Video: Student surprised to find lefty prof giving anti-Palin writing assignments
posted at 12:55 pm on September 18, 2008 by Allahpundit
A.k.a. “Why David Horowitz will never run out of material.” The claim of classroom intimidation — or, in the words of The One, getting in people’s faces — is much worse than the writing assignment, needless to say. In fact, if critical thinking’s the goal, scrutinizing Palin arguably benefits Republican students more than Democrats in that it asks them to look analytically at a pol whose image they might otherwise accept at face value. But of course, critical thinking’s not the goal; if it was, the Obama cultists would likewise have been challenged to assess the “fairy tale image” of a post-partisan healer who’s somehow friendly with domestic terrorists and whose rhetorical genius consists mainly of moronic koans that would make Dr. Phil blush.
Don’t get angry. Every time one of these incidents comes to light, another dozen profs headed down this same road see the report and check themselves. I hope. Click the image to watch.
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What’s shocking is that Jana was shocked. This is status quo in academia land.
Fletch54 on September 18, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Everyone needs a guiding hand, right?
Geministorm on September 18, 2008 at 12:59 PM
No they don’t. They kick themselves for getting caught then devise more subtle ways of indoctrination.
Rod on September 18, 2008 at 1:00 PM
I would have to take an F on the assignment.
mindhacker on September 18, 2008 at 1:01 PM
Drudge is so slow, I was looking for the headline last night… looked for it this morning… and saw it up after my shower… it was worth the wait…
ninjapirate on September 18, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Students must be constantly vigilant and reject or challenge the left wing professors that live in these academic sewers.
rplat on September 18, 2008 at 1:03 PM
How about the fairy tale that the media has been perpetrating about Barak Obama for the past year….that would have been interesting.
wildweasel on September 18, 2008 at 1:03 PM
I despise the whole “the professor did this as a critical thinking exercise” excuse. Somebody call these tools out.
Pasalubong on September 18, 2008 at 1:03 PM
I’m a little shocked that it is being reported about.
mad saint jack on September 18, 2008 at 1:03 PM
In 2001 I was a junior faculty member at a major midwestern research university teaching a sophomore biology class with two senior colleagues, including the then-department head. Every year since he had taught the course he would include a lecture about the mistreatment of Japanese Americans following Pearl Harbor in whatever lecture he gave that happened to fall near December 7th. I guess the message had something to do with tolerance or something.
That year, my first one teaching this course, when he told me of his plans, instead of giving him the admiring gaze he seemed to be expecting I state simply, “You know, some of the students in class may not agree with your politics.” Remember, this was two months after September 11th and we knew that one of our students in the class had a family member in the Pentagon during the attacks.
He really seem puzzled.
But, he didn’t do his schtick in class again.
Y-not on September 18, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Ridiculing and making fun of Republican students….heh, I guess that’s open invitation for a student to ridicule the Professor’s ideology. Should be fun to watch.
Geministorm on September 18, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Wrong. It’s an English class, talk about a book. What a simple concept — everything’s not about politics.
LastRick on September 18, 2008 at 1:06 PM
I remember getting an earful of socialist BS in a MATH class when I was in college. I challenged him on what it had to do with calculus and he pretty much stopped. But he always tried to stare me down in class. It didn’t work.
Brass Pair on September 18, 2008 at 1:07 PM
When you take tuition fees that have skyrocketed faster than inflation and the “indoctrination studies” into consideration, colleges have to be one of the biggest scams going. Something just occurred to me — With all this talk about free universal heath care how come you never hear anybody talking about government funded free universal college education?
titus_pullo on September 18, 2008 at 1:07 PM
Why not a critical evaluation of Ostammer’s performance away from the teleprompter?
Captain Hate on September 18, 2008 at 1:07 PM
My daughter is 14 and in HS I informed her to let me know instantly if she ever comes across an instructor preaching to her the Liberal way, I am moderate my daughter is very conservative. I can see her getting suspended for questioning her instructors.
Luckily none of my instructors have shown that side… yet
Robyn S on September 18, 2008 at 1:08 PM
How about=
Sarah Palin couldn’t possibly be qualified to be President because she did not perform work as a community organizer, that Jesus Christ did in his earthly mission. She does not know the pain in poor and minority communities because she was did not have as her mentors, CP USA organizer Franklin Marshall while she was a youngster (as did Sen. Barack Obama) nor did she make close associates during her college days with other radical marxist professors, progressives, and Palestininan activists, as did Sen. Obama. Gov. Palin did not have close personal and professional relationships with mainstream educators like William Ayres, whose flamboyant performance art and teaching moments are still talked about to this very day.
Gov. Palin’s bourgeois basketball career and hunting, show a cruel and twisted perversion of the feminist ideal. Clearly Mrs. Palin has too large an ego to be President, as evidenced by her playing the championship game with a broken ankle. Her desire to be in the spotlight was just too overriding to the proper dictates of medical treatment, an episode that foreshadowed Mrs. Palin’s extremely risky misconduct with the pregnancy and birth of the last of her five children, Trig. In that episode, Mrs. Palin rather than looking after the well being of Trig, flew to a conference thousands of miles away from her home state of Alaska, just so she could stand in the spotlight again.
Mrs. Palin experience in governing a population less than the population of Manhattan, NYC, may make her a proper choice for Borough President, but hardly for the Presidency.
/sarcasm
eaglewingz08 on September 18, 2008 at 1:09 PM
I would have written about the Obama and Rezko scandal, How Obama took bribes and Hush money in the form of Campaign cash, While Rezko was not Paying the heating bills of the Buildings and Letting all the people freeze, Obama Selling out of the poor people in his district and NOT blowing the Whistle or Exposing the corruption!, and the Main Stream Media is just covering it up.
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 1:09 PM
oops, Vice Presidency.
eaglewingz08 on September 18, 2008 at 1:10 PM
You may write about any candidate, but I’ve already hinted as to how I will be grading.
unclesmrgol on September 18, 2008 at 1:10 PM
I saw this story without seeing the name of the instructor and the first thing I thought was “Gee, I didn’t know Chuck Hagel was moonlighting as a college instructor!”
pilamaye on September 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Not just students, faculty too. I’m at a major research university and we were approached by an organization that wanted to come talk to our students during the assigned class period about voting (and obviously register those who weren’t registered to vote already). I kindly told them no — for some reason, I considered my engineering class time for teaching, not registering voters. Go figure.
LastRick on September 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM
Barack Obama and my Slumlord Patron
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Barack Obama: I trusted Rezko
Senator says friend raised more money than previously known
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Lehman Brothers: Obama’s Rezko-Auchi conflict of interest
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 1:11 PM
This and all the other examples are all part of the larger culture war that is ongoing with the left against us. We can either not get angry and do nothing about it, or decide to take some sort of action that might have a positive change. The first step is identifying this and making our voice heard. I don’t trust these people to police themselves.
wise_man on September 18, 2008 at 1:13 PM
quite honestly, you know who’s the blame for this?? businesses. businesses force people into these liberal echo chambers for the specific purpose of having a “degree” whether that degree means something or not.
what would change universities for good is if businesses didn’t make requirements for people to have degrees to get in the door. if you’re worthless, what does it matter if you have a degree? if you’re worth something, what does it matter that you don’t have a degree? nothing will change until businesses stop forcing people to attend these liberal reeducation camps.
…and they wonder why they can’t find good employees.
bloghooligan on September 18, 2008 at 1:13 PM
I went to progressive public schools from grades 4 through 12 (no walls, no tracking in classes; “open education” was what they called it). I was in 6th grade when Spiro Agnew resigned. The teachers across the whole school (remember, no walls) whooped and hollered in celebration.
That was par for the course in my school district.
Y-not on September 18, 2008 at 1:13 PM
You’ve got to be kidding me!!!!!!!!!
And,label the sudents political leanings,
label,then harass that individual!
Pay a little attention to this,if your child
is a student,out of high school,now in college,
or University,the Liberals say their always
concerned for the children,and those children
should be safe,and not harrassed in any school,
———————————-PERIOD!!!
Unless,I guess your child is a lock-step liberal
conformist,this is as dark as it gets,and its sick!
So,it appears that during an election cycle,the
Liberal professors let their guard down,or maybe
they just get a wee bit carried away and let the
student body know who they really are!!!
Teachers/Professors should be fired for this!!!
But like any sick abuse that goes on,all the
Professors might have the same politics,and if
so, it just keeps on going,just like any other
abuse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
canopfor on September 18, 2008 at 1:13 PM
I guess I was fortunate. I went to a small high school and none of my teachers lectured us on politics. They would just that we watch the debates between Bush and Gore. In college I got the sense that a majority of my professors were liberal but they never did anything objectionable. One professor told us she was a feminist but she never assigned us anything having to do with that.
terryannonline on September 18, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Most students are afraid to challenge this crap because they know it will hurt their grade if they do. God bless those who have the courage to stand up to this academic thuggery. My daughter is working to save money to go to college next year. I will continue to remind her that she doesn’t have to put up with this assault on her values and beliefs. I think she’ll be fine and I pity the idiot professor that tries to indoctrinate her.
SKYFOX on September 18, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Evan Coyne Maloney’s “Indoctrinate U” should leave no surprises for what goes on in our institutes of higher learning. It is, indeed, indoctrination versus education. This does not surprise me.
Glynn on September 18, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Good for you!
Unfortunately, if O! gets in he’ll have a firm grip on younger voters through his mandatory national service program.
Y-not on September 18, 2008 at 1:17 PM
I’d like someone to assign their students to write a report on how an unrepentant terrorist who admitted he tried to bomb innocent people but got away on a technicality… managed to rise so high at the University of Chicago as an “education” expert and to head the Chicago Annanberg Challenge. Why was a person of this caliber allowed to have any clout in our educational system? How did it happen? What could prevent such a thing from happening again?
justincase on September 18, 2008 at 1:17 PM
I’d like to be shocked however this is commonplace in academia. I had a UCLA history professor stand there for two hours and lecture a group of eighteen-year-old students that the U.S. started WWII. Being a student of history and a few years older, I debated whether or not to confront his distortions but decided that the “A” was more important. I got the “A” and subsequently the GPA I wanted but I wish I could go back eat his lunch. Then perhaps a few of those students would have heard a bit of objectivity, reason, facts the liberating concept of historical context.
Claypigeon on September 18, 2008 at 1:18 PM
NOW you drop your pessimism, AllahP? HERE, IN THIS MATTER?
This is an epidemic that has crippled academic freedom and true academic research for OVER THIRTY YEARS, man. And you think showing one OF THOUSANDS of examples will cause the perps to wake up and fly right?
These people are a vast network of mini-dictators, most of them thoroughly indoctrinated and vetted–because if you are not of the Leftist Hive you are not let into the fold.
These people are the true Hard Core of the Hard Left, protected by tenure and the nature of academia, and they will NEVER yield.
The solution? Sadly, there is none
Janos Hunyadi on September 18, 2008 at 1:18 PM
That’ll be next. Obama already supports in-state (i.e. taxpayer-subsidized) college tuition rates for illegal aliens. Obama is also proposing a $4,000 a year tax credit for college tuition, in return for which the students would have to sign up for community service (like his civilian security forces?).
AZCoyote on September 18, 2008 at 1:18 PM
See how responsible and self restrained our education system has become, why not trust teachers to teach Sex-Ed to kindergarteners?
Maxx on September 18, 2008 at 1:19 PM
I hope too, but things seem to have become worse since Churchill. What we need is a national directory of profs that parents can check prior to applying to schools.
Thanks for posting this on the main page, AP.
Connie on September 18, 2008 at 1:19 PM
“getting in people’s faces”…Now that’s the obama I know,..the aggressive intimidation Chicago way. It’s a “power Thing”..isn’t that what obama said?!
christene on September 18, 2008 at 1:20 PM
If they don’t kill you in the process, you might survive, certainly the wiser if not stronger. It goes beyond assignments for a grade. Sever wounds inflicted against brilliant students’ reputations by vicious public instructors need to be reported AND DATA COLLECTED not just for “public knowledge” but to levy political reaction against the Left with specifics. An immediate threat of tax payer retaliation for professorial lies argued as institutional doctrine “in your face” is to rescind tax payer subsidies of the institutions. Leave it to them to demote, cut pay, or fire employees who trespass against legitimacy. LOL; three strikes you’re out contract clause that defies tenure.
So follow the money. Prevent tax moneys subsidizing ideological intolerance and/or historical revisionism. If the elitist intelligentsia wish to promote it, they do it on their own dollar via their own RED CENT. Not our tax dollar. THAT TAKES A LEGISLATURE IN SESSION, not on vacation.
maverick muse on September 18, 2008 at 1:20 PM
It’s one of the reasons I went into the career field that I did (massage therapy). I attended a trade school, yes, but there was no time for extraneous instruction. What doesn’t make any sense to me is that in Maryland, where I’m moving, I have to have 60 college credits in addition to my certification. My trade school credits don’t count – so I have to enroll in a local college. I’m sure I can find a bastion of conservative thinking there, right?
I don’t need a piece of paper saying I’m smart and educated… And it’s enough work to keep my kids protected from this looney leftist crap without having to worry about my husband and I in our own educational pursuits.
Anna on September 18, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Wonder what grade the people who choose to do their essay on Obama will get?
ctmom on September 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Critical thinking. What a tool the throw back hippy mouthpiece for this instructor. Bet they met later for a nice big fattie.
Wade on September 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Ayers is at UIC, not U of C. Very different places. Although, as a alumna of the latter, I’m not much more proud of them for sucking up to O! and giving Michelle such a cushy appointment.
Y-not on September 18, 2008 at 1:21 PM
I endured this in 8th grade for the 1976 election between Carter and Ford.
I was one of 4 students in my class who followed their conscience and supported Ford. Our teacher made it very clear what his political philosophies were – which always made me wonder how many of the kids who opted for Carter did so to get an easy A (which they did).
We 4 Ford supporters were ridiculed openly – by students and the teacher. At some point during all this, my parents complained to the school (w/out my knowledge until after the actual election was over). Suddenly, in mid stream, our teacher became more balanced about his treatment and what he tolerated in class.
Today, that same complaint would likely be greeted with a defense of Freedom of Speech.
I did read that Metro College is investigating claims of bias, harrassment and bullying. I suspect it’s the harrassment & bullying part that has prompted the investigation, not the bias.
KrisinNE on September 18, 2008 at 1:22 PM
I’m glad someone came out and said something. This goes on so much and no one reports it. I agree that it’s harassment and shouldn’t be happening anywhere.
Luckedout on September 18, 2008 at 1:23 PM
I’m in the process of getting a MA in education at an extremely liberal school.
My “Multicultural Education” class was a non-stop barrage of Marxist, anti-white, and morally relevative anti-American propaganda.
The first assignment was for us to watch Obama’s speech on Race–Of course, all the blind lefties in the class, everyone but me, thought it was the most amazing speech since MLK’s “I Have a Dream”. I came out and said it was a fraud, and listed the reasons. The teacher cut me off midway through.
This teacher proceeded to delete my postings on our webforum 8 times. 1 was Obama related, a factual quote from Obama I posted in response to “how do you think Obama feels about being bi-racial” discussion question. I said, ‘he feels like Malcolm X; he wants the white blood in him expunged, torn out. And that this made no sense since Obama had a completely different experience than Malcolm. His white grandmother raised him, the sex being his mother and father was consensual…’ When I posted proof Obama said this, the teacher deleted my comment. Needless to say, the teacher was an Obama supporter.
The hit fit the shan we the Professor deleted 7 of my posts in one morning as I was rebutting this Islamist posing as a moderate. It was my position that this person was completely innapropriate to represent moderate American Muslims. The nerfball Bill Moyers’ interview with Imam Zaid Shakir we were forced to watch contained Anti-American tirades and obvious taqiyya.
The Professor proceeded to delete my posts with links to articles such as this–
Faux Moderate Muslims—Zudi Jasser
Freedom of speech?
Peace_Sells... on September 18, 2008 at 1:24 PM
If I lived in Colorado I’d be saving my money for out of state tuition and send my kids somewhere else. Professors everywhere tend to be overwhelmingly liberal wacko but Colorado seems to have more than its fair share. It seems like Colorado has really suffered from the infusion of California libs.
mrsmwp on September 18, 2008 at 1:24 PM
This is why Metro is referred to as MIT – Metro in Town or UCLA – University of Colorado Lawrence & Auraria. After two painful years I split for The University of Denver. Like every other state run institution of higher education their highest concern is maintaining the steady flow of tax dollars.
jdkchem on September 18, 2008 at 1:24 PM
I was lectured by liberal professors in the 1970s. This has been going on a long time. I was president of the College Republicans during the 1976 campaign. There was a campus debate and the candidates were supposed to send surrogates to debate. Our GOP state rep. canceled on me at the last minute and I had to represent President Ford. My history professor showed up to represent Jimmy Carter. You can imagine how much fun I had in that class. The next year I switched majors from poli. sci. to economics, so I would not have to sit through any more brainwashing.
rockmom on September 18, 2008 at 1:24 PM
yep
The presumptive Joshua warming up his Generation of thugs to burn, baby, burn!
maverick muse on September 18, 2008 at 1:24 PM
The grading thing is real. I had an Ed Psych professor years ago who stopped intelligent conversations in the classroom in order to make ad hominem attacks on anyone who opposed his liberal view. I got C’s in his class except for the one paper that also got reviewed by his supervisor. I got an A on that one.
Professors who have been anonymously flagged for bias should have all their grading reviewed in retrospect to see if they evaluated their students according to academic standards and performance objectives. If they graded based on something else, they should be fired.
Besides that, a students’ bill of rights would be great.
justincase on September 18, 2008 at 1:25 PM
Most of what that piece of paper is for is to “prove” that you either “conformed willingly” to liberal thinking OR that you were “properly indoctrinated” into liberalism.(either or it’s the same thing, that’s what they are after, “converts to liberalism”, they don’t care about higher education)
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 1:26 PM
I’d ask to meet the gentleman behind the gym, and then take my F
Ernest on September 18, 2008 at 1:27 PM
What does Metro State special in, Metrosexuals and
MetroCommunity Organizers?Wade on September 18, 2008 at 1:27 PM
Y-not at 1:21pm
Thanks for the correction.
justincase on September 18, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Thanks for posting this, AllahPundit.
I worry about the power of intimidation and indoctrination.
This is not only happening in colleges, the national media & Hollywood, it’s happening in high schools around the country. I honestly fear that the Supreme Court is 1 or 2 votes away from allowing Canadian style “Human Rights Commissions” in our country. These fascist activities must be publicized and fought at every opportunity and wherever they are found.
Loxodonta on September 18, 2008 at 1:32 PM
Took me about a minute and a half to find Andrew Kent Hallam’s email address.
Frankly, his email would be much more entertaining than Sarah Palin’s. Just imagine the crap stinking up his account.
Think Rage Boy
It looks like he’s already taking down some links and photos from various pages.
Somewhere Mr Hallan is feverously removing his photos and contact information from various, eehhem, social networking sites. “mmmmm..wonder where want2bheldin_Denver went??”
So funny, because I’m guessing that 48 hours ago Andrew was text messaging with glee everyone he knows that Sarah Palin’s email had been broken into.
Take another bite of the pillow Andrew, this very public rectal exam will be over in about 72 hours.
moxie_neanderthal on September 18, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Hey! I resemble that remark!
No. Not really. I have a brain.
Although, I could try it tonight in my microbiology class. My students are learning how to do a Gram stain. For their reports I could ask them about media bias and how it relates to the structures of bacterial cell walls.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 18, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Think its expensive now? Wait till the government gets involved with the “bottomless pit” that is our taxes the price of everything to do with college will skyrocket.
Almost everything the federal government touches turns to shit. Just look at what they did to the mortgage markets with Fannie and Freddie
titus_pullo on September 18, 2008 at 1:36 PM
Liberal Professors, are similar to Islamic Terrorists on a Jihad!
Convert to Liberalism or Get an F, we will cut your GPA in 1/2! :|
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 1:37 PM
It’s what the left excels in. But don’t tell them this is also their number one self-destructive tactic. It backfires, and only riles themselves up, and turns off people who would otherwise take them seriously. Just see examples of their grassroots protests, to MoveOn PAC, and code pink. Not to mention what happened to Michelle Malkin as she was harassed by Alex Jones at the DNC convention while his goons were shouting for her death.
Like I said, getting in people’s faces is what the left does best.
wise_man on September 18, 2008 at 1:38 PM
You were lucky. Most of them are not so restrained. I remember sitting in a Western Civ. class my freshman year in college, while a female professor lectured us about how only stupid and uninformed people still belived in the existence of God. In my junior year, I took a class in Middle Eastern History taught by a Pakistani nutcase who spent the entire semester trying to re-write history in general — telling us that every important invention (e.g., telephone, automobile, etc.), as well as every advance in science, were actually the work of Arabs, but the credit had been stolen from them by greedy Americans, Europeans, and of course, the evil Jews. He spent the rest of class time trying to indoctrinate us all into Islam — “the only true religion.”
AZCoyote on September 18, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Even when institutions REQUIRE that all instructors be critiqued anonymously by students and filed for report to the institution, shared “confidentially” per instructor:
1. Instructors refuse to give students the required form to be judged.
2. Deans likely share the same liberal politics (why would a different ideology be hired to supervise the teachers) and would not expose nor censure an egregious teacher or institutional process in practice.
IT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO TAX PAYERS APPLYING PRESSURE UPON LEGISLATORS TO RESCIND TAX FUNDING TO PORK as these professors are swine and their elite institutions of higher learning have become pigsties. Why cast another generation of pearls before swine to be torn asunder and eaten alive?
Online education may have another appeal beyond “convenience”.
maverick muse on September 18, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Why? Because two schools employ liberal nut cases so all Colorado schools employ liberal nut cases?
Here I thought ignorant gross generalizations were the realm of the kostards.
jdkchem on September 18, 2008 at 1:40 PM
Adjunct professor…and that’s all he will ever be.
benrand on September 18, 2008 at 1:40 PM
It could have been worse, the professor could have made the entire class write a 10 page report on Obama’s qualifications to be president. Even if i double space with a large font i don’t think i could fill one page.
jjcarrillo on September 18, 2008 at 1:41 PM
I feel left out. I went to Texas A&M and majored in mechanical engineering. I never got to have any crazy left-wing professors. I would have loved to spar with them…
TexasAg03 on September 18, 2008 at 1:41 PM
bwahahahahahahaha!
maverick muse on September 18, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Wait until Obama’s “night of the long knives”, the Government funded Public army will be replaced by the Nation of Islam thugs, remember he went to the million man march in 1995, i’m sure that they have gotten more Converts and recruits from the Prison system in the last 13 years..
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/03/let-the-nation-of-islam-patrol-miami-sure-what-could-go-wrong/
See, they are already doing it..
Chakra Hammer on September 18, 2008 at 1:43 PM
Oh come, now. You surely could have filled in the spaces with plenty of “Uhhhhs” and “Ummmms”.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on September 18, 2008 at 1:44 PM
TexasAg03 on September 18, 2008 at 1:41 PM
Just visit the Longhorn campus.
I remember UT Young Republicans used to have their table out by the Tower enlisting and promoting student involvement in service projects back in the late 1970s.
They were no longer visible by the 1990s @ UT.
Perhaps they exist, but not out in the open like before.
maverick muse on September 18, 2008 at 1:47 PM
I have gone back to school for my BSN. One of the classes I am required to take is ‘Political Science’. The first class the professor is telling the class of 35 students that the word is ‘out there’ that the US plans on bombing Iran which would cause Iran to take out Israel. I had kept my mouth shut do the first 2 1/2 hours. I told him that I was reading on the web that the US was attempting to hold Israel back from bombing Iran. I guess there goes my ‘A’.
red131 on September 18, 2008 at 1:47 PM
For the folks who are (quite properly) exasperated about the tendency of academics to use their classrooms as bully pupits to spread liberal ideology, please do not give up on higher education. I understand the frustration, but I d don’t think the solution is to abandon our university system. It is a great one.
By my count there have been three professors on this thread who oppose(d) using their positions to push political agendas – two scientists, one engineer. Please keep that in mind when you consider whether or not your Congressman should vote for increased funding to NSF and NIH.
IMHO, the really broken part of our universities is in the liberal arts, not the sciences and engineering.
Y-not on September 18, 2008 at 1:51 PM
In 1986 at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, I had an outright Communist professor for an upper division Geography class. The focus for the quarter: Mexico (before the loosening), Soviet Union, and China.
He was an absolute piece of shit proseletyzing during class, and boy would he go into meltdown when anybody in class countered his bullshit.
Students need to be brave and call these punks out right in class with the videophone going to record it.
Sapwolf on September 18, 2008 at 1:54 PM
At least college students have the option of taking another class or quitting, but it is unacceptable when high school teachers start force-feeding this liberal excrement down students’ throats.
m064404 on September 18, 2008 at 1:56 PM
Alumni need to let their university presidents know what they think about the shenanigans some professors pull in their classrooms.
Money talks. Trust me. I’ve been a faculty member as well as a development officer (fundraiser). Student and parent complaints are not as effective as complaints from alumni.
Y-not on September 18, 2008 at 2:10 PM
The truth: a brainwashed monument to insecurity in a position of power using that power to have his own preconceptions reinforced.
How sad.
In 1995, in an undergraduate class, I had a liberal professor actually call me and another student “stupid.” Out loud. Because we weren’t on board with the constant America bashing at the core of the class.
“Stupid.” Because we actually thought, you know, for ourselves. Critically.
These types ought to be embarrassed. But they’re not smart enough to even realize that they’ve sold their souls.
Professor Blather on September 18, 2008 at 2:26 PM
There was a bit if a social get-together where I work, at which I overheard professors discussing their efforts to campaign for Obama.
The disdain they held for the “toothless rednecks” that wanted tax cuts instead of government health care was palpable, and apparently universal.
Count to 10 on September 18, 2008 at 2:33 PM
We need to have conservative schools open who hire conservative teachers
Conservative Voice on September 18, 2008 at 2:34 PM
One of the things that perked up my ears about Mr. Palin is his interest in vocational schooling.
Having gone through the who academic learning process myself, It occurs to me that we should probably encourage people to learn something, you know, useful, instead.
Count to 10 on September 18, 2008 at 2:40 PM
No. Because if he criticize the donks too much the kid will get a bad grade.
Blake on September 18, 2008 at 2:48 PM
I sincerely doubt it. If anything, now this professor’s made the news.
As everyone here knows, schools are filled with liberals, even some of the most radical of liberals, even former terrorists. This won’t make the man less popular.
Esthier on September 18, 2008 at 3:06 PM
Please visit and support, if you can, FIRE. I do. They are leading the battle against liberal indoctrination and suppression of free speech in our institutions of higher learning.
Rod on September 18, 2008 at 3:25 PM
I heard about this earlier in the week and emailed Metro. I told them that if this continues, this Coloradan won’t be sending my kids to your school.
reshas1 on September 18, 2008 at 3:31 PM
I used to love these sort of assignments in my MANDATORY “Women’s Studies” course. I always managed to set the prof off, whereupon she’d blow 3/4 of the class time on a demented rant while I chuckled gleefully.
Needless to say, I got an “F” for daring to disagree. I think she would have given me a F- if she could have.
I didn’t care. Engineering major, and the admin said you had to TAKE the class, not pass it.
mojo on September 18, 2008 at 3:42 PM
I would go into teaching for that goal.
Anna on September 18, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Didn’t stop Ward Churchhill!
RMCS_USN on September 18, 2008 at 3:44 PM
I’m an English prof myself — never, and I repeat, never have I told my students who to vote for, or picked on political candidates…it’s an ENGLISH CLASS Mr. Hallam, teach English you nimrod.
Is there a dearth of English literature? Last I checked, NOPE. Boy these idiots embarrass me.
Richard Romano on September 18, 2008 at 3:45 PM
Good luck finding a school for your kid where things like this don’t happen.
For two years I went to a conservative baptist school that only 12 years ago allowed dancing on campus, but even then our own alumni were disparaged for being missionaries in a country where Christianity is illegal. They were in jail at the time uncertain of their fate, and the professor was calling them selfish.
And many of the other teachers couldn’t even hide their disdain for everything the school was supposed to stand for.
I actually had better luck at a state school.
Esthier on September 18, 2008 at 3:49 PM
It is my understanding that businesses were forced into this situation because a lawsuit stopped them from being able to administer their own aptitude tests. I know I took a tech job down in San Diego decades ago that started with all applicants taking a test, then “qualified” applicants began a classroom training. Now they only hire “educated” people but the pay still starts low/average for Cali.
rhodeymark on September 18, 2008 at 3:50 PM
I’m just curious. What do you teach specifically?
Esthier on September 18, 2008 at 3:51 PM
Maybe that’s just a California law, because here in Texas at my job we do make people take a few tests. Then again, it’s an insanely easy test, so maybe that’s why it’s allowed.
Esthier on September 18, 2008 at 3:53 PM
I concur with this. Being in engineering, I don’t feel the liberal bias that so obviously exists in the other disciplines.
LastRick on September 18, 2008 at 3:57 PM
Isn’t there another fanatical leftist that teaches at Metro? I just can’t think of her name.
Harpoon on September 18, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Has the student who complained been hounded off campus yet? By her fellow students exercising their right to free speech, I mean.
Jim Treacher on September 18, 2008 at 4:05 PM
I was so proud the day my 14 year old got up and walked out of her science class refusing to watch Gore’s abomination. The teacher by then knew that calling home would be futile, and punishing her would only get him in trouble.
I am also proud that many of my students have had the courage to stand up against their liberal class mates. I wonder if it helps that I give them great grades for courage!!!
InTheBellyoftheBeast on September 18, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Congrats on raising such a kid.
I tended to just argue with my teachers, but walking out takes some guts.
Esthier on September 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM
why is it a person who works 5 or 7 years to put herself through college in iowa or idaho or alaska be put down because she has to work so hard to get a college
education.
lberals in fact think that any person black, women, white male should in fact not have a chance to be a successful person UNLESS THAT PERSON IS JUST LIKE ME.1
TomLawler on September 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM
why is it a person who works 5 or 7 years to put herself through college in iowa or idaho or alaska be put down because she has to work so hard to get a college
education.
lberals in fact think that any person black, women, white male should in fact not have a chance to be a successful person UNLESS THAT PERSON IS JUST LIKE ME.1
FIMINISM denies her any rights. I do not think so!
THE LEFT’S
TomLawler on September 18, 2008 at 4:24 PM
I get worried we are experiencing the beginning of a huge backlash against higher education.
On the one hand, we have populist congressmen wanting to dictate to colleges and universities how their endowments should be spent/managed with the apparent goal of making college “affordable.” Sounds great on first blush, but where is it stated that we all have a right to go to an expensive college (or any college at all, for that matter)? Having been on the administrative (non-academic) side of universities, I can tell you that managing endowments is complicated business — not one that will be improved by government meddling.
On the other hand, we have a backlash from people who are sick of academics using their access to young people to spread their liberal political views. In its mildest form, the backlash manifests itself as an overall hostility to higher education; however, further along this continuum are people who have such a distrust for educators that they feel the only way to combat them is to push for the teaching of intelligent design in science classrooms.
Unfortunately, the effect of all of this brouhaha is to disenfranchise the public, leading in inadequate funding of NSF, and to a lesser extent NIH. So the Ward Churchills of the world continue on their destructive rants (after all, they don’t need grant dollars to run their scholarly research programs) and the academic scientists and engineers, who are teaching subjects that directly impact on U.S. competitiveness, struggle to fund their labs or leave for higher-paying jobs in industry.
Y-not on September 18, 2008 at 4:32 PM
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