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UCLA Students Urged to Expose 'Radical' Professors
rts008 writes to tell us Reuters is reporting that a conservative alumni group is working hard to expose 'radical professors'. The group is a creation of 2003 UCLA graduate, Andrew Jones, who stated that he runs the organization on his own with $22,000 in private donations. From the article: "Jones told Reuters he is out to 'restore an atmosphere of respectful political discourse on campus' and says his efforts are aimed at academics who proselytize students from either side of the ideological spectrum, conservative or liberal. 'We are concerned solely with indoctrination, one-sided presentation of ideological controversies and unprofessional classroom behavior,' Jones said on his Web site." The tactics used by Jones and his group are raising quite a few questions, however, offering to pay students for recordings or teaching materials that could provide 'evidence' against professors in question.
When someone mentions a radical professor, I'm thinking of one pulling a 360 on a skateboard in a half pipe.
But once you got someone pegged as radical, what do you do then? Just warn kids picking classes about him? Or what?
God spoke to me.
Something tells me THIS IS IT. This is totally going to work as planned and not be abused to destroy people's careers
**Yawn**
Someone wake me when it's $1,000,000 and a Stanford grad.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Not to be outdone, a USC student group has requested that students create a list of their most 'awesome' professors.
This guy's the limit!
At last, we can fill in the missing step!
The Professor's Secret Plan To Wealth
--MarkusQ
I've heard of professors who dress up in period costume. Maybe Political Science 101 should be taught by four professors dressed as Stalin, Hitler, Jefferson and Robert Owen each defending their systems.
In just a nod to modern rationalism, it would nonetheless be nice if there were a fifth professor to provide commentary.
Bullshit!
No instructor or professor should be allowed to display a political agenda of any type. That's unethical, unprofessional, and just plain unacceptable. And I dare say your acceptance of it is a large part of what's eroding America's education system.
People complain about accepting the status quo, then go apeshit when someone ACTUALLY QUESTIONS IT. You people are absolutely *bathed* in hypocrisy.
Also, I'm outraged that the so-called 'professors' of physics don't give fair coverage of the theories of the time cube.
Honestly. Professors - what do they know?
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.
Uh-oh! I think a whole lot og biology teachers are gonna get pegged for their radical views on the "controversy over evolution".
You can't take the sky from me...
(Academia is considered to be more liberal than conservative, or at least it's presented as such)
Much of academia - especially at UCLA - is far to the left of Joe Stalin.
But if your whole experince is such far-left-leaning loudmouths, your perception of even a moderate leftist, let alone a centerist, will be "to the right of Attila the Hun".
Don't bother looking for an actual conservative professor at that university. You won't find one - who talks about it.
It [identifying profesorial ideologues who abuse their students by propagandizing them in class and/or grading on their students' ideologies] shouldn't be allowed -
Free speech - stating true information and the evidence backing it - shouldn't be allowed?
What ever happened to the time when you could disagree with someone, but still respect their opinion?
What happened is "political correctness" - brainwashing techniques honed in the totalitarian regimes of the Soviet Union, China, and other Communist countries and revolutionary movements, transplanted onto campus by the radical left.
Look at you: You're apparently so indoctrinated that you actually believe it's right to suppress the speech of someone who is merely identifying (and collecting evidence to prove the identification of) professors who abuse their positions.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
"I did not say that conservatives tend to be stupid people. I said that stupid people tend to be conservative."
-John Stuart Mill
Tim
....more like this
The Tenured Professor's Secret Plan To Wealth
1.) Tell your students to bring tape recorders to your next lecture
2.) Read Marx to them making long asides with inflammatory remarks about the Bush Administration being the new Nazi party
3.) Tell them you will tell them were they can sell their tapes for $100 if they split it with you.
4.) Watch the media go on a senseless crusade to force your resignation
5.) Force the board of directors to give you a nice compensation package to make you go away
6.) Profit!
--MarkusQ
I think the invisible hand of the market has its middle finger extended
--A wise old fart named SC0RN
Cuz God said so.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Interesting point of view you have.
If I were a gambler, I would have to say that you came from a lower middle class background, with socially conservative parents. The only way that you could get into college was on a full atheletic (basketball or football) scholarship. One of the benefits of being on the varsity team for four years was that you really spent very little time studying or attending classes, since you were part of one of the main "profit centers" for your school. I suspect that you barely managed to get into professional sports after you "graduated", A more or less permanent injury sidelined your sports career, but you managed to parley your connections into a reasonably comfortable job. But you blame the college and your professors for failing to actually educate you while you were there. This same chip-on-the-shoulder has gotten you into a few minor scrapes with the law, primarily bar brawls. But you have (like your parents) always voted Republican. No doubt you feel somewhat confused (and angry) when the news media and "those liberal politicians" keep talking about the rule of law, and upholding the US Constitution and Bill of Rights while attacking "your President". And your admiration for Britney Spears increased ten-fold when you heard her quoted on Fox News "...that we should just trust our President in all that he does..."
I would really recommend that you remove your "blinders", and start reading a lot more: Thomas Paine, John Q. Adams, Benjamin Franklin, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and some more modern books written by former government insiders, as well as the 9-11 Commission Report.
Please feel free to come back and engage in a thoughtful discourse on these subjects when you have educated yourself to think for yourself in a manner your college education has failed to do.
No, opinions are far more dangerous these days than walking around, Rambo-style, with a locked-and-loaded M60 through the shopping mall.
Well, like it or not, at least he seems to have managed to get you up to date on current events.
My motorbike travels in Chile.
No problem, just make it mandatory for students to watch Fox News. That should bring um back into line.
How sarcastic are you being when you say these things?
My page.
"What we gonna do right here is go back *How far back?* Way back!"
You just got troll'd!
Facts, schmacts. You can use so-called facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
D'oh!
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It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.