Cornell Rejects Academic Freedom

FPM ^ | May 7, 2004 | Joe Sabia

[Helms]

A choice between hearing Clinton at the 2004 Cornell Commencencement or jumping off the Gorge:

[Fixit]

To be fair, X-42 will be the convocation speaker, not the commencement speaker, so his talk will be quite easily avoided.

[Helms]

Thanks, how long winded do you think he will be in turning this into a Legacy Rehab Event? There is a good reason Cornell has been chosen.

[AFPhys]

gg: i tend to agree with ontos:

if the socialists at cornell (my alma mater and employer)
were truly interested in academic freedom, and the major
objection to the "six points" were that the language was
"too targeted" - they could have easily added phrases
specifying "government interference", "corporate" and other conflict, "the sciences", etc.

that is not the approach they took. they wished to make it
clear that academic freedom is not needed at cornell.

that's the way it is, and the way they like it.

[Fixit]

He probably just sees it as the first stop on his book tour, assuming he finishes writing it on time.

[SuziQ]

Academic freedom is vital to a university's intellectual culture. When it comes from a genuinely nonpartisan source, then there can be a healthy discussion.

According to the left, the ONLY non-partisan source is another leftist. Conservatives have NO chance to get a fair hearing at most large universities today because their administrations are SOLIDLY in the hands of leftists, and those who drift toward Student Government also trend leftward.

[mo]

oh...I think this needs taking one step further....these clowns IMHO, are reveling in the taking of such freedoms from their fellow Americans at their school...and daring them to do something about it..pretty darn near fightin' words...seems a case for FIRE (Foundation for Indivisual Rights in Education-http://www.thefire.org/index.php

[Blood of Tyrants]

I'd never actually read this Academic Bill of Rights. The principles seem so eminently reasonable, I don't see how anyone could possibly find them objectionable.

The left finds diversity of opinion objectionable. Propaganda only works if you drown out all dissenting ideas.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Soaring Feather]

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