Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Choke!
This isn't cool at all.
Among the poor jokes told is the one that instructors with strong political biases that appear in their classes welcome debate. Another is that things like the end-of-semester evaluation forms and the tenure track will keep these professors in check. This one is particularly funny because they explain the precise mechanism by which these things cannot possibly keep professors in check (i.e. tenure).
Just as the bill offends the academic system, it is condescending to students. It turns capable adults into helpless victims by assuming that "right-wing" students can't hold their own. Anyone who has seen the vocal Berkeley College Republicans knows right-wing students are more than capable of doing so. If anything, these students should be insulted. We certainly are.
I'm glad to see that the Daily Cal agrees with Debra Saunders, though I can't help but think that maybe they weren't trying to. But unfortunately, while they support Saunders's viewpoint, their argument doesn't really work for their own. After all, you can tell a fellow student to fuck off. Not so much, for professors
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