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The next Karl Rove?
from Cindy Chang at the NYTimes this morning:
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23 - A 24-year-old conservative alumnus who announced earlier this month that he planned to pay students at the University of California, Los Angeles, to tape-record the lectures of left-leaning professors backed down after U.C.L.A. officials informed him on Monday that he would be violating school policy.
The alumnus, Andrew Jones, said he abandoned the plan to save his student supporters from possible legal action by the university, even though he believed they would be engaged in a “newsgathering” effort protected by the First Amendment.
Mr. Jones says he is confident that students will volunteer to tape lectures or take detailed notes in an effort to expose their professors as liberal partisans who do not tolerate dissent in their classrooms.
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Mr. Jones worked briefly during and after college for the conservative activist David Horowitz, who has been lobbying state legislatures to pass an “Academic Bill of Rights” to protect students with minority viewpoints from partisan professors.
Mr. Horowitz says he fired Mr. Jones, accusing him of pressing U.C.L.A. students to file false reports that they had been physically attacked by leftist activists.
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1 Comment
1. MW replies at 24th January 2006, 7:57 pm :
even though he believed they would be engaged in a “newsgathering” effort
That’s funny. I wasn’t aware that that’s how you spell “spying”.
to expose their professors as liberal partisans who do not tolerate dissent in their classrooms
Which sounds really dangerous to me. I’ve known students who would lodge this kind of a complaint against a professor just because they didn’t like them. Besides which, if you think your professor is being unfair, the proper thing to do is to take it to the proper authorities within the school, not to some nutjob who wants to use the complaints for political gain.
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