Colorado State Senator Attacks University Bias

Fox News ^ | Jan 19, 2004 | Kelley Beaucar Vlahos

[Akira]

A well-known conservative is reaching out to state lawmakers to beat back what he claims is rampant political bias against students and faculty who do not agree with a pervasive liberal orthodoxy in state schools across the country.

As a result, leaders in several states are reportedly working on anti-bias legislation, including Colorado state Sen. John Andrews (search). Andrews told Foxnews.com that lawmakers in the state General Assembly plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks that would require state college and university officials to educate students and faculty better about their rights against political and ideological bias by other professors and administrators.

[Akira]

There are lots of conservative opinions coming from Colorado, from their governor and now senators. I'm not sure legislation is the way to go, but I'm just happy that they're making noise.

Everytime I get irked that Horowitz is trying to fix the issue via legislation, I hear about these idiots like Mate-Kole and Phillips, and I'm a little less irked.

[Gabz]

It's a terrible shame that in order to bring attention to the problem, legislation appears to be necessary.......but if it causes a few people to open their eyes....well

[Seruzawa]

plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks that would require state college and university officials to educate students and faculty better about their rights against political and ideological bias by other professors and administrators.

Oh great. The fox is going to guard the henhouse. I can see it now. This law will be twisted to achieve the exact opposite and worse discrimination than ever will occur.

[leadpencil1]

The howls of pain have come from the academic establishment, the academic left, which suggests to me that they are terrified of having their cozy little monopoly broken up by the winds of competing ideas," he said.

Exactly!

[Akira]

Horowitz has talked to hundreds of conservative professors who cannot reveal their conservative opinions, as they would be blacklisted and would then lose all chances of tenure (which is a whole other debate)...

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

two fellow professors suggested he was a racist because he questioned why a CCSU-sponsored conference on slave reparations hadn't included any speakers who dissented from the pro-reparations point of view.

I wonder if any of the students thought it strange that the opinion held by 70%+ of the American people was not represented at the conference?

[LibertyThug]

I still disagree with legislating fairness, even if it is for the 'right' side. True change can only come when the students (and the paying parents) demand more balanced classes and professors.

[Akira]

I agree, although 18 year old kids on average are probably fairly clueless on this sort of thing, easily subjected to indoctrination.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - EDUCATION - UNIVERSITY - PROFESSORS - LIBERAL BIAS

[Gorjus]

True change can only come when the students (and the paying parents) demand more balanced classes and professors.

So you (or your kid) decides they don't like the liberal indoctrination. They 'demand' balance, and the college laughs at them. They refuse to play the liberal-speak game and the professors flunk them. They refuse to attend those classes and the college won't give them a degree. What do you do?

'True' change can only come after employers quit hiring indoctrinated 'graduates' in preference to those with more practical knowledge. As long as you have to have a degree in order to get a job, then there isn't really any way for parents/students to 'demand' anything of the colleges.

(By the way, I have bachelor's and graduate degrees in a professional field and I'm not just showing sour grapes about college.)

And the way it is right now, if employers started discounting degrees from liberal-indoctrination schools, those schools would scream about discrimination.