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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

The most telling thing in your post is that you are referencing the " U of 
Alabama" not Berkeley or the University of Wisconsin.  It is just another 
indication of pervasive group-think. Academic freedom will have to be fought 
for by the students and the parents who pay the bills.

  Tenure is one of those things that could dissappear with this financial 
crisis.  Faculty, then, might actually have to prove their ideas to keep 
their jobs ...bobford

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--- On Thu, 11/6/08, DSanner106 AT aol.com <DSanner106 AT aol.com> wrote:

> From: DSanner106 AT aol.com <DSanner106 AT aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The longest post yet-Anger
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 8:37 AM
> My wife is a Professor and says she is like an island in a
> university of  
> liberal thought. The Profs actually
> sit around discussing how they can incorporate their
> political views into  
> lectures that are apolitical. They are
> pulling out texts they have taught word for word for 20
> years and stuffing  
> made up stories and statistics into their lecture to , and
> I am quoting, "scare 
>  the little b*&^%A%ds into thinking the right way"
> What is the right way to  
> think?? What is the University system for if not to
> encourage FREE thought? My 
>  daughter is a sophomore at U of Alabama and even some of
> the most liberal  
> thinkers on this list would have to stop and stare at some
> of the stuff her  
> profs have been saying this fall. Her computer science prof
> told all 250  
> students in his lecture hall to run and pull all their
> money out of the bank  
> because the republicans will raid all the banks and steal
> all the money the day  
> after they lose the election. Her English teacher told the
> class that  
> Republicans are all racists, and unless you are a racist
> you will vote for  Obama. She 
> also offered extra credit for students writing pro Obama
> essays no  other 
> position or topic gets points. Volunteers for the Obama
> campus group were  allowed 
> election day off class, but not the McCain group as they
> did not  properly 
> request such a privilege. 
>  
> Drew
>  
>  
> In a message dated 11/6/2008 9:32:29 A.M. Eastern Standard
> Time,  
> bobford79 AT yahoo.com writes:
> 
> Among  our friends and acquaintances are a number of
> tenured and non-tenured  
> university faculty.  You have no idea the delusional world
> in which these  
> people live.  They think I am eccentric because they are
> aware that I  carry a 
> firearm (No, I don't wear one openly in a holster --
> not a wannabe  cowboy); 
> and, this is 'Arizona'.
> 
> It is hard to imagine the  simplistic world of thought
> encompassed by faculty 
> in places like NY state or  Wisconsin.  That is just the
> way things are, for 
> now.  And, those  are the people influencing those
> idealistic students.  Heck 
> ,out here,  the illegal Mexicans care more about individual
> freedom and 
> liberties than the  so-called academics 
> ..............bobford
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