Posted on 06/20/2007 6:42:37 PM PDT by sig226
June 20, 2007 -- 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.
The film is about free speech and free thought. I think that most Americans, regardless of ideology, would say that the things I'm covering are absolutely appalling.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Thanks for the link.
Do you think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will nominate this movie for an Oscar for “Best Documentary?”
No, I don’t think so, either.....it’s not a pro-left wing
film.
Do you think the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences will nominate this movie for an Oscar for “Best Documentary?”
No, I don’t think so, either.....it’s not a pro-left wing
film.
ECM rocks! His work is witty, funny and insightful. He simply lets the lefties indict themselves. Great stuff.
This guy needs to hook up with FIRE
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, is a non-profit educational foundation based in Philadelphia, PA. It was founded in 1999 by Alan Charles Kors, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvey A. Silverglate, an attorney in Boston. They created FIRE after co-authoring The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on Americas Campuses in 1998 and subsequently receiving hundreds of pleas for help from victims of illiberal policies, double standards, intolerable violations of their rights, and intrusions upon private consciences on college campuses.
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