I'd like to talk about something that's going on at UCLA. A graduate named Andrew Jones (not the one that plays for the Braves) started a group called Bruin Alumni Assn. who's sole purpose is to silence liberal professors.
The group is offering money for notes,handouts and illicit recording of lectures (up to $100 for all three) on the professors who lean just to the left. Now last I checked we do have freedom of speech in this country and the group is not doing the same for conservative professors.
Something is very wrong with this.
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I'll agree with you halfway on this. I don't agree with Mr. Jones' solution for the rampant liberalism in America's colleges and universities. He is fighting something unethical by being unethical himself. Legally, he is doing nothing wrong, though and I don't see where this is impeding anybody's freedom of speech. If fact, he is exercising his own right of expression.
This is an issue however. (I know you are not going to agree with me on this.) Many universities, California's UC system, in particular, have become havens for leftists, both in students and faculties. I hear reports from students quite frequently stating they get poor grades in their political science classes when they write papers expressing a conservative point of view.
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The only thing that is wrong with your argument I feel Robert is perhaps those reports were not based on their conservative views but poor work? Could it be they got bad grades cause the quality of work was bad? Mind you you also may be right but there might be other factors in this that we are not hearing.
I'm sure you are right in some cases. I am against it when people, who don't get what they want, make excuses and blame their plight on race or gender discrimination. I would be against it just as much if a student plays the "liberal educators" card.
I'll share my own personal experience. In junior high school. It was 1976 and the presidential race between Ford and Carter was raging. My Social Studies teacher made no attempts to hide the fact that he was for Carter. In fact, he often lectured to us about why Carter should be elected. At the same time, my English teacher spewed the same rhetoric at us.
In 1981, when I was in high school, I learned about Reagan getting shot because I overheard two teachers talking. One said "Hey, did you hear they shot Reagan?" The other replied "Yea, I hope he dies."
I was in elementary school when Reagan got shot. My teacher put on the radio and said nothing unless asked but he did let the moment speak for itself even to a bunch of kids.
Robert you must be old :)
But regarding this issue I'm not completely saying you are wrong I'm sure professors on both sides might grade differently if papers differ on their views. But again there are variables we don't know and never will.
When I was in Pierce college I butted heads with my very conservative disagreeing on pretty much everything and I felt I was punished with bad grades. But I didn't complain I just found another class with a less bias professor.
You'll have to speak up louder sonny! :)
I said YOU ARE AN OLD FART can you hear that :)
You are almost as old as many points Kobe Bryant scored Sunday :)
And you must be as old as the number of goals Luc Robitaille scored last Thursday. :)
If I was an ------- I would BUT :)
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