From The Associated Press, 1/19/06:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-professors-targeted,0,7652205.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Three UCLA Board Members Resign
By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES --
A former congressman is among three people who have quit the advisory
board of a conservative alumni group at the University of California,
Los Angeles, after it offered students money to police professors
accused of pushing liberal views.
Former Rep. James Rogan, a Republican who served two terms, sent an
e-mail Wednesday to Andrew Jones, head of the Bruin Alumni
Association, saying he didn't want his name connected to the group.
"I am uncomfortable to say the least with this tactic," Rogan wrote
in his e-mail.
"It places students in jeopardy of violating myriad regulations and
laws."
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.
The group has been offering students up to $100 to supply tapes and
notes from classes to expose professors suspected of pushing liberal
political views on their students.
Jones, 24, a 2003 graduate and former head of the campus Republican
group, said he was concerned about the level of professionalism among
teachers at the university.
"We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of
things," Jones told The Los Angeles Times.
Targeted professors have likened the effort to a witch-hunt.
"Any sober, concerned citizen would look at this and see right through
it as a reactionary form of McCarthyism," said education professor
Peter McLaren, whom the association named as No. 1 on its "The Dirty
Thirty: Ranking the Worst of the Worst."
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