UCLA Students Urged to Expose 'Radical' Professors 1229
rts008 writes to tell us Reuters is reporting that a conservative alumni group is working hard to expose 'radical professors'. The group is a creation of 2003 UCLA graduate, Andrew Jones, who stated that he runs the organization on his own with $22,000 in private donations. From the article: "Jones told Reuters he is out to 'restore an atmosphere of respectful political discourse on campus' and says his efforts are aimed at academics who proselytize students from either side of the ideological spectrum, conservative or liberal. 'We are concerned solely with indoctrination, one-sided presentation of ideological controversies and unprofessional classroom behavior,' Jones said on his Web site." The tactics used by Jones and his group are raising quite a few questions, however, offering to pay students for recordings or teaching materials that could provide 'evidence' against professors in question.
Sorry, I'm old school (Score:5, Funny)
But once you got someone pegged as radical, what do you do then? Just warn kids picking classes about him? Or what?
GREAT IDEA! (Score:2, Funny)
$22,000 and a UCLA grad (Score:3, Funny)
Someone wake me when it's $1,000,000 and a Stanford grad.
rivalries (Score:2, Funny)
At last, step 3! (Score:5, Funny)
At last, we can fill in the missing step!
The Professor's Secret Plan To Wealth
--MarkusQ
In a postmodern world -- could work (Score:5, Funny)
In just a nod to modern rationalism, it would nonetheless be nice if there were a fifth professor to provide commentary.
To hell with you and your status quo. (Score:1, Funny)
No instructor or professor should be allowed to display a political agenda of any type. That's unethical, unprofessional, and just plain unacceptable. And I dare say your acceptance of it is a large part of what's eroding America's education system.
People complain about accepting the status quo, then go apeshit when someone ACTUALLY QUESTIONS IT. You people are absolutely *bathed* in hypocrisy.
Yeah! (Score:2, Funny)
Honestly. Professors - what do they know?
one-sided presentation of ideological controversie (Score:3, Funny)
Re:This sounds less like (Score:2, Funny)
Much of academia - especially at UCLA - is far to the left of Joe Stalin.
But if your whole experince is such far-left-leaning loudmouths, your perception of even a moderate leftist, let alone a centerist, will be "to the right of Attila the Hun".
Don't bother looking for an actual conservative professor at that university. You won't find one - who talks about it.
It [identifying profesorial ideologues who abuse their students by propagandizing them in class and/or grading on their students' ideologies] shouldn't be allowed -
Free speech - stating true information and the evidence backing it - shouldn't be allowed?
What ever happened to the time when you could disagree with someone, but still respect their opinion?
What happened is "political correctness" - brainwashing techniques honed in the totalitarian regimes of the Soviet Union, China, and other Communist countries and revolutionary movements, transplanted onto campus by the radical left.
Look at you: You're apparently so indoctrinated that you actually believe it's right to suppress the speech of someone who is merely identifying (and collecting evidence to prove the identification of) professors who abuse their positions.
Re:Sorry, I'm old school (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bias in academia (Score:5, Funny)
-John Stuart Mill
Re:Paging Dr. Godwin (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Hey, the right to speek freely... (Score:5, Funny)
Tim
Actually if I was a tenured prof it would go...... (Score:1, Funny)
The Tenured Professor's Secret Plan To Wealth
1.) Tell your students to bring tape recorders to your next lecture
2.) Read Marx to them making long asides with inflammatory remarks about the Bush Administration being the new Nazi party
3.) Tell them you will tell them were they can sell their tapes for $100 if they split it with you.
4.) Watch the media go on a senseless crusade to force your resignation
5.) Force the board of directors to give you a nice compensation package to make you go away
6.) Profit!
--MarkusQ
Re:Sorry, I'm old school (Score:4, Funny)
D00d, 360z aren't rad. NE 8 yr old can 360. UR limp Nless you can 720 w/o fail.
Re:Hey, the right to speek freely... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Works for me (Score:3, Funny)
If I were a gambler, I would have to say that you came from a lower middle class background, with socially conservative parents. The only way that you could get into college was on a full atheletic (basketball or football) scholarship. One of the benefits of being on the varsity team for four years was that you really spent very little time studying or attending classes, since you were part of one of the main "profit centers" for your school. I suspect that you barely managed to get into professional sports after you "graduated", A more or less permanent injury sidelined your sports career, but you managed to parley your connections into a reasonably comfortable job. But you blame the college and your professors for failing to actually educate you while you were there. This same chip-on-the-shoulder has gotten you into a few minor scrapes with the law, primarily bar brawls. But you have (like your parents) always voted Republican. No doubt you feel somewhat confused (and angry) when the news media and "those liberal politicians" keep talking about the rule of law, and upholding the US Constitution and Bill of Rights while attacking "your President". And your admiration for Britney Spears increased ten-fold when you heard her quoted on Fox News "...that we should just trust our President in all that he does..."
I would really recommend that you remove your "blinders", and start reading a lot more: Thomas Paine, John Q. Adams, Benjamin Franklin, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and some more modern books written by former government insiders, as well as the 9-11 Commission Report.
Please feel free to come back and engage in a thoughtful discourse on these subjects when you have educated yourself to think for yourself in a manner your college education has failed to do.
Re:Nonsense! (I'm sorry, is that belittling?) (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Works for me (Score:2, Funny)
Well, like it or not, at least he seems to have managed to get you up to date on current events.
Re:Hey, the right to speek freely... (Score:1, Funny)
No problem, just make it mandatory for students to watch Fox News. That should bring um back into line.
Re:Suggestion: Pepperdine. Or Biola. (Score:2, Funny)
Joseph McCarthy, are you among us? (Score:2, Funny)
"What we gonna do right here is go back *How far back?* Way back!"
Re:Hey, the right to speek freely... (Score:3, Funny)
D'oh!