[Raquel]

Jay,

P. Orenstein is a good friend of mine. He's working hard to promote a much needed Academic Bill of Rights for New York State. Let me know what you think of the article.

[metmom]

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[Northern Yankee]

“this so-called bill of rights would provide a forum for right-wing politicians and others who seek to impose a political agenda in the classroom.”

Can't have opposing viewpoints. It's just too frightening!

Great article Raquel, and it is becoming too true in many areas of academia.

Case in point: A few years ago our local university, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point, held a public forum on the impending war in Iraq. There were 13 panelists there to debate whether or not the United States should intervene in Iraq to topple Huessein. Every one of those panelists, all universities professors, opposed the Bush Administration's plan to enter Iraq. I found that telling. A university couldn't even offer an opposing viewpoint for the public to digest.

And this is a college of higher learning?