Drath,
Okay, I agree there are general courses the first 2 years. I believe to satisfy my writing requirement I took Intro to Hong Kong Film Making (Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee all the way). There was an advanced composition course somewhere in there as well, but I don't think I went or did very well (I was more interested in my Russian Language courses). That was everything I was required to take. My point was that as a scientist, I didn't have to worry about indoctrination because no one cared one way or another. In essence I was saying, "don't take a women's lib class if you don't want to hear feminist theory."
1) "The national average for Republicans in college History Departments is 0" This is not an accurate statement. I know this because I tried looking it up. It occurred to me, after wasting some time, that this is the sort of thing which would be difficult to measure. In fact, how could one accurately know this? The closest I could find was a study done by UCLA which reported nationally professors broke down into: 5.3% far left, 42.3% liberal,34.3% middle, 17.7% conservative and .3% far right.
So, there seem to be more liberal professors, but you cannot claim that this is an overwhelming majority.
http://www.ilaaup.org/news/IllinoisAcademe/il_academe_2004sp_Academic_Freedom.html
2) elections???? So, this vast conspiracy is to get parents to pay money to let left-wing nutjobs educate their children so that they vote democrat? You're kidding right? Thats an awful lot of work for something which will not be effective most of the time. What about all the scientists and engineers who never bother to take a poli sci course? How are they being indoctrinated?
3) Were you able to show (successfully) that her desire to fail you was directly tied to your choice to be a college republican? Or did it have to do with your work? What grades were you receiving on your papers? What I'm getting at here is that NO professor should (or can) fail a student who receives good marks on their work and is present in class. You successfully fought back and passed the class. So, the system works, doesn't it? If the system were truly biased against republicans, then when you brought your case up to the board (or whoever) they would have said "so?, you fail".