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| 2004-01-22 | |
| EFL Republican students at the University of Colorado have launched a Web site to gather complaints about left-leaning faculty, saying they want to document incidents of discrimination and indoctrination... Jones and the CU College Republicans are affiliated with Students for Academic Freedom, a national organization started by California conservative activist David Horowitz, who is pushing a Colorado effort to protect students from harassment or discrimination based on political beliefs. "I’m shocked I mean... holding professors accountable for not doing their job? Travis Leiker, 22, president of the College Democrats at CU, said classrooms are full of different perspectives. But must only discuss and agree with the professor’s viewpoints or face harassment and a lower grade. "I think the conservative students who feel there is a bias are more afraid of hearing points of view different from their own," he said. "You don’t see College Democrats doing this with the business or engineering school, which clearly have a conservative bias," Leiker said. "We could play this game as well." Perhaps because those schools dont preach their views from the lecture hall?
Additional Resources: # The complaint form, entitled "Report Bias," is linked to the CU College Republicans Web site at www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/CURepublicans. | |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #10 OP's right, it isn't just the university in Boulder. However, I don't think it's as bad to be an amateur muddlehead at large than a semi-pro muddlehead in a teaching position who uses the podium inappropriately. And we help pay them. |
| Posted by: Lynwood 2004-1-23 5:32:23 PM |
| #9 When Mechanical, Electrical, Nuclear and Civil Engineering Schools begin engaging in social promotions, I inted to install the shelter in the backyard. Note to self -got to start looking for clearance prices on Spam. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-1-22 8:12:54 PM |
| #8 There were also alot of Israeli students, with their bags packed and ready to go Seen that. I was very impressed. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-22 5:08:43 PM |
| #7 When I was in engineering school at UC Berkeley '66 thru '70, we did not have the time to indulge ourselves in a bunch of sit-ins, demonstrations, etc etc. Among engineering students there were a wide range of opinions on the Vietnam war. There were also alot of Israeli students, with their bags packed and ready to go back in 1967 if called. Alot of things that we were learning about how to design could kill alot of people if we f--ked up, so our mindset was on real things and not on what was trendy. The thing that really stuck out in my mind was that among those who were opposed to the Vietnam war there were two factions: those with rational grounds and honest convictions, and those that used it as a tool for destroying the United States. See, things have not changed much in 35 years.... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-1-22 4:18:54 PM |
| #6 I'm glad to see this. The rest of the state doesn't refer to that area as the "Peoples' Republic of Boulder" just to waste our breath. If' it's muddle-headed, feel-good, fuzzy-thinking, leftist, Marxist, or just plain weird, it's pandered to, "accepted", and even promoted in Boulder. The good news is, most of the loonies in the state gravitate there, so the rest of us don't have to put up with them. They also serve as "canaries in the coalmines", since they're usually on the front ranks for promoting the LLL tripe. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-1-22 3:49:49 PM |
| #5 The worst thing they could do to the profs is record their socialist tripe and post them on the web. It would drive the leftists absolutely nuts. |
| Posted by: 4thInfVet 2004-1-22 2:58:24 PM |
| #4 How do you put a liberal slant on an engineering course? Do you really want to know? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-1-22 1:39:53 PM |
| #3 Engineering schools have a conservative bias? What twaddle. What the Eng schools have is a low tolerance for self-delusion and pie-in-the-sky muddle-headedness. It looks the same, if you're a muddle-head. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-1-22 11:07:52 AM |
| #2 "You don’t see College Democrats doing this with the business or engineering school, which clearly have a conservative bias," Leiker said. "We could play this game as well." Number of political comments I heard from engineering faculty: 1. It amounted to "we shouldn't let people starve on the streets". Number of political comments I heard from liberal arts faculty: Countless. This includes one class that could have been extremely useful and interesting, but was turned into an endless bashing of any technology developed after 1800. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-1-22 9:56:45 AM |
| #1 Oops.... mussed up the link at the bottom. Here is a proper link to www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/CURepublicans |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-1-22 9:26:39 AM |