Posted on 06/20/2007 6:37:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
THE indie documentary "Indoctrinate U" takes a look at the politics of today's colleges and finds that, from coast to coast, conservative undergraduate newspapers are stolen en masse, professors lose gigs because of right-leaning views and military recruiters are chased off campus. Young writer-director Evan Coyne Maloney's alarming and funny film has yet to land a distributor, but Maloney, 34, who writes software for Reuters in New York, has been showing his movie to receptive campus and festival audiences. He talked to The Post on Monday.
KYLE SMITH: Why did you make this movie?
EVAN COYNE MALONEY: What I wanted to do was show the faces of academic people whose careers have been put in jeopardy for something as simple as expressing opinions that might be the minority opinions on campus but in larger society are actually pretty commonplace. Film has a level of emotional impact that simply can't be matched in other media.
Q: Summarize the film.
A: It says that there is a predominant ideology on campus and it's almost a case of groupthink.
In any community, once you pass a critical mass of people who share the same views, they tend to act poorly to people with different views. This is a human failing. You see it around the world with religious strife, you see it in different businesses where a successful company will collapse because they've become ossified in their thinking.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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