Posted on 01/18/2006 9:45:21 AM PST by BurbankKarl
A fledgling alumni group headed by a former campus Republican leader is offering students payments of up to $100 per class to provide information on instructors who are "abusive, one-sided or off-topic" in advocating political ideologies.
The year-old Bruin Alumni Assn. says its "Exposing UCLA's Radical Professors" initiative takes aim at faculty "actively proselytizing their extreme views in the classroom, whether or not the commentary is relevant to the class topic." Although the group says it is concerned about radical professors of any political stripe, it has named an initial "Dirty 30" of teachers it identifies with left-wing or liberal causes.
Some of the instructors mentioned accuse the association of conducting a witch hunt that threatens to harm the teaching atmosphere, and at least one of the group's advisory board members has resigned because he considers the bounty offers inappropriate. The university said it will warn the association that selling copies of professors' lectures would violate campus rules and raise copyright issues.
The Bruin Alumni Assn. is headed by Andrew Jones, a 24-year-old who graduated in June 2003 and was chairman of UCLA's Bruin Republicans student group. He said his organization, which is registered with the state as a nonprofit, does not charge dues and has no official members, but has raised a total of $22,000 from 100 donors. Jones said the biggest contribution to the group, $5,000, came from a foundation endowed by Arthur N. Rupe, 88, a Santa Barbara resident and former Los Angeles record producer.
Jones' group is following in the footsteps of various conservative groups that have taken steps, including monitoring professors, to counter what they regard as an overwhelming leftist tilt at elite colleges and universities around the country.
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Cool!
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SPOTREP
NPR highlighted the "which hunt" comment this am. ~sigh
UCLA is threatening the group with a Ceast and Desist order....
I just saw that piece of scum on C-Span last week. No wonder America is so f'd up!
Aholes like him and the other commies are/ have been teaching generation after generation to be America & capitalism haters.
Surprizing he hasn't met with a lethal accident yet!
one of the targeted law profs has been trouble for years. a friend of mine sat thru 6 weeks of prof. abel babbling about marxist theory. finally he stood up and asked "when are we going to learn about criminal law so we can prepare for the bar exam?" thankfully the class is graded anonymously otherwise he would have flunked.
The damage to our society by those who teach our children with unAmerican, anti-free market, statist and self serving agendas must be monumental.
I'd love to take a few of them out - and I don't mean to dinner!
Krugman, Churchill, Zinn, etc., etc. - Shoot'em all to the moon.
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