Education Makes You Gay
Heard about this on NPR yesterday. Seems to be a continuation of this fracas in Pittsburgh which I meantioned before. Apparently, according to Rep. Gibson C. Armstrong, we "all know there is a free speech problem in this country".
Is there? Where? Oh, you mean in the "free speech zones" that quarantine protesters away from His Majesty?
No, he means how conservative students are silenced on college campuses by their pinko commie liberal homo professors! So he wants to discover whether - I know, it sounds crazy - there is a leftward list to the professoriate in Pennsylvania. Then we can ferret them out and stop them indoctrinating our kids with their poisonous "intellectualism". I swear, this guy was talking about looking into voter registration and campaign contributions of faculty.
HUAC?
Professors' Politics Draw Lawmakers Into the Fray
While attending a Pennsylvania Republican Party picnic, Jennie Mae Brown bumped into her state representative and started venting."How could this happen?" Ms. Brown asked Representative Gibson C. Armstrong two summers ago, complaining about a physics professor at the York campus of Pennsylvania State University who she said routinely used class time to belittle President Bush and the war in Iraq. As an Air Force veteran, Ms. Brown said she felt the teacher's comments were inappropriate for the classroom.
The encounter has blossomed into an official legislative inquiry, putting Pennsylvania in the middle of a national debate spurred by conservatives over whether public universities are promoting largely liberal positions and discriminating against students who disagree with them. A committee held two hearings last month in Pittsburgh and has scheduled another for Jan. 9 in Philadelphia. A final report with any recommendations for legislative remedy is due in June.
Is there? Where? Oh, you mean in the "free speech zones" that quarantine protesters away from His Majesty?
No, he means how conservative students are silenced on college campuses by their pinko commie liberal homo professors! So he wants to discover whether - I know, it sounds crazy - there is a leftward list to the professoriate in Pennsylvania. Then we can ferret them out and stop them indoctrinating our kids with their poisonous "intellectualism". I swear, this guy was talking about looking into voter registration and campaign contributions of faculty.
HUAC?
Professors' Politics Draw Lawmakers Into the Fray
While attending a Pennsylvania Republican Party picnic, Jennie Mae Brown bumped into her state representative and started venting."How could this happen?" Ms. Brown asked Representative Gibson C. Armstrong two summers ago, complaining about a physics professor at the York campus of Pennsylvania State University who she said routinely used class time to belittle President Bush and the war in Iraq. As an Air Force veteran, Ms. Brown said she felt the teacher's comments were inappropriate for the classroom.
The encounter has blossomed into an official legislative inquiry, putting Pennsylvania in the middle of a national debate spurred by conservatives over whether public universities are promoting largely liberal positions and discriminating against students who disagree with them. A committee held two hearings last month in Pittsburgh and has scheduled another for Jan. 9 in Philadelphia. A final report with any recommendations for legislative remedy is due in June.
posted by Joolya at
5:31 PM
3 Comments:
philly won't buldge. thanks to my absentee ballot, we went blue, and we're not going back. although i will say, at Smith College in 2000, professors received a letter with a federal mandate not to discuss politics in the classroom...at all...at which all the pinko commie liberal homo professors lashed out, and we talked even more about politics during class. disturbing stuff, though.
i am worried about brookburg's dad- a liberal economics professor? already a dying breed.
I think this idea of 'free speech zones' is very interesting (and scary, natch). Absolutist regimes in the early modern period tried to stop people talking about politics, because they thought it would erode their authority. The new attempts to control public speech in the UK and US arose out of a desire to control the leader's image. The press has become a client of governments, spreading the correct message for fear that they will be cut out of the information loop. So we end up with Louis XIV - except with a semi-privatised representation machine.
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