national political issues-which they do-than having representation along the lines of the percentages among the taxpayers is what is fair. Not having any-and tolerating that situation-is unfair. This is a state taxpayer supported university afterall, they shouldn't be promoting only views that only one side of the political debate agrees with.