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To: RMF who wrote (8176)	3/4/2005 9:56:23 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

None of what you are clamoring about is relevant. The main point is that once again the pure hypocrisy in academia. It's about the selective application of freedom of expression & protecting tenured academics in their pursuit of higher learning. This tenured professor was sanctioned for challenging the viewpoints of certain Muslim students at a student activities fair (not a prayer session as you claimed). Had he done the exact same thing to a group of Christians, the college would have defended his freedom of expression to the gates of Hell. Count on it. The point is that liberal academia protects tenured professors who attack anything that their liberal groupthink cocoons stand for (no matter how outrageous their attacks may be); - Anti-war - Anti-America - Anti-Bush - Anti-Semitism - Anti-Christianity - diversity.... unless you are a conservative, Christian or white male - terrorists... 'er victims of American imperialism et.c, etc., etc. But when tenured professors dare challenge anything held sacred by this same group, there is no freedom of expression allowed or protected. The professor is sanctioned immediately & heavily. The case I posted is a prime example. There are simply too many instances of this to claim it is anecdotal.

To: RMF who wrote (8176)	3/4/2005 1:06:19 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 35834

PRESTOPUNDIT DOES WARD CHURCHILL tell us all we need to know about the contemporary University? A debate. frontpagemag.com UPDATE: The universities are the power base of the left: <<< (From the Rocky Mountain News Op/Ed) The debate stimulated by the Churchill affair has escalated into a long overdue exploration into the politics and processes of higher education. The sacred cow of tenure is under review, along with the limits of academic freedom and the shameful lack of ideological balance within college faculties. It's like peeling off the outer layers of an artichoke to get to the heart of the issue .. Self-important academics believe themselves to be beyond reproach, sitting as philosopher-kings, dispensing their wisdom to the ignorant masses. Nonsense. They're ordinary people, government employees dependent on their customers and the taxpayers for their income, and ultimately accountable to their bosses and the citizens who elect the Board of Regents. Here's what many of us .. would like to see: substantive change .. at the University of Colorado. It must start with .. regents who have a commitment to restoring real, intellectual diversity and an evenhanded exchange of ideas. That means hiring conservative professors to balance the now left-lopsided scales. It means ending politically correct speech codes for students and the "diversity" and "sensitivity" re-education camps freshmen are forced to attend. It means a housecleaning of administrators, starting with President Betsy Hoffman. It means hiring new administrators with sufficient backbone to take on the entrenched leftist faculty .. rockymountainnews.com >>> A modest proposal -- privatize CU. denverpost.com It couldn't hurt when you contemplate an institution headed downhill -- rampant alchoholism, a rash of student deaths, a corrupt sports program, Ward Churchill and his 200 leftist supports on the faculty, sharply declining applicant quality, a miserable national reputation, big tuition hikes, and a President people would like to see fired. The professors at UC have themselves quite an institution there in Boulder. denverpost.com denverpost.com Posted by Greg Ransom hayekcenter.org