i should not say, but certainly harvey mansfield is well over 70 now. many of my professors at the time were certainly well over 65. they had great experience and happened to be good teachers. why should we arbitrarily kick them out just because some people decide they are not going to do their job anymore? >> if i have tenure at the school, does that really mean they cannot fire me? >> it is technically not supposed to mean that, but i have talked to many, administrators who have said it is almost never worth it to fight that battle. we mentioned at churchill a moment ago. when i started this book, a result of was not a point to mention more churchill on every page. -- ward churchill on every page. he will be old news. the week the book was published, the colorado state supreme court decided to hear his case. six years after he was fired, he is still fighting this battle. you are the president, hank brown, who has stepped down. he must wake up every morning and think this man will not give up. it cost the university so much money to get rid of these pe

i took a government crisis with harvey mansfield, peter berkowitz, and a couple other professors who would classify themselves as conservatives. what i really liked about the professors i had was that they left politics at the door. i took classes on chaucer and shakespeare and plato. even mansfield, a well-known conservative outside the classroom, we did not sit around discussing republicans talking points or something like that. in fact, i remember his last sort of popular book was on manliness. i took a graduate seminar with him. i think it was my senior year. a number of let's just call the radical feminists showed up. i think they wanted to disrupt the class and get their views heard and protest the idea that we would even have such a class. mansfield sits down and he's a very mild-mannered man. he just sort of start talking about plato and courage. i think those women were sort of like where are we going from here, i thought we were going to talk about gloria steinem or that we would talk about some sexist things that we could start harassing. my point is that so many of the pr

so i took government classes with harvey mansfield, with peter berkwiths and with a couple of other number of professors who i think would classify themselves as conservatives. but what i really liked about the professors that i had was that they left politics at the door. i mean, i took classes on spakespeer and plato and even harvey, who was a well-known conservative outside of the classroom, we didn't sit around discussing republican talking points or something like that. in fact, i remember his last sort of popular book was on manliness. and i took a grad wult seminar with him, i think it was my senior year, and a number of kind of let's call them radical feminists showed up. i think they wanted to disrupt the class and get their views heard and protest, you know, the idea that we would even have such a class. and harvey sits down and he's a very sort of mild-manrd guy and he just sort of talking about plato and courage. and i think these women were just sort of like, where do we go from here? i thought we were going to talk about gloria steinham or about some sexist pigs that we could