Scary stuff: "Radical" UCLA professors targeted by alumni group

[Taxloss]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/18/state/n025132S91.DTL

An alumni group is offering students up to $100 per class to supply tapes and notes exposing University of California, Los Angeles professors who allegedly express extreme left-wing political views.

The year-old Bruin Alumni Association on its Web site says it is concerned about professors who use lecture time to press positions against President Bush, the military and multinational corporations, among other things.

The site includes a list of what the group calls the college's 30 most radical professors.

"We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of things," said the group's president and founder, Andrew Jones, a 2003 UCLA graduate and former chairman of the student Bruin Republicans.

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So, to express a dislike of Bush or corporate and military power is "extremist" now - this is real brownshirt stuff.

[davidinalameda]

1. professional level?

does that mean marching in lock-step with these fascists?

[Taxloss]

Opinions and beliefs are unprofessional in academics.

Unless they happen to chime with those of this happy bunch of overgrown frat losers.

Alumni societies? Do they get a secret decoder ring? What are they, 12?

[davidinalameda]

11. I belong to my school's alumni society

it's the "official" group not a half-assed bunch of fascists

gee, that's my favorite word today

[RethugAssKicker]

2. Sure is scary.... The only way to fight fire is with fire...

We need to kick ass and turn the tables on these RW assholes.

This group needs to be monitored, and reported on as well.

There is a very strong desire in the RW to bring down college professors. They blame them for "liberal permissivness"!

[sasha031]

3. the good ole boys at work

[jsamuel]

4. yeah... and the former head of the "Bruin Republicans" is a great model of

centrism

:sarcasm:

[Bob3]

5. Save time ask the NSA for tapes - you know they have them

N/T

[cali]

6. Nothing scary about this. Silly, sure.

Horowitz, Hannity, et al, have been doing this shit for years. Where have you been? It rewards them with looking like fools. They have every right to do it, free speech and all. It's not brown shirt worthy, and I guarantee you the professors aren't quaking in their boots.

[Taxloss]

10. It undermines academic trust.

How would you feel if your students were being paid to be informants? That whatever you say might be reported back to unsympathetic others? If these professors are teaching history or political philosophy, then maintaining "balance" is impossible - and they don't even want balance, they want their own views.

Commentators and alumni are different beasts. The commentators have a public agenda.

[Daphne08]

7. Are these idiots trying to drag us back into the Dark Ages?

I'm really sick of this kind of crap!

[libodem]

8. Some of the most scary!

Loosing free speech for one, and hate of the intellectual mind. No free speech and no free thought. The Nazi's gathered up the intellectuals ans well as the retarded to send off to the concentration camps. This is another example of being told what to think instead of how to think. I believe it is important to teach students where to find information sources and how to discriminate propaganda from fact or opinion. One of the most important things my mother taught me is just because it's written doesn't make it true. We just expect that if it's printed that it is valid. Students should be going to school to hear differing opinions and learn to sort out for themselves what makes sense in their world view. Maybe they should just start homeschooling conservative university students if they want to keep them in the dark so desperately.

[Swamp Rat]

9. I wouldn't be surprised if Horrorwitz was somehow involved.

[applegrove]

12. Oh Cripes! What would happen if anyone got ahold of neocon lecture

notes? The myth behind the myth would be exposed. Wow! That might even make if face academic discipline!

The Free World could find out what the assumptions of their hypothesis is!

Seems they want to experiment on the world before that happens.