"So I'm confused as to why you'd advocate government intervention in the Universities?"
I am only advocating that faculty at PUBLIC universities should not be allowed to use their classrooms as a soapbox for one political side. That is, there should be open discussion about multiple sides of an issue. Presenting students with only one side of an issue is not teaching. It is indoctrinating. If the professor wants to give his opinion, fine. But also state opposing opinions. Allow the free interchange of opinions instead of bullying students who disagree. I do not believe it is a free speech issue at all. The faculty can say anything they want at any rally outside of the classroom. While working, they should be teaching. Here is an interesting story that just happened here in NC. It is similar to the free speech argument above. A movie was just filmed here. The makers of this movie got a nice tax incentive to make the movie. Dakota Fanning was in the movie. She plays a nine year old girl. In the movie, the girl is raped. Well, a state representative after the movie decides to complain that NC should not be giving incentives to people making movies with nine year old girls being raped (IMO, this probably could have been gleaned from the script before the movie and should have been brought up before hand). A very vocal crowd of critics started raising hell saying NC is trying to squash Free Speech. Huh? He didn't say they couldn't make the movie. He just said they should not benefit from a tax saving. Similarly, I don't want to put duck tape over the mouth of anyone. I just want teaching in the class room. Also, I would like to believe that 18 years old aren't very impressionable, but I can't. After going to college, teaching at grad school, and teaching at the local community college, I can say that I think they are very impressionable. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:228718 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
