Advisor (Rogan) Quits UCLA Alumni Group

[realFedUp]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-rogan19jan19,0,2184523.story?coll=la-headlines-california

Advisor Quits UCLA Alumni Group
Ex-GOP Rep. James E. Rogan resigns from the fledgling conservative organization, which has offered to pay students to report on instructors.

By Peter Y. Hong, Times Staff Writer

Former U.S. Rep. James E. Rogan has resigned from the advisory board of a conservative UCLA alumni group after learning that the group's founder had offered students $100 payments to record professors' "non-pertinent ideological comments."

Rogan, a Republican who represented Glendale and Pasadena for two terms and was a manager in the impeachment trial of President Clinton, said he did not want his name linked to the controversial effort to record professors in their classrooms.

Rogan, now a lawyer in Irvine, on Wednesday sent an e-mail tendering his resignation to Andrew Jones, head of the Bruin Alumni Assn. and its one full-time employee. The year-old group, supported by donations, has no formal connection to UCLA.

In his e-mail, Rogan wrote, "I am uncomfortable to say the least with this tactic. It places students in jeopardy of violating myriad regulations and laws."

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[Wilms]

1. I'm surprised and impressed.

Maybe Rogan did some soul searching.

snip

Rogan said that when he agreed to serve on the alumni group's advisory board, he believed its role would be to mentor Republican students and student groups. He said he did not recall any discussion of faculty monitoring, which he does not support.

"I went to Berkeley as an undergraduate and UCLA law school. I don't need to go to a website to learn there is an overabundance of liberal faculty," Rogan said.

Being taught by liberal professors is a simple fact of life when attending an elite university, Rogan said. "You should not go to Harvard and be surprised to find an over-abundance of liberals," he said.

Of his own education, Rogan said the faculty's ideology "doesn't seem to have hurt me."

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[realFedUp]

2. Liberal=telling the truth

IMO.

[realFedUp]

12. Maybe Rogan saw that his name attached as an advisor...

to this Reichwingnut wasn't going to be helpful to his career.

[joefree1]

3. Plus two others

Rogan's resignation follows those of Harvard historian Stephan Thernstrom and UCLA professor emeritus Jascha Kessler, who both quit the board once they learned of the group's activities.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/19/professors.targeted.ap/

I'm glad this story got press. Sunlight is the the best disinfectant.

[coffeenap]

4. They list themselves as tax-exempt. Here is a link to their site:

http://www.bruinalumni.com/contactus.html

Perhaps we can use the IRS telephone number they so kindly include to complain about their tax-exempt status, especially since they espouse racism on the next pages! :grr: :puke:

[Lochloosa]

15. I believe this is the tax code that is relevant

The organization must not be organized or operated for the benefit of private interests, such as the creator or the creator's family, shareholders of the organization, other designated individuals, or persons controlled directly or indirectly by such private interests. No part of the net earnings of an IRC Section 501(c)(3) organization may inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. A private shareholder or individual is a person having a personal and private interest in the activities of the organization. If the organization engages in an excess benefit transaction with a person having substantial influence over the organization, an excise tax may be imposed on the person and any managers agreeing to the transaction.

"Benefit of private interests...or persons controlled directly or indirectly by such private interests."

They were PAID to write the articles!

http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=96099,00.html

[Nostradammit]

5. A short list of Andrew Jones accomplishments (from his web site)

Chair – UCLA Bruin Republicans
- Led first Affirmative Action Bake Sale in the country, February 3, 2003, covered by multiple major media sources
- Organized and led counterprotests to every major anti-war or pro-affirmative action demonstration on campus, including March 5, 2003 and November 19, 2003, and organized and lead a pro-war demonstration on October 16, 2002
- Brought to UCLA national leaders L. Paul Bremer, R. James Woolsey, and conservative luminaries Bill Bennett, Ann Coulter, David Horowitz, and Dinesh D’Souza
- Built a moribund club of 90 into a powerhouse of 320
- Served as campaign manager for slate of conservative students who gained the highest percentage of votes for a first-year party in over a decade
- Protested Alumni Association award ceremony for Tim Robbins’ selection as Alumni of the Year in 2003


a powerhouse of 320!

the luminous Ann Coulter!

[onenote]

6. I notice that he doesn't list service in Iraq as one of his accomplishment

He's a general in the Chickenhawk army. He should list that.

onenote

[underpants]

7. Wow

Served as campaign manager for slate of conservative students who gained the highest percentage of votes for a first-year party in over a decade

So what was the percentage? in a whole decade you say?

[realFedUp]

8. I imagine all this is giving him a salary...if not a job with the Bushies

nt

[UCLA02]

13. I was there in 2001 or '02 for Horowitz. Great student protests!

I don't know if this is the time he says he got Horowitz, but there was a great anti-Horowitz contingent by the students when he spoke.

[Ian David]

9. Can we buy Andrew Jones' phone records? n/t

[realFedUp]

10. his cell phone records would be interesting...calls to DC?

[Ian David]

11. He has no respect for privacy. Anyone have $110 to spend? n/t

[emad]

14. Guardian:

US university spying scandal prompts resignations

Agencies
Friday January 20, 2006

"Any sober, concerned citizen would look at this and see right through it as a reactionary form of McCarthyism," said Peter McLaren, an education professor whom the association named as No 1 on its list of The Dirty Thirty: Ranking the Worst of the Worst.




http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1691269,00.html