Posted on 01/18/2006 7:53:10 PM PST by blam
Rightwing group offers students $100 to spy on professors
· Republican graduate's site prompts witch-hunt fears
· 31 academics listed as 'worthy of scrutiny'
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Thursday January 19, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. "Do you have a professor who just can't stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? If you help ... expose the professor, we'll pay you for your work."
For full notes, a tape recording and a copy of all teaching materials, students at the University of California Los Angeles are being offered $100 (£57) - the tape recorder is provided free of charge - by an alumni group.
Lecture notes without a tape recording net $50, and even non-attendance at the class while providing copies of the teaching materials is worth $10.
But the initiative has prompted concerns that the group, the brainchild of a former leader of the college's Republicans, is a witch-hunt. Several targeted professors have complained, figures associated with the group have distanced themselves from the project and the college is studying whether the sale of notes infringes copyright and contravenes regulations.
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About time the tables turn.
Great way for my son to help pay his college tuition....
I hope they don't get nabbed with cheating. All the professor has to say is that was going to be part of the test. This truly does not seem very smart especially if they are sneaking around. I would think twice about it. Good thought, but could backfire.
Darn right it's a witch hunt. Rats on brooms beware.
Has to do with distributing actual lectures for money, though tests would be far worse.
I don't think there is an issue if during a lecture 25 students report the teacher started to throw darts at a picture of President Bush and then urinated on our flag.
They can still report what needs to be I think.
If the professors don't like the UC Education Code forbiding indoctrination, then they shouldn't be teaching there.
Further evidence that libs will re-define words to
suit their purposes. In this case the word is "spy".
Another example is the word "lie". President Bush ini-
tiates action against Iraq, in part, due to faulty
but widely believed intel information and he is guilty
of lying to the public in the eyes of liberals. I'd like
to have a quarter for every time I've heard a moonbat
blabber, "Bush LIED about WMDs!".
The libs need some cheese with that whine.
I put up with 4 years of attempted indoctrination while I was in law school.....hehehehe.....didn't work!
Just the thought of being monitored will have a useful effect. Those professors who are the least moonbatty will think twice, and rein it in to some degree. The more hardbitten cases will ramp it up to such a paranoid level that they'll appear to have gone completely nuts. Either way, it's effective.
I totally understand and sympathize with you. I worked for G.E. a long time ago and none of this crap took place. There IS something to be said for the good old days. My grandparents would not recogize their country today.
I'm with you. Expose their classroom agenda. After that, get them fired.
Yeh, sure.
Agreed. Do you know who came up with this inane "insurance policy" for teachers? I don't but I'll guess it was someone looking out for his/her job security. Time to end it.
No, your child is not spying, anymore than another student who tapes their professor's words. That's my opinion.
If the prof is teaching the material the students have paid for, they most likely would not resort to taping what occurs in that classroom.
Professors who insist on using the classroom to infiltrate students' minds with their own philosophies about politics, morality, etc. need to be exposed. They are not doing the job that they are paid to do. I say, "Fire them". These profs have to wise up. So do parents footing the bills.
Wow! How do we beat this bias? Maybe conservatives should take a cue from their counterparts as in, scream loudly about what we believe in, organize huge rallies, lobby congress to demand our views be heard, and find colleges for our kids that meet our standards. Yes, I believe they are out there.
When the big bucks stop flowing, as they are, into these liberal colleges, they'll have no choice but to wise up.
How can we make this happen?
Just wondering. How often, if at all, did you challenge your professors?
If you will, enlighten me. I don't know of that.
Meanwhile, I'm sure, divulging state secrets is, you know, "whistleblowing."
Hmm. Is it tied to the laws and funding with regard to "pub ed"? And I ask because all kinds of people attend "lectures" and then write about those lectures in many types of print/video medium.
Further evidence that libs will re-define words to suit their purposes...
They're just fraught with emotion, doncha' know? ;)
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