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Katherine Ernst, a perky, blond and diminutive recent New York University grad, confirms the point. Like many students I queried, Miss Ernst already leaned right when she arrived on campus. But the left-wing propagandizing of her professors made her conservatism rock-solid. "One professor, right after September 11, gave a terrorist-sympathy speech that went, you know: 'Oil, oil, oil, they're poor, we take advantage of them, it's really complicated, blah, blah, blah.' It was something that I and many other students living in our financial-district dorm really enjoyed," Miss Ernst says acidly. "The worst professor I ever had, though, was for a course in administrative law," she recalls. "Every class--no exaggeration--included at least five references to 'Bush was selected.' " A final straw for Miss Ernst came when a professor--"a for-real communist"--walked out of a class he was teaching "to take part in some stupid protest march." So there you have it, says Miss Ernst: "You pay thousands and thousands and the prof takes off to carry a 'no justice, no peace' sign around Union Square Park. How could anybody exposed to this kind of stuff not become a raging right-winger?"