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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (35879)	10/29/2001 2:22:52 PM
From: E	Respond to of 82486

The fact is; the school is fairly up front about what is acceptable I agree that on the left and right both, suppression of opposing or distasteful expression when one has the power to do it is rife, and that the left has more power right now in most universities to suppress. (BWT, was it not a conservative talk show host who started the campaign to have Bill Maher kicked off a show called politically incorrect for ridiculing the idea that the terrorists were "cowards" as they exploded themselves?) A quick google check of BYU with "academic freedom." BYU is an example of a university where the right has the power to suppress opposing views. "Up front," you say, Michael? : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ MacArthur Fellow, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Harvard Professor of History, and Mormon Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, with no explanation and no chance for discussion, was declared unfit to give the keynote address at the 1993 BYU Women's Conference and has not been allowed to speak on campus since. Other speakers have been similarly disqualified without comment or discussion. Candidates for faculty positions (all of whom must be approved by the administration before being invited to campus) are routinely turned down without explanation and with no chance for departments to argue their cases... ...a climate of distrust and fear on campus. It is virtually impossible to criticize decisions of those who run the University without being branded "advocates of the adversary" (Pres. Bateman, Daily Universe Interview) and thus being defined as those whose actions seriously and adversely affect the University's mission. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just a quick dip into a university on the right. Of course no one was actually physically shouting at the "advocates of the adversary," I suppose.... lds-mormon.com