Tuesday, February 10, 2004
The Chronicle: 2/13/2004: Patrolling Professors' Politics
The Chronicle: 2/13/2004: Patrolling Professors' Politics: "Patrolling Professors' Politics
Conservative activists and students press campaigns against perceived bias on campuses"
By SARA HEBEL
Gerald Wilson, a history professor at Duke University, says a student's question on the first day of class last semester caught him off guard: "Do you have any prejudices?"
Unsure what the young man meant, Mr. Wilson decided to reply with a joke. "Yeah, Republicans," he recalls saying. (He found out later that the student was asking about writing styles.)
"Everybody laughed," the professor says.
Well, not quite everybody.
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Horowitz's guidelines are more than even-handed and shouldn't threaten anyone who is interested in equal time for everyone's view. The most important thing here is allowing students to hear all sides and make their own decisions.
For more information,
go here.
Conservative activists and students press campaigns against perceived bias on campuses"
By SARA HEBEL
Gerald Wilson, a history professor at Duke University, says a student's question on the first day of class last semester caught him off guard: "Do you have any prejudices?"
Unsure what the young man meant, Mr. Wilson decided to reply with a joke. "Yeah, Republicans," he recalls saying. (He found out later that the student was asking about writing styles.)
"Everybody laughed," the professor says.
Well, not quite everybody.
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Horowitz's guidelines are more than even-handed and shouldn't threaten anyone who is interested in equal time for everyone's view. The most important thing here is allowing students to hear all sides and make their own decisions.
For more information,
go here.
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