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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.
Academia is considered to be more liberal than conservative, or at least it's presented as such.
You ever wonder whether it might just not be a coincidence that the more learned members of society disagree with conservative values?
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
Remember, the US is supposedly a republic. In a republic, the government is not exactly a separate entity from the general public. Indeed, it is indirectly made up of each and every voting individual. So when a private groups resorts of fascism, and they support the republican-style government, then it is a case of fascism.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Yes, if some sort of self-evident revelation is your standard for evidence and persuasion, you are likely to find me unyielding. Sorry.
ABSURDITY, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Agreed. As a serious poster and always at risk for being thrown in the Slashdot penalty box, how do you respond to this stuff? If you defend the professors and rail against the neocons you will be upmodded. If you express satisfaction that the light of day is being shined on some real whackos, down you go. Why not record a global vote on the quality of the submissions so that some of these princes can get some real feedback? Maybe Taco can illuminate us in one of his 'fireside chats'. I see you have been downmodded. Nice.
an ill wind that blows no good
It's no wonder that conservatives have lesser grades, the more so if their brains have been dumbed-down by religion.
In the example you give above, you complain that a student was expelled from an university for professing obsolete beliefs (corporal punishment). Universities being places of enlightenment, learning and intelligence, someone who is 200 years behind certainly has no place there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownshirts
I'd hope so. I strongly suspect though that what will folllow will merely be a discussion on how to deal with these "outed" professors. And I also suspect that this discussion will revolve around what laws should passed to protect the poor republicans who were victims of such odious and threatening discrimination.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
Aah yes, the typical liberal attitude that all conservatives get their facts from the bible. It's this kind of ignorance that kills your credibility.
In 95% of the schools out there, it is completely and utterly impossible to go through the sociology program as a fiscal and/or moral conservative.
Well in 95% of the schools out there, it's completely and utterly impossible to go through a mathematics program as a functionally innumerate. Go figure.
May the Maths Be with you!