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<p>Most college presidents argue that their campuses and classrooms encourage the free exchange of ideas. Where else but here, they say, can difficult issues be debated?</p> <p>But as campus officials look for ways to accommodate the growing diversity of their student bodies, an increasingly vocal number of students — most of them white and predominantly conservative or Christian — say there is little room for their opinions and beliefs.</p>

Protesting for Extra Credits By NewCriterion.comNewCriterion.com | April 18, 2003 Possibly you have never heard of Citrus College. We confess that we were unacquainted with the community college in Glendora, California—until Professor Rosalyn Kahn catapulted the school to temporary notoriety last month. Professor Kahn is apparently one of those teachers who find it difficult to separate politics from pedagogy. Among her duties was teaching Speech 106, a “strongly recommended” course in “small group communication.” This winter, the communication concerned war with Iraq. Professor Kahn offered her students an extra-credit assignment: write to President Bush to protest the war. Note well:...

Protesting for Extra Credits By NewCriterion.comNewCriterion.com | April 18, 2003 Possibly you have never heard of Citrus College. We confess that we were unacquainted with the community college in Glendora, California—until Professor Rosalyn Kahn catapulted the school to temporary notoriety last month. Professor Kahn is apparently one of those teachers who find it difficult to separate politics from pedagogy. Among her duties was teaching Speech 106, a “strongly recommended” course in “small group communication.” This winter, the communication concerned war with Iraq. Professor Kahn offered her students an extra-credit assignment: write to President Bush to protest the war. Note well:...

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | The setting, Glendora, California, in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains, is picturesque, the name of the school, Citrus College, is downright cheerful, and the title of the course, Speech 106, seems innocuous enough, but Rosalyn Kahn, the professor, found herself at the center of a political firestorm last week after she told her students that they could earn extra credit by writing letters to President Bush protesting the war with Iraq; when several students requested they be allowed to write letters to Bush supporting the war, Kahn informed them that such letters wouldn't be acceptable for...

(CNSNews.com) - Citrus College student Chris Stevens wanted a few extra credit points just like his classmates, so even though he supports President Bush, he decided to write a letter to the White House voicing his opposition to a war against Iraq. But when he found out his letter was actually going to be mailed, he had second thoughts. Stevens took his concerns to the administration and the California College Republicans. He eventually alerted the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a civil rights group that keeps close tabs on student liberty issues. In the span of less than...

<p>A college professor violated her student's free-speech rights when she ordered them to write anti-war letters to President Bush and penalized students who refused the assignment, the California school determined.</p> <p>An apology letter for the incident has been sent to Mr. Bush "explaining the illegitimate nature of the assignment and requesting that all letters associated with the assignment be retracted," said Louis E. Zellers, president of Citrus College.</p>

A speech instructor at Citrus College has been placed on administrative leave after students complained that she told them they could earn extra credit by writing to President Bush to protest a possible war with Iraq, a college official said Friday. Rosalyn Kahn, a part-time instructor at the two-year college in Glendora, told students in January that they would not receive extra credit if they used their letters to express other political views, including support for the war, said Samuel T. Lee, associate dean for language arts and foreign languages at the college. In a separate extra-credit assignment, Kahn also...

Parents, do you know what is going on at your children's schools? A professor at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., forced her students to write letters of appeasement to President Bush and lowered the grades of those who refused. "Professor Rosalyn Kahn demanded that students in her Speech 106, which is a required course, also write to a state senator expressing the same anti-war sentiments. When several students asked if they could write letters supportive of Bush instead, she told them that would not be acceptable and their grades would suffer if they did so," Fox News reported today....

Parents, do you know what is going on at your children's schools? A professor at Citrus College in Glendora, Calif., forced her students to write letters of appeasement to President Bush and lowered the grades of those who refused. "Professor Rosalyn Kahn demanded that students in her Speech 106, which is a required course, also write to a state senator expressing the same anti-war sentiments. When several students asked if they could write letters supportive of Bush instead, she told them that would not be acceptable and their grades would suffer if they did so," Fox News reported today. After...

College to apologize to Bush for professor By Lou Marano From the Life & Mind Desk Published 3/7/2003 10:11 PM WASHINGTON, March 7 (UPI) -- The president of a California college is sending a letter to President Bush apologizing for an instructor who gave students extra credit for writing anti-war missives to the White House. Citrus College President Louis E. Zellers wrote that Prof. Rosalyn Kahn "did abuse her authority" in assigning students in her Speech 106 class to write letters to Bush protesting the possible war with Iraq. "Students were clear in their understanding that they would only receive...