Censoring Liberal Professors

newsmax ^ | Friday, Jan. 20, 2006 | Susan Estrich

[tx_eggman]

If it has its way, the classroom will no longer be a place where students and faculty can discuss ideas freely. Shame on them.

Orwell called this newspeak. Exactly the opposite effect will transpire when students are allowed to voice views that contradict the radical left spewings of these "professors" without fear of recrimination.

If Estrich is screaming about it it's easy to figure out who's ox is being gored.

[Atlas Sneezed]

It should be the policy of every college that any student can tape his classes. The student should not be allowed to then sell those tapes.

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I agree, but let's talk about government-funded schools like UCLA.

Any taxpayer-subsidized forum should be a public forum, so that each classroom is recorded for posterity (webcam, audio, downloadable by any citizen for review.)

If that "stifles discourse", then I advise anyone who feels stifled to get off the government dole.

This would also so a lot to fix our Priam and secondary public schools, so watchdogs can keep an eye on the errors and propaganda of those teachers.

[KC_Conspirator]

I agree that it will cause a seriously bad atmosphere in the classroom if students are taping their professors.

BS. Those colleges are paid by students and tax payers.

[Puppage]

If what these prof's are saying is wisdom, they'd want their statements publicized

Maybe for the same reason the NY Public School system didn't want parents to see the new history books they were buying?

[RoadTest]

"Are there more liberals than conservatives teaching in America's top universities? Probably.

Are there more conservatives than liberals running America's top companies? Probably."

So - - companies are providing the money for these Communist propagandist professors to tear apart the United States?

UCLA - - - ACLU - - - -hmmm.

[untenured]

Imagine asking a question, or expressing a point of view, knowing that a fellow student is taking detailed notes and taping the class for purposes of monitoring the slant of everything that is said – in the name of political correctness.

I express a lot of points of view in my classroom, and I let students tape everything I say. (As a matter of courtesy, I think a student should ask first.) Why say something to a roomful of people if you wish to hide it?

[dirtboy]

Susan Ostrich says, "Professors who can't keep their politics out of the classroom need to be addressed by the administration."

And the administrators will be sure to look into the allegations as soon as they are done revising the latest campus speech rules that deem conservative ideas to be hate speech.

[trebb]

Are there more liberals than conservatives teaching in America's top universities? Probably.

Are there more conservatives than liberals running America's top companies? Probably.

Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.

[Little Ray]

I disagree. Maybe the profs will stay on the subject.

[TChris]

LOL!

The liberal tool of word redefinition is a perennial favorite.

Here's a clue: Exposure is not censorship! Look up the words.

[oneofmany]

I think Estrich needs to write another book, go on The Factor, and be completely destroyed again by O'Reilly.

[Euro-American Scum]

In my classrooms, I have only three hard and fast rules. No political correctness. Every point of view is not only welcome but also essential to a full discussion. Nothing said in the classroom leaves the classroom. If you don't agree with something, you argue the other side.

She's a lying bitch. She's infamous around USC Law School for being a shrieking, shrewish harpy who never forgets a slight and uses grades as a weapon for payback.

Every point of view welcome? How many law students are going to risk the wrath of the wicked witch of the west when the mega-bucks legal careers are in her hands? Nobody. That's who.

[Politicalmom]

I don't really understand. I taped my lectures during most of college, because I had a severe tendonitis problem, and couldn't take notes. I never had to get "permission".

[jer2911tx]

last year it seemed like susan estrich was on fox news a dozen times a day......i found every fox news email address i could find (some just so her fellow employees at the station could have a good laugh) and sent a short, simple email stating every time i saw susan estrich i changed the channel.

[winner3000]

(Professors who can't keep their politics out of the classroom need to be addressed by the administration, not by student and alumni censors. )

Herein lies the problem. The administration has failed miserably in its duty to police the professors. It's time for external pressure. The light of day is the best disinfectant.

[DeweyCA]

I express a lot of points of view in my classroom, and I let students tape everything I say. (As a matter of courtesy, I think a student should ask first.) Why say something to a roomful of people if you wish to hide it?

Sir, iot is so obvious that you are a conservative, and NOT a liberal prof who wants to censor other opinions while protecting your own desire to indoctrinate students. Bravo for you. I hope that you soon get tenured and continue to practice true academic freedom. The Lib profs definitely do NOT think like you.

[pabianice]

Sorry, Susan. The College Left's Tenured Radical days of immunity are OVER.

[genghis]

taping- Doesn't matter what anyone thinks. There is no penalty for taping, nothing those pucks and do about it. After it is taped, they can broadcast it and no one ever needs to or can find out without a spending a great deal of resources to find out. Those liberal *@&@# better be careful what they say cause we are coming after them!!! I was so pleased that this got so much publicity, like all good memes, it will replicate.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I have always taped my professors lectures after portable tape recorders were available.
I then replay the lecture to be sure I did not forget a great point.