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Boycotting the Ivy League

"Something is very wrong at our elite universities" says John Fund over at the Opinion Journal. He goes on to say in his article Jihadi Turns Bulldog that:

Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century--the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.

The something that is very wrong with our elite universities is institutionalized Leftism. No mystery here. The American Left has held a monopoly on the mainstream media, Hollywood, and academia throughout most of my conscious life. What we have seen since the Nineties, however, is a slow but measurable release of the stranglehold of Leftism in MSM and Hollywood. But Leftism remains firmly entrenched in American universities and grade schools. It seems that not a week goes by without reading a story such as this.

Armed with tenure, the Ivy League elite Leftists, especially, wield an untouchable swagger. To be fair to Harvard, Alan Dershowitz does that say that the Larry Summers resignation debacle was spearheaded by a vocal few who represent:

[...] only one component of Harvard University and is hardly representative of widespread attitudes on the campus toward Summers. The graduate faculties, the students, and the alumni generally supported Summers for his many accomplishments. [Those responsible include] some of the most radical, hard-left elements within Harvard's diverse constituencies.

Okay fine. But how do we put a end to this instituitionalized - and subsidized - Leftism? How does the free market weed out these most 'radical, hard-left elements,' or at the very least, start to ensure more intellectual diversity at our elite institutions?

For the majority of my career I will be in a position to hire engineers, managers, and, some day, maybe even directors. I see no other solution to this problem than to place universities such as Harvard and Yale on an "Unhirable List," until that time that these institutions stop inculcating a homogenized, group-think education. If enough people in hiring positions begin to make a conscientious decision not to hire from the Ivy Leagues, then the market will eventually correct itself, even if it must be at at the temporary expense of hurting the presumably majority of students who want nothing to do with their professors' politically correct extremism.

My company has taught me to cherish diversity above all else. What better way to celebrate diversity than to only recruit from colleges that offer intellectual diversity?