Hearing into bias falls short of billing. The probe of professors

malachi

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Tue Jan-10-06 01:01 PM
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Hearing into bias falls short of billing. The probe of professors

said to inject politics into classes at Pa. public colleges drew just one student speaker.

Yesterday's hearing on academic freedom at Pennsylvania's public universities was hyped by conservative activists as a "historic moment," in which school administrators would finally be "called to account" in front of state legislators for allowing student "indoctrination and abuse" by leftist professors.

But the hearing at Temple University did not live up to that billing.
A professor scheduled to testify about alleged rampant liberal bias at Temple canceled. The sole student to appear before the legislative committee acknowledged he had never filed a formal grievance.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/13588041.htm

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meganmonkey

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Tue Jan-10-06 01:07 PM
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1. Bwahahahahaha!!!

:rofl:

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fasttense

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Tue Jan-10-06 01:15 PM
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2. I went to Temple for the first two years of my college education

and never had a problem. I was much more conservative back then.

No wonder only one student showed up. This is a false issue drummed up by the republicans in the hopes of getting the college conservative vote like the religious conservative vote. The repukes hope to use the college conservative vote in order to hide the transfer of money. Like they used the religious right to mask the gambling money they were taking from the Indians. I wonder who they are bilking this time?

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meganmonkey

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Tue Jan-10-06 01:31 PM
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3. It is a joke

If they want more conservative professors, why don't they become professors themselves?

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iam

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Tue Jan-10-06 02:40 PM
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8. conservatism

is dedicated to the concentration of power and teaching is a means of distributing power so conservatives make bad teachers. Conservatism is easy to understand, simply view all issues in terms of power sharing, those who are in favor of decentralized power are liberal, those who are in favor of centralized power are conservative. Simple.

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agincourt

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Tue Jan-10-06 07:52 PM
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10. very good synopsis,

conservatism or at least the current version is anti-democratic, that's why it always slams big government, because our big government is a democracy.

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Demit

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Tue Jan-10-06 01:33 PM
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4. GREAT story! Lots to laugh at in that, including--

"Temple senior Logan Fisher, vice chairman of the school's College Republicans chapter, offered several vivid examples of what he considered classroom bias, alleging that a few professors vulgarly insulted President Bush in their lectures. ...Asked why he and the other students never filed a formal complaint, Fisher said they feared retribution and felt their grievance would be ignored. ..."

Haha! So they all ignored these special hearings set up just for them. Historic moment, indeed! They're finally shown up for the baseless whiners that they are. Now get back to your studies and stop wasting the taxpayers' money.

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No Exit

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Tue Jan-10-06 05:35 PM
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9. Temple senior Logan Fisher: get thee to Iraq!

If you really want to support Your President, whom you feel has been so maligned, enlist, and get to Iraq to join the glorious fight to spread freedom and democracy.

I'll be waiting. (tapping foot...)

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gratuitous

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Tue Jan-10-06 01:48 PM
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5. Gee, all hat and no cattle

I wonder where these dorks learned that?

The Pennsylvania legislature should send David Horowitz the bill for this colossal waste of time. Talking out your ass without facts is fine if all you're doing is fleecing the rubes to finance your outrage factory. But don't waste my tax dollars feeding your delusions, pal.

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underpants

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Tue Jan-10-06 01:49 PM
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6. "colossal waste of time and taxpayer money."

Spot on

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HuffleClaw

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Tue Jan-10-06 02:04 PM
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7. oh man that is just hilarious

not one complaint of bias in five years, and nobody shows up. what a waste. i bet the freepers will claim it was SABOTAGED by 'sinister leftist forces'

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