Academic freedom under siege from right

Baltimore Sun ^ | 2/28/06 | LIONEL S. LEWIS

[Republicanprofessor]

Ping.

[Morgan in Denver]

Yeah, but some high school students are smarter than the leftist college students. LOL

[1rudeboy]

Well, someone can always "out" the conservative professors on campus. Fair is fair. he

[Gefreiter]

B,
Thank you. Alot of folks, especially hippy filth, seem to be familiar only with one side of the free speech equation.

It's refreshing sometimes to remind them that free speech applies to everybody, including people who point out that they're f*ckwits.

[pogo101]

How is academic freedom being "assault[ed]" by simply publicizing what the teachers say and assign in classes?

OMG HITLER!11!11one1!1eleven!!1

[nightdriver]

Lionel Lewis should go and soak his head. He's only bitching now because it's HIS ox getting gored with these new movements.

Conservatives have been taking it on the chin for a half-century or better with no one coming to their defense, to the extent that now most colleges have less than ten percent conservatives on their faculties.

"Healthy mix of different opinions, cultures and viewpoints?" Don't make me laugh!

Lewis is evidently one of those who "..can't stand the truth!"

[Cicero]

There are probably only a few dozen colleges in the whole country that are not locked down in leftist gulags. These are the new brand of traditional Catholic colleges, and the Bob Jones type Evangelical colleges. Almost everything else is owned lock, stock, and sickle by the left.

[Jeremiah2911]

What's a conservative college professor? Is it like a Unicorn or Easter Bunny? /sarc *grin*

[ozoneliar]

In truth, the American campus is a healthy mix of different opinions, cultures and viewpoints

Blatant lie.

[DoughtyOne]

I'd have a lot more sympathy for these whacked out leftist professors, if they didn't make such a big stink out of other segments of our society not being multicultural enough or being politically diverse enough, when they try to exclude any views other than their sick versions of leftist socialism and Marxism on campus.

Try getting permission to have conservative voices make presentations on campus. It's almost impossible, and if they do show up, they're shouted down or insulted in a myriad of ways.

[DeweyCA]

BTW, last week I made an official complaint to the Norwalk/La Mirada High School board because a high school Langauage Arts class teacher was taking 10 minutes every two weeks to rip on Bush, the Iraq War, no WMDs, Newt is a hypocrite, global warming, ect. This had nothing to do with the assigned lessons on "The Iliad", "The Odyssey", Dante's "Inferno" or the poems of Shakespeare. This also was in 10th grade and it has been going on all year. Two of the School Board members said that they would look into it. Unfortunately, I couldn't convince the student to tape the class. He was afraid of getting caught.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Suspicion and distrust, always a part of campus culture, have been exacerbated.

Wa?

[Antoninus]

"In truth, the American campus is a healthy mix of different opinions, cultures and viewpoints unless, of course, your viewpoint has anything negative to say about homosexuals, muslims, or illegal immigrants, or anything positive to say about Catholics, evangelical Christians, or orthodox Jews. I hope that it will remain so, despite those who would impose political bounties on anyone - professor or student - who might wish to pursue ideas and speak their mind."

Oops. Needed an edit. Much better now.

[Morgan in Denver]

No offense, but I do not believe there are conservatives advocating or involved in hate crimes towards this jerk.

It's too common to make the claim without proof and these claims are often based on their "feelings", not facts. If these guys "feel" it, it's true. It's also called "projection," in that since they do it they assume conservatives do too. It's a lie.

[kingu]

Last spring, a Yale professor, anthropologist David Graeber, was notified that his contract would not be renewed. He claimed it was because he was a publicly visible anarchist. A Columbia University assistant professor of anthropology, Nicholas De Genova, who remarked in a "teach-in" that he wished the Iraq war would involve "a million Mogadishus," in reference to the 1993 conflict in Somalia in which 18 U.S. soldiers were killed, was publicly chastised by the university president and provost.

Ok, you have to be particularly pathetic to whine about being fired because you're an anarchist. If you're an anarchist, you're against the ideal of a government, yet you're working for the government and yet you whine that you got fired from the government? Please, MSM, keep repeating that story - it is extremely entertaining.

As for the "teach-in" - Again, please, repeat these stories. Gosh, I can see half the population reading that and then reading what the penalty was and going - damn, those conservatives are right about our universities - we gotta do something. I wonder how much it cost Columbia in donations...

[in hoc signo vinces]

BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH...if anything, it's a counter attack. The left has been waging a war to misinform an brainwash the youth of this country for decades...

[rottndog]

In truth, the American campus is a healthy mix of different opinions, cultures and viewpoints.


This has to be the biggest B.S. statement of the year. These "academics" really do live in a dreamy la la land. How pathetic.

[proud_yank]

What a maggot. Why not move to Cuba, as opposed to work at a university that is funded by $ generated in a capitalist system. The argument that 'I'm trying to change things from within' simply doesn't cut it.

[Antoninus]

On the Web site of an unofficial alumni organization at the University of California, Los Angeles, there are profiles "exposing" the university's "most radical professors" who "actively proselytize their extreme views in the classroom." These professors are described as "brainless" and are berated for never having left the "fantasy world of college."

Link? I think about another 100 websites of that variety need to be started...

[SuziQ]

So the lib professors are worried, huh? They oughta be; they've been spouting their nonsense virtually unfettered for the last 25 years. It's about time they had to defend their silly utterances.