Posted on 01/18/2006 7:53:10 PM PST by blam
Rightwing group offers students $100 to spy on professors
· Republican graduate's site prompts witch-hunt fears
· 31 academics listed as 'worthy of scrutiny'
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Thursday January 19, 2006
The Guardian (UK)
It is the sort of invitation any poverty-stricken student would find hard to resist. "Do you have a professor who just can't stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? If you help ... expose the professor, we'll pay you for your work."
For full notes, a tape recording and a copy of all teaching materials, students at the University of California Los Angeles are being offered $100 (£57) - the tape recorder is provided free of charge - by an alumni group.
Lecture notes without a tape recording net $50, and even non-attendance at the class while providing copies of the teaching materials is worth $10.
But the initiative has prompted concerns that the group, the brainchild of a former leader of the college's Republicans, is a witch-hunt. Several targeted professors have complained, figures associated with the group have distanced themselves from the project and the college is studying whether the sale of notes infringes copyright and contravenes regulations.
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This is no more "spying" than a reporter is "spying" on City Counsel members when he reports what happened at the meeting last night.
Regularly-----grading was done anonymously so I risked nothing. I was a burr under their saddle.....That I was a member of the Federalist Society, and one of a couple students that got the chapter going, seemed to agitate more than anything. The notion that a contrary view might be brought to campus was more than my property law professor could bear. He slammed us with regularity.
My Constitutional Law Class was really AWFUL! Preface to the book said something like: "We've increased the references to foreign constitutional law, because in our view, the US CONSTITUTION REMAINS FAR TOO INSULAR!"
ARgh. Not only are the professors in the legal academy left-wing loons......the books they write/use are too......it's no wonder that the kids graduate thinking that there are prenumbras of emanations.....
A friend who is a professor looked into some of that issue and it appeared there were copyright issues regarding taping for instance.
I believe the lectures are the property of the college.
I'm not saying put that is cement and let it harden, just what someone I know found out on their own.
Advisor Quits UCLA Alumni Group
The question to me is -- which side of this will CA Democrats support.
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I used to work at a company who employed a fellow who was a raging alcoholic (but a pretty good computer programmer).
Anyway, on occasion, I had to work beside him and he'd start his liberal babbling. I found it best to just ingore him or say, "I really cannot discuss this right now as I have a tight deadline here and need to concentrate." On the ONE occasion that I did get into a political discussion/disagreement with him, he started SCREAMING (no exaggeration), to the point his eyes were bulging out of his head and spittle was flying out of his mouth! Typical democRAT!
Excellent strategy! It will have the added benefit of increasing their paranoia and insane rantings.
We give each other patronizing, knowing smirks that the boss can catch. That has to hurt.
Spying implies covert activity. Reporting what is being said by a state employee in a public setting is not spying. That should fall under "the public's right to know", a mantra of the NYT every time they publish REAL national security secrets. It's that well-worn double standard again...
Most schools have education codes pertaining to the conduct of their instructors. Our college has such a code.
There are a lot of bosses out there with wayout leftist politics--
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