By Brian Carnell

Tuesday, November 16, 1999

Once in awhile I have to take a break from ridiculing the Left to giving the Right it's just desserts. For the past week or so the Accuracy In Academia site has been touting its December 3rd conference on "Sex, Lies and Higher Education," presumably devoted to how America's university's are rotting the moral fiber of the country.

In a case of very bad timing, this conference will come on the heels of the incredibly bizarre controversy at Hillsdale College, the preeminent American conservative college. It seems that for the last 20 years or so Hillsdale College president and prominent conservative George Roche had been having an affair with his daughter-in-law, Lissa.

Roche divorced his wife recently and for awhile Lissa and her husband were living in Roche's house. Then Roche fell in love with another woman, and Lissa put a bullet through her head after confessing the affair to her husband.

Hillsdale College is dealing with the scandal in very Clintonian fashion. First, they are trying to spin the suicide to make Lissa look mentally unstable. Second, after Roche abruptly renounced his resignation, his departure is being blamed on health reasons (the classic technique to explain power changes in the former Soviet Union).

But getting back to the AIA, their promotional material seems to blame "professor Alfred Kinsey and the devastating consequences those studies have had on the health and moral fabric of the nation." Well, when the most prominent conservative educator in the country can't keep himself out of his daughter-in-law's pants, blaming Kinsey for the moral woes of the country seems a bit of a stretch.

Sources:

Sex, Lies, and Conservatism. Tucker Carlson & Andrew Ferguson, The Weekly Standard, October 5, 1999.

Horror at Hillsdale. John J. Miller, National Review, November 12, 1999.

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