Fight the Campus Communists!
By Heidi Burton
Utah Statesman | March 26, 2004
Conservative students of Utah were challenged Friday by a national
pundit to do their part to end political indoctrination on their
campuses.
David Horowitz, a conservative activist and author of the Academic Bill
of Rights, spoke in favor of intellectual diversity at the convention
for the Utah Federation of College Republicans in Logan.
"[Liberals] have corrupted the university and treated it as a political
soapbox," Horowitz told the approximately 200 students in attendance,
many of them from Utah State University.
Horowitz is seeking to get state legislatures across the country to
support the Academic Bill of Rights. The bill is intended to defend the
right of students to be treated with respect by the university,
regardless of their
political or religious beliefs, and to promote fairness in student
affairs.
It has become all too common for students to suffer unfairly from the
effects of a partisan professor, Horowitz said.
As an example, Horowitz said a professor at the University of Northern
Colorado put "Explain why George Bush is a war criminal" as a midterm
essay question. Horowitz said one student instead wrote on why Saddam
Hussein is a war criminal, and received an F.
Horowitz said a student at USU also received a failing grade on a paper
for challenging a liberal view of the war on Iraq.
"In a decent world, that professor would be fired," Horowitz said. "In
this world, that gave [the professor] the power to shut the student up
so he can graduate."
Horowitz said professors have the right to express their opinions, but
they also have a professional obligation to avoid straying outside the
subject matter of the course to convey contempt for a particular party,
ideology or religion.
When President Ronald Reagan went in for surgery, Horowitz said, he
asked the doctors, "Are any of you Democrats?" Horowitz said the
doctors replied that they were all Republicans for that day.
"We still live in an age when we can trust our doctors to act
professionally," Horowitz said. "They are entitled to their opinions
about politics and religion. As professionals, they take an oath to
treat all their patients regardless of politics, regardless of
religion.
--
Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They
are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,
selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.
Liberals HATE America!
.
|
