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I hope for the sake of his own credibility he means the one that happened in 1848.
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None of these politicians would take a cut in salary and benefits to make themselves equal to the mean U.S. wage. More socialists lies.
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Quite a piece by the guy that knows where the bodies are buried.. David Horowitz and Peter Collier are jewels laser'ing the academy.. separating bone from marrow.. in the United States today.. American Universitys have become leftist re-education camps..
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Horowitz puts it into words almost better than anyone else. Every Freeper should read this article. Thanks for posting it.
Excerpt, article http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org
The Professors' Orwellian Case
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 5, 2003
The American Association of University Professors prides itself on being a guardian of academic freedom. There is a sound historical basis for this pride beginning with its famous report of 1915, which launched the academic freedom tradition. Through the 1970s its Academic Freedom Committee developed principles and guidelines that have been adopted by American universities to protect the intellectual independence of their faculties. As early as the 1915 report, the AAUP also recognized the academic freedom rights of students. However, as a guild organization whose members are professors, it is not surprising that the AAUP has not been so mindful of the academic rights of students, although these rights are mentioned in its pronouncements going to back to the original report. Again, not surprisingly, the same is true of university administrations, whose academic freedom policies are generally modeled on AAUP guidelines.
Worse, when student rights have been widely infringed by faculty and university administrations, the AAUP has tended to overlook the infringements and even defend them. This is not a small problem. Under the name political correctness, student speech rights have been curtailed and students academic freedoms abused on an unprecedented scale. Courses of indoctrination masquerading as education have spread through the curriculum and become familiar objects of public ridicule. Outrage over political correctness and speech codes, however, did not come from the AAUP or academic faculties, but from the public at large. Moreover, curbing these excesses has been the work of legislatures and the courts, more than academic institutions or associations.
Nor are the problems of professorial excess absent to day. This year, for example, a criminology class at a Colorado university was given an assignment to write a paper on Why George Bush Is A War Criminal. Bad enough. But a student who chose to submit a paper on Why Saddam Hussein Is A War Criminal received a failing grade (for political incorrectness).
Excerpt, article http://www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org
The Professors' Orwellian Case
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 5, 2003
The American Association of University Professors prides itself on being a guardian of academic freedom. There is a sound historical basis for this pride beginning with its famous report of 1915, which launched the academic freedom tradition. Through the 1970s its Academic Freedom Committee developed principles and guidelines that have been adopted by American universities to protect the intellectual independence of their faculties. As early as the 1915 report, the AAUP also recognized the academic freedom rights of students. However, as a guild organization whose members are professors, it is not surprising that the AAUP has not been so mindful of the academic rights of students, although these rights are mentioned in its pronouncements going to back to the original report. Again, not surprisingly, the same is true of university administrations, whose academic freedom policies are generally modeled on AAUP guidelines.
Worse, when student rights have been widely infringed by faculty and university administrations, the AAUP has tended to overlook the infringements and even defend them. This is not a small problem. Under the name political correctness, student speech rights have been curtailed and students academic freedoms abused on an unprecedented scale. Courses of indoctrination masquerading as education have spread through the curriculum and become familiar objects of public ridicule. Outrage over political correctness and speech codes, however, did not come from the AAUP or academic faculties, but from the public at large. Moreover, curbing these excesses has been the work of legislatures and the courts, more than academic institutions or associations.
Nor are the problems of professorial excess absent to day. This year, for example, a criminology class at a Colorado university was given an assignment to write a paper on Why George Bush Is A War Criminal. Bad enough. But a student who chose to submit a paper on Why Saddam Hussein Is A War Criminal received a failing grade (for political incorrectness).