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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (16308)1/31/2006 5:19:02 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
South Dakotans Advocate Diversity

Posted by John
Power Line

In what could be a model for other states, legislators in the South Dakota House and Senate have introduced a bill that would require each public college and university in the state to report periodically to the legislature on its efforts to ensure intellectual diversity on campus. The Rapid City Journal reports:
    Rep. Phyllis Heineman, R-Sioux Falls, chairwoman of the 
    House Education Committee and the chief sponsor of 
    HB1222, said Wednesday that the goal is to prevent 
    situations already seen in other states where students, 
    speakers and faculty members have been harassed because 
    of their views. 
    “This is not an indictment at all,” Heineman said. “For 
    us, it is good governance.”
The bill suggests that such reports may include, among other things, a description of steps taken to:

<<< Encourage a balanced variety of campus-wide panels and speakers and annually publish the names of panelists and speakers.

Establish clear campus policies that ensure that hecklers or threats of violence do not prevent speakers from speaking.

Include intellectual diversity concerns in the institution’s guidelines on teaching.

Develop hiring, tenure and promotion policies that protect individuals against political viewpoint discrimination and track any reported grievances.

Establish clear campus policies to ensure freedom of the press for students and report any incidents of student newspaper thefts or destruction.

Establish clear campus policies to prohibit political bias in student-funded organizations.

Eliminate speech codes that restrict the freedom of speech. >>>


Promoting intellectual diversity on campus--what a radical idea! This proposal is so innocuous that it is hard to see how university administrators can object to it, but you can imagine how much they will hate it. The legislation has 31 sponsors, of whom 28 are Republicans. Why do you suppose that is?

South Dakota Politics has more.
southdakotapolitics.blogs.com

powerlineblog.com

rapidcityjournal.com
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