Those type of people who pull this garbage would probably allow you argue your point with the class and then grade you poorly based on your views, not on how well you argued your point....which is something very scary....
only in this case they wouldn't even get that far from the sounds of it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:01 PM Subject: SPAM-LOW: RE: SPAM-LOW: RE: military recruiting on college campuses > To play devils advocate and bounce back to the original statement.... > > Is it "Academic Freedom" when a professor refuses to teach history as it > happened (refusing to touch on the wars that shaped world history) instead > putting a hard spin on it to profess a singular ideology? > > *My* definition of academic freedom would be to be presented the facts in > the most truthful manner, free of any slant or spin, and allow me to form > my > own opinions. > > Just my $.02 > > Scott A. Stewart > Webmaster/ Developer > > > 11820 Parklawn Dr > Rockville, MD 20852 > (301) 770-9610 x 335 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 3:48 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: RE: military recruiting on college campuses > > Here's another good commentary from the same page: > > Academic Freedom Is a Cornerstone of Democracy > > Academic freedom is a precious and fragile support to discussion and > intellectual growth within the academic community. It is very > difficult to have a national participative democracy without it. There > are continual challenges to academic freedom from both outside and > inside academia. Professor Doumani has given a clear and succinct > description of current external challenges specific to post-9/11 > society. At the same time, it is important to understand that academic > freedom can be undermined from within through incompetence, lack of > professionalism and bigotry. I don't think that the internal successes > and failures of academic freedom nationwide have been clearly > observed, analyzed and documented. Ad hoc assessments, based on > hearsay and anecdotal evidence, fall way short of a reliable picture > of the state of academic freedom. Also, most media attention seems to > be focused on large state-run universities and ignore small private > colleges, so I would not expect a comprehensive picture to be > available. Finally, examination of the publishing successes of few > high-profile authors tells us nothing about what happens in the > classroom nationwide. > > Tim Duncan, Dean at Cogswell Polytechnical College, at 2:25 pm EST on > March 7, 2006 > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199262 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
