Censoring Liberal Professors

newsmax ^ | Friday, Jan. 20, 2006 | Susan Estrich

[Flavius Josephus]

Maybe it worked, I haven't seen the harpie in a while. Now she'll probably be on tonight.

[Flavius Josephus]

I agree that many educators think they are brilliantly subversive, and that all this PC crap is wonderful. They are so blind. I haven't been a kid in a while, but I remember when I was and this kind of garbage creates nothing but contempt in the students. They LAUGH at PC. They call it GAY! Hahahaha. Kids act stupid but they have great BS detectors.

They still need to be stopped. The net effect is of a country that isn't as well educated as it should be, and that believes more liberal claptrap than it should.

[prolifedem]

I'm a junior at University of Alaska Anchorage and I have had a suprisingly good experience. Although I believe a majority of my professors are liberal, I feel most of them try to keep the leftist propaganda to a minimum. This might be because a large persentage of the student body is military or the spouses of military personell. I have also found a few conservative professors who keep their politics out of the classroom.
This is my second degree and I wish the other colleges I attended were the same as UAA but unfortunately they were liberal fortresses unwilling to be challenged.
I don't see anything wrong with taping lectures. Why would a professor want to hide what is said in class. Unless it is a fabrication being presented as fact there should be nothing to fear.

[KC_Conspirator]

If a student doesn't like what the professor is saying, he can just change to another course.

Um, this is tax payer money. It is not incumbent on the student to be forced fed trash, to be belittled and threatened with bad grades or possible failure if they don't toe the leftist orthodoxy enforced with the academic jackboot. Furthermore, many of these classes are required and specific to the area of study for these students - how is that serving the tax payer, the student, or the school? I know people who have won lawsuits against universities for such bias.

[Habble Gabble]

Okay but what if some body was taping you all the time for what you say. What about all the things that you post on the Internet were recorded and people would be able to look at them? I guess I understand what you say about how they have to take some courses I just don't agree with making tapes to go be a whiny tattle baby about it. If a professor says he would give you a bad grade because you don't agree with his political bas then you can report him to the college. I just think that making a recording of it is what a crybaby would do instead of stand up for your rights.

[KC_Conspirator]

Making a recording is standing up for your rights. You think the college administrators have done anything to protect students? What world do you live in? Are you not aware of the cryptol-fascist left on campus?

I know a woman who had to go to court and win a case against a major university for their efforts to sabotage her teaching career because of her conservative views. I personally was purged from a required class because I refused to write a paper on Anne Richards instead of my chosen topic, Margaret Thatcher. See the professor did'nt like that idea at all, even though it was my choice.

Furthermore, everybody is accountable for what they say. If I were to say something rascist or worse at work I would be held accoutable. But apparently you believe that liberals on campus are immune from saying hate or bigoted speech.

Part of me wants to give you the benefit of the doubt, but the other half smells a troll.

[Brucifer]

I give my students permission to tape me if they ask. However, it would be too much of a pain to tape every class regardless of the reason. I think that while the days of the screaming liberal professors are not over, the students are far less inclined to pay attention to them. If you want students to write a certain way for a grade most of them will do it just to get through the class. They do not respect professors that beat them over the head with politics.

Having said that, you have just got to see the look of relief on some of my students' faces when they discover that not only does their hippie English professor vote conservative, he thinks everyone should have an assault weapon and know how to use it. I'm not an ideologue, wouldn't be prudent. We come to my class to learn, not beat people up for various heretical opinions. And to be sure, you can enjoy the subject and learn at the same time. If I do my job properly, and teach them to find the truth on their own, they won't turn stupid or Liberal when the semester is over. Teach a student to fish... well you get it. I'd say more, (and maybe rewrite) but then I'd be late to class. Don't worry about the students so much. From where I stand, I think we're winning!

[longtermmemmory]

students have been taping professors for decades in order take better notes for study.

The comments of professors are not "private" they are PAID for.

[flixxx]

The students pay for the class, but not the right to tape the professor's comments. As I mentioned before, I have not problem with students taping my lectures as it is done for note service. I also have nothing to 'hide'...

Nevertheless from a University perspective I think that they would side with the professor should he/she not want students to tape their lectures.

[Habble Gabble]

I guess I better stop making opinions. People are calling me troll when I have a n opinion that is different than what every body else says. Also I get a lot of the hassle for not having a sense of humor and not knowing sarcasm. I will stick with it but one guy who wrote to me said I should only read before posting since I am only new here. I think he's maybe right.

[KC_Conspirator]

We are very tough on newbies. Sorry for the baptism by fire.

[Habble Gabble]

And plus I don't think its a big conspiracy every time. Thats all the time what cry baby liberals say oh its a big conspiracy of the right. I think if it was facts then the college would do some thing or you could get a lawyer and sue there butt off. There I go with an opinion again and here comes the people telling me I'm a troll again!!!!