Academic Witch-Hunt (This time, it's a "racist" professor at Southern Illinois University)

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 27, 2005 | Thomas Ryan

[sheik yerbouty]

If they were all NOI, why can't the RICO Act be used against Calypso Louie?

[glorgau]

Honestly, there's no point writing those women.

Why write when you can speak directly to the source?

Kay J. Carr kjcarr@siu.edu - 618-453-7877
Germaine Etienne getienne@siu.edu - 618-453-4391
Robbie Lieberman robl@siu.edu - 618-453-4391
Mary McGuire mmcg@siu.edu - 618-453-5242
Rachel Stocking stocking@siu.edu - 618-453-7875
Natasha Zaretsky zaretsky@siu.edu - 618-536-2233

[freepatriot32]

Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.

[freepatriot32]

he can either sue every one of his accusers for slander and stand up for himslef and explain how its a great thingto teach history in a school setting and point out the ideology of everyone of his accusers and go on the offencive with as much zeal as they are or like every other spineless coward with an r by his name he can bend over for every one of them and then say thank you sir may I please have another and die the thousands deaths of the coward.if he chooses that route he deserves whatever happens to him from now on

[Sirc_Valence]

Thanks to both of you for the email info.

[Sirc_Valence]

I have a better idea than lawsuits. We can get FreeRepublic to start a "Latest News On..." AMERICAS EDUCATION CRISIS where we can pool all our thoughts together and confront this issue in an organized manner.

Support David Horowitz in his Academic Bill of Rights LEGISLATION campaign. I suggested this to the webmaster here at FR under the title: FReep Academia.

Here's a few exerpts from the link above:

When I first floated the idea of my Academic Bill of Rights in Colorado, for example, one of my first stops was to meet with Elizabeth Hoffman, then president of the University of Colorado. President Hoffman was very cordial, but told me there was no problem of missing intellectual diversity at her university and besides its official academic freedom regulations already contained all the protections I was proposing.

Previously, the arguments made by defenders of the status quo were pretty much exhausted by Elizabeth Hoffman’s two points: We have no problem, and even if we did, the protections you’re proposing are already in place in our own regulations.

Hoffman was to learn the hard way that she actually did have a problem when the public controversy generated over the Ward Churchill affair led to the termination of her job. I had warned her when we met that the monolithic character of her faculty was a scandal waiting to happen. The lack of intellectual diversity on college faculties has produced a new phenomenon in American academic life: the presence of tenured extremists on faculties, and not only at some universities, but at virtually every one.

Moreover, virtually all of these academic freedom provisions are formulated as faculty rights or faculty responsibilities. Virtually none codify rights that apply specifically to students.

Armstrong referred to a biology class at a campus in the Pennsylvania State University system that was entirely taken up with a showing of Farenheit 9/11, Michael Moore’s propaganda film against the Bush Administration. The film was shown to students during the presidential election campaign of 2004. The biology professor’s agenda in showing the film obviously had nothing to do with biology and was clearly political.

[Sirc_Valence]

This is why we need a "Latest News On..." AMERICA'S EDUCATION CRISIS link above all the posts like the other "Latest News On..." links.

Thanks for putting up the numbers.

[jigsaw]

Robbie Lieberman

[sauropod]

Somehow we need to stand up against thought control Stalinists like Robbie Lieberman.

[Abcdefg]

ping for later reading

[freepatriot32]

has that pic been photoshopped lol :-)

[jigsaw]

Now, now, fp32. Remember she loves you. She cares about you. She loves everyone.     /smirk

[jigsaw]

And, I'm sure the author meant nothing by naming this piece: Academic Witch-Hunt.

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

Good post. Frightening, though.

[Redleg Duke]

Man! That broad fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!

[Land_of_Lincoln_John]

has that pic been photoshopped lol :-)

Robbie's parents were communist folk singers, acc. to the author. Makes me think the photo is genuine!!!

[Velveeta]

I hadn't ever heard of the Zebra killings.
Thanks for posting this.

[vollmond]

Is that Geddy Lee?

[junta]

Start by asking if she thinks herself morally superior and by what standard.

[LS]

Jon Bean is a fine guy. I wrote him his rec for tenure at SIU.