Campus Progress vs. Campus Reform

Accuracy in Academia ^ | October 27, 2009 | Bethany Stotts

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Campus Progress vs. Campus Reform

Bethany Stotts, October 27, 2009

In a recent Campus Progress article “Smashing ‘Left-Wing Scum’ on Campus,” author Erin Rosa attempts to characterize the Leadership Institute as conservative bullies on campus. The problem is that she doesn’t have much of a case in the first place.

Rosa derives the title of her article from a profile posting by Texas A&M graduate Toni Listi that he is “active on CampusReform to ‘smash left-wing scum.’”

“I don’t know about that comment,” Rosa quotes Bryan Bernys, CampusReform National Director. “I don’t know where that is on the site or anything. Obviously with all Web sites you can post anything. Nobody at CampusReform can go through every single post,” he said.

So if the leadership at CampusReform did not sanction Listi’s comment, why tar an entire community for the actions of a single member? Listi’s profile stated that his reason for being “active on CampusReform” is to “start and support conservative/libertarian groups and publications” as of Thursday, Oct. 22, around 3:00 pm.

Campus Progress associate editor Rosa also writes that “Ken Johnson, a humanities professor at the University of Southern Indiana, was recently listed as a leftist professor on the social network by an anonymous commenter that claimed to be his student. The user wrote that Johnson ‘continually degrades the Bible,’ an allegation the Johnson denies.”

Since the professor rating no longer appears on campusreform.org, the only evidence remaining is Rosa’s excerpted quote.

The person described by Rosa as an “anonymous commenter that claimed to be his student,” is an active student at the USI, Adrienne Royer, CampusReform New Media Director, told this correspondent via email....

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I’m amazed they made the activist sound so bad. People are fed up with this culture of denial and unwillingness to stand up and deal with the problem.