“Radical” UCLA professors targeted by pseudo-alumni group — Shades of the Third Reich!
This is just to creepy to accept, no matter what kind of jerks these profs are.
An alumni group is offering students up to $100 per class to supply tapes and notes exposing University of California, Los Angeles professors who allegedly express extreme left-wing political views.
The year-old Bruin Alumni Association on its Web site says it is concerned about professors who use lecture time to press positions against President Bush, the military and multinational corporations, among other things.
The site includes a list of what the group calls the college’s 30 most radical professors.
These people should be ashamed of themselves for this action. Is this Cuba?
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Andrew Jones
Why is it that the right-wingers around here are so mystified that a lot of professors are liberals? I mean, I hate to mention the elephant in the room, but could it be that the majority of people who are qualified and interested in being university professors happen to be liberal? If you don’t want to be lectured by a liberal professor, just don’t take the class. Find yourself a nice, conservative university with lots of conservative professors where you can be comfortable.
Apparently, not all Republicans are comfortable with the idea of these right wing witch hunts, either:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1691269,00.html
David Brooks wrote a column in the New York Times about how conservatives get squeezed out at hiring and tenure time at universities.
So apparently for this site, if a conservative speaker comes to campus like Paul Wolfowitz, he should be shouted down and egged, but the speech of liberal professors shouldn’t even be recorded. I don’t remember if you blogged about the professor who was fired for bashing an event that a student had set up. In that case, he probably shouldn’t have been fired as it wasn’t clear that the professor was grading people down for their views, just saying that he hated what the student was working for.