more on Op-ed: Ideologues at the lectern

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jordan Pollack <pollack () cs brandeis edu>
Date: January 22, 2006 3:09:30 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Op-ed: Ideologues at the lectern

Its just more of the same bullshit as the tapping of our phones and  
library records, the paying of commentators like Armstrong Williams  
to parrot the party line. Domestic psychological operations (aka Mind  
Control) is out of control again, as is was leading up to the 1976  
Church Committee, a must read for all citizens:  http:// 
www.aarclibrary.org/publib/church/reports/contents.htm
This Horowitz guy probably has always been an agent provocateur on  
the dole, and now he is funded by a domestic psyops endowment managed  
by the Bradley foundation, which, like DARPA, requires quarterly  
reports to release its money: http://www.mediatransparency.org/ 
personprofile.php?personID=15

It was pure luck that overbilling in $4.4B B1 Bomber program http:// 
www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/Pre_96/July95/423.txt.html enabled Rockwell's  
generous $1.6B acquisition of Allen-Bradley in 1984: http:// 
www.bradleyfdn.org/about.html.
Paranoid conspiracy theories aside, if Horowitz is right about  
balance, we must do something about the number of Republicans who are  
making important decisions at major US corporations. They outnumber  
Democrats 17 to 1! Therefore, as a society, we must start a movement  
to purge Republican CEO's and politically balance the Boards of  
Directors (this signifies a joke :)

PA actually did have hearings on his proposed laws...

Jordan

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Hearing Into Bias Falls Short Of Billing

The Probe Of Professors Said To Inject Politics Into Classes At PA
Public Colleges Drew Just One Student Speaker.

By Patrick Kerkstra Inquirer Staff Writer

Philadelphia Inquirer
January 10, 2006

Yesterday's hearing on academic freedom at
Pennsylvania's public universities was hyped by
conservative activists as a "historic moment," in which
school administrators would finally be "called to
account" in front of state legislators for allowing
student "indoctrination and abuse" by leftist
professors.

But the hearing at Temple University did not live up to
that billing.

A professor scheduled to testify about alleged rampant
liberal bias at Temple canceled. The sole student to
appear before the legislative committee acknowledged he
had never filed a formal grievance.

And Temple president David Adamany testified that in
fact no student had made an official classroom bias
complaint in at least five years, despite well-
developed policies and procedures for doing so.

"If there are students out there who feel their rights
are being abridged, they need to speak up," said Rep.
Gib Armstrong (R., Lancaster). Armstrong is the
conservative lawmaker who called for hearings and got
them approved by the Pennsylvania House.

Pennsylvania is the only state in the nation to have
held academic freedom hearings, but lawmakers in 19
other states have proposed some form of legislation
designed to address alleged professorial bias. The
hearings at Temple are the second of four scheduled by
the state House Select Committee on Academic Freedom in
Higher Education.

Many academics have condemned the movement, and
Pennsylvania's hearings in particular, as a new form of
McCarthyism that leaves professors with the impression
the government is monitoring their lectures.

"Just as in the 1950s, right-wing forces are attempting
to impose political tests on the faculty," Rachel
DuPlessis, a Temple English professor, testified.

Lawmakers first heard from Adamany yesterday. Unlike
many of his presidential counterparts, Adamany said he
welcomed the hearing. He defended Temple's record,
acknowledging only that the university could do more to
"make sure that students know of their rights to
appeal" when politics leaks inappropriately into
classroom discussions.

Temple senior Logan Fisher, vice chairman of the
school's College Republicans chapter, offered several
vivid examples of what he considered classroom bias,
alleging that a few professors vulgarly insulted
President Bush in their lectures. Fisher also said a
professor told him, "You're going to have a rough
semester in this class," after Fisher disagreed with
him over a foreign policy question.

Fisher also said he had spoken with many students who
had similar experiences.

Asked why he and the other students never filed a
formal complaint, Fisher said they feared retribution
and felt their grievance would be ignored.

Democrats seemed convinced that the threat to student
academic freedom had been overblown.

Rep. Dan Frankel (D., Allegheny) said that "for us to
pretend there is widespread abuse going on is
problematic."

Rep. Dan Surra (D., Elk) called the hearings a
"colossal waste of time and taxpayer money."

The hearings at Temple conclude today. Contact staff
writer Patrick Kerkstra at 610-313-8111 or
pkerkstra () phillynews com.

© 2006 Philadelphia Inquirer and wire service sources.
All Rights Reserved. http://www.philly.com




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