Indoctrination Displaces Education

Indoctrination Displaces Education
Part Two

Socialist, Marxist and Communist Indoctrination

School kids are being prepared for a socialist world government (under the United Nations), to which most public school teachers would not object. The kids are being taught that one culture is just as good as another. They are being taught that it isn't fair for the United States to be the world's only superpower. They are being taught that the U.S. uses up "more than its share" of the world's natural resources.

Indoctrination of our youth: School teachers, at all grades, often use their classroom for environmental, anti-war, anti-capitalist and anti-parent propaganda. Some get their students to write letters to political figures condemning public policy the teacher doesn't like.

Some Wicked Friends of Public Schools. The goal of the Nazis was to compel all children in Germany to only go to state schools in which there would be no religious instruction, no instructors except for Nazi-approved instructors, and no textbooks except those prepared by the Nazis. … The goal of the Nazis was not to make sure that German children learned to read and write — religious schools had done an excellent job in of teaching children those skills. What the Nazis wanted was a chance to indoctrinate children and, importantly, to keep children completely separated from all moral and philosophical systems which competed with Nazism.

L'Eggo My Lego. Some Seattle school children are being told to be skeptical of private property rights. This lesson is being taught by banning Legos. A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children's Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of "Rethinking Schools" magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil. According to the article, the students had been building an elaborate "Legotown," but it was accidentally demolished. The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore "the inequities of private ownership."

'You Squander Wealth That's Mine'. The Go Project NYC is a nonprofit organization in Lower Manhattan that is dedicated to providing academic assistance and social services to low-income, underperforming elementary school children in the area. When a teacher's aide expressed concern that a new summer program would include a political message, he was abruptly let go from the program.

Professor Who Spied For Cuba Gets Prison. A public university professor who spent decades spying for a terrorist nation while collecting his state paycheck was sentenced to five years in prison for passing on illicit intelligence to an enemy nation. The teacher often conducted his espionage for the Republic of Cuba, which has long appeared on the State Department's list of terrorist nations, during regular taxpayer-funded work hours. His wife, a counselor at the same university, assisted him and was sentenced to three years in prison.

Conservatives push to counter liberal professors. A 2005 study by American and Canadian professors indicated that 72 percent of those teaching at U.S. colleges and universities identified themselves as liberal. Only 15 percent called themselves conservative. Several students said professors' liberal views tend to spill out in classrooms in subtle and overt ways. It can trigger lively debates but also intimidate some students. Blake Rebling, 19, president of the UA College Republicans, said he typically doesn't challenge his liberal professors' opinions because they control his grades. "I don't want to risk going to law school over that," the political science major said.

Conservatives in the Academy: An Endangered Species. Lyndon Johnson once observed that "If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking." Looking at the state of American universities today, perhaps we should extend President Johnson's logic: If a thousand faculty members agree on everything, are any of them really thinking? The question is not just rhetorical, because if recent surveys of the professoriate are to be believed, there is a virtual unanimity of general political outlook among the faculty. This conformity of opinion has degraded intellectual discourse and impoverished intellectual debate on some of society's most pressing questions from immigration to abortion to the war in Iraq.

From the high school frontlines in the culture. Across the nation, public school students are being indoctrinated in "health" classes and other venues to treat their families with skepticism and to regard traditional mores as "dysfunctional." Liberals have achieved what the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci only dreamed about: They have completed "the long march through the institutions" and now control the commanding heights of the culture.

As a Republican, I'm on the Fringe. Are university faculties biased toward the left? And is this diminishing universities' role in American public life? Conservatives have been saying so since William F. Buckley Jr. wrote "God and Man at Yale" — in 1951. But lately criticism is coming from others — making universities face some hard questions.

Explosive facts. Each year about this time, some parents write in to ask for suggestions of things for their children to read during the summer, in order to counteract the steady diet of liberal-left indoctrination they have been getting in schools and colleges.

It's 1984 at the University of Delaware. In a tersely worded statement issued on November 1st, University of Delaware President Patrick Harker brought an end to an Orwellian reeducation program run through the Office of Residence Life and affecting thousands of students living in residence halls at the University of Delaware. Published accounts of the residence life education program and publicly available documents show it to be a systemic model of leftist and politically correct indoctrination, foisted on vulnerable students by a publicly-funded university.

Are academic elites communists? While academic leftists, and I'd include their media allies, are not communists, they are anti-anti-communists. In other words, they have contempt for right-wingers, conservatives or libertarians who are anti-communists. Why? Academic leftists, and their media allies, are in agreement with many of the stated goals of communism, such as equal distribution of wealth, income equality and other goals spelled out in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Leftist elites love the ideas of communism so much that they are either blind to, or tolerant of, its many shortcomings.

Academedia Bias: Too often we treat academic and media bias separately when their relationship is much more symbiotic. After all, not only are media elites trained in academia but they frequently return to school to teach and "give something back" to the educational system that spawned them.

In Australia...
Conservative students suffer from 'left bias'. [Dr. Mark Lopez] said he had no doubt that students who presented conservative arguments or interpretations were at a disadvantage because teachers were more likely to be critical of their work if they felt the student's argument was "politically incorrect". His concerns are likely to spark a culture wars debate not seen since 2006 when then education minister Julie Bishop criticised "left-wing ideologues in state governments", describing some subjects as "straight from Chairman Mao".

Indoctrination starts when teachers are the students. Beware the words "social justice" and "dispositions" when used by schools of education and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). These apparently harmless terms lay the groundwork for politicizing the training of teachers and giving the ed schools an excuse to eliminate conservatives from their programs. The news this week is that NCATE is backing down a bit from its use of "dispositions" and "social justice" while denying the political use of these words and calling its new policy a "clarification."

Don't think outside the college box. Academia has become a solid bastion of the Left, as demonstrated by two articles in the latest issue of the scholarly journal Current Review. One article presents a survey of academic social scientists that reports that 79.6 percent of 1,208 respondents said they voted mostly Democratic over the last 10 years, with 9.3 percent voting Republican.

A New Low for Higher Education. A funny thing happened on the way to academic freedom. Some liberal college people don't want it. If you veer away from liberal orthodoxy, you are not welcomed at commencement.

YAF brings 'leftist' campus bias to light — again. A campus watchdog group complains that very few conservative speakers were invited to deliver commencement addresses this year at American colleges and universities. But that's nothing new, notes the group.

Majoring in … Hate? "Hate studies," an academic program being developed on campuses nationwide is, we're told, an intellectual response to racism. Raymond Reyes, director of diversity at Gonzaga University, is trying to establish an entire major in Hate Studies.

Official Apologizes For Saying Bush Should Be Shot Between Eyes. State Comptroller Alan Hevesi publicly apologized Thursday [6/1/2006] for a "beyond dumb" remark about a fellow Democrat putting "a bullet between the president's eyes." Hevesi called a mea culpa press conference hours after putting his foot in his mouth at the Queens College commencement.

Conservative speakers are unwelcome on commencement day. Though resistant to conservative, Republican and even some moderate speakers, a few highly political campuses seem ready to accept even ax murderers as commencement speakers, provided that they speak from the left. The late "Tookie" Williams gave two commencement speeches. He is ineligible for more because he was executed last December for the slaughter of many innocents in two robberies. Mumia Abu-Jamal has given many commencement speeches, including five in one year, on tape of course, since he sits on death row for the cold-blooded execution of a cop.

Jodie Foster unhinged: I am so relieved to discover that movie star Jodie Foster thinks that America is in worse shape than it was four years ago and that the graduating class of the University of Pennsylvania needs to march out and do something about it, as in voting for Democrats.

Shedding the intellectual straitjacket: Academic freedom has often become an opportunity for radical professors to proselytize students. Now the discussion is turning to academic freedom for students: the opportunity to hear a variety of viewpoints and present their own, without faculty intimidation.

Burned Out in Birmingham: Liberal Education and America. Once upon a time, liberal arts colleges acted in loco parentis, actually caring for and about their students in ways of which their parents could approve. What's more, the whole notion of liberal education supported that undertaking, for it was understood to prepare students for a life befitting a free human being, a life of responsible self-government, which, it went without saying, was a life of virtuous self-restraint.

Restructuring Education For the Global Village: Academic education has been replaced with indoctrination programs. The process is designed to change the attitude, values and beliefs of the children — away from traditional American values of God and Country. Away from the family; away from the American work ethic; away from competition.

The politics of disparity: Class warriors incessantly complain of the expanding gap between "rich" and "poor," by which they mean the rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor. In fact, all boats rise with the tide — the poor are getting richer, too. Unfortunately, too many Americans believe the lie because of its constant repetition in the media and in our public schools.

Dangerous Professors. Ward Churchill, Cornel West … we all know the names of some of the radical professors in academia today. But in his new book The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America, truth-teller David Horowitz paints a portrait of some of higher-ed's worst.

Panel says Churchill should be fired. Ward Churchill, the professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," should be fired because of "repeated and deliberate" infractions of scholarship rules, a University of Colorado committee said today [6/13/2006].

Robinson: CU probably will prevail if Churchill files lawsuit. Churchill's attorney likens his client to Galileo. More apt comparisons are to erstwhile journalist Jayson Blair or disgraced young novelist Kaavya Viswanathan … except for the fact that those two plagiarists owned up to what they did. Not so Ward Churchill.

Indoctrination at the University of Colorado: In the fields of sociology and anthropology, for example, the ratio of leftwing professors to conservatives was now approximately thirty-to-one. These two fields themselves had been largely transformed into exercises in leftwing ideology and bore little resemblance to scholarly inquiry. In these fields particularly, but in many others that still bore some resemblance to traditional academic pursuits there was a disturbing absence in university courses of assigned texts that did not validate or amplify with the professor's ideological point of view.

An anti-communist reading list: Hardly a day goes by without parents asking me for advice on how to protect their children from the harmful secular and socialist influences they will encounter in college. Today, I present a reading list, which should help any high school student understand the reality of socialism long before setting foot on a college campus.

Communism for kids: Any parent with a child in a public school has likely discovered that our education system is little more than a vehicle through which liberals indoctrinate our children with socialist ideology. If this sounds like a radical assertion, I assure you it is not. In fact, examples abound indicating just how accurate it is.

Judicial supremacists back school district over parental control. When former first lady and U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. proclaimed that it takes a village to raise a child, many people didn't realize that she was enunciating liberal dogma that the government should raise and control children. This concept fell on fertile soil when it reached activist judges eager to be anointed as elders of the child-raising village.

The outrages taxpayers and parents pay for: Repeated surveys report that Democratic professors outnumber Republican professors by about 10 to 1, but that ratio doesn't begin to reveal the outrageous leftist culture to which college students are subjected. Many professors are Marxists or other varieties of radicals who hate the United States.

Are Liberals The Worst Bigots of All? At Seattle's Bellevue Community College, for example, an unnamed teacher changed the wording of a practice math quiz question to read: "Condoleezza holds a watermelon just over the edge of the roof of the 300-foot Federal Building, and tosses it up with a velocity of 20 feet per second."

'Folk Marxism' is not exactly Peter, Paul and Mary. Marxists ain't what they used to be. Once upon a time they would climb on the nearest orange crate and yell, "Workers of the world unite!" Now they don't even return calls. I phoned the top Marxist at the University of Cincinnati to ask why he still believes in the most discredited political faith of the 20th century. No response. I wanted to ask why anyone still teaches and preaches Marxism 20 years after it was hauled away to the ash heap of history.

Essential Economics Instruction. Too many kids, particularly those in college, simply share an unquestioning view, similar to the one espoused by Ralph Nader, believing that regulations and excessive government spending come at no real cost to them. The presence of die-hard liberals in academia is another hindrance to eliciting the truth as to how the world really works.

The liberal art of public education: What does a cool ten grand per student get you nowadays in a public school? If you happen to have a kid at Poplar Tree Elementary School in Chantilly, Va., there's a good chance it will help to buy her a lesson in the virtues of communism.

The Left's last paradise. One study of 1,000 professors finds that Democrats outnumber Republicans at least seven to one in the humanities and social sciences. That imbalance, more than double what it was three decades ago, is intensifying because younger professors are more uniformly liberal than the older cohort that is retiring. Another study, of voter registrations records, including those of professors in engineering and the hard sciences, found nine Democrats for every Republican at Berkeley and Stanford. Among younger professors, there were 183 Democrats, six Republicans.

College Hires Leftist Terrorist Pardoned by Clinton. Several faculty members at Hamilton College are protesting the school's decision to hire a visiting professor convicted of possessing explosives as a former leftist radical in the 1980s.

District sorry for homeschooler-terrorist link. A school district that participated in a terrorist-attack response drill apologized for using a scenario in which children were threated by a fictitious radical group that believes everyone should be homeschooled. The made-up group, called Wackos Against Schools and Education, was invented by the local government emergency services director.

Why Johnny's sociology professor is a Marxist. Marxism is an emotional disorder, not a political philosophy. Wealthy people sometimes accept Marxism, not because it has ever worked, but because they feel guilty about having more than other people. But, more often, it is accepted by those with less who are angry, usually because they lack the talent and drive to succeed in a capitalist society.

Why liberals rule academia and media. A chapter on journalism [in "The Secular Revolution," edited by University of North Carolina professor Christian Smith] shows how "key persons within journalism (especially publishers and editors, and also journalism professionalizers from the ranks of the universities and the active press) actively sought to minimize and ultimately to undermine traditional religion."

Liberals Dominate Spring Commencement Exercises. A survey released today [6/17/2004] by Young America's Foundation indicates students across the nation overwhelmingly heard from liberal guest speakers during commencement ceremonies.

My Life With The Academic Left: Unfortunately, since former 60s protesters have now become the associate and full professors of the University establishment, they perform as block captains for correct thinking. They keep a sharp ear out for any grumbles or dissent. Those whom Horowitz calls the "neo-communists" are pervasive within the university's structure. Their brand of political philosophy is so all-encompassing that bringing up politics in class is a given.

NEA Votes on Flood of NBIs: NEA delegates considered 109 New Business Items (NBIs) during the union's annual convention July 2-5. For example, among the NBIs that passed, NBI 8 directs the NEA to "review the research on the environmental impact of chalk dust on children, teachers and support personnel in the classroom," noting that "breathing chalk dust may be associated with respiratory illnesses."

More about The Teachers' Unions

Academy Under Siege: Does the mindset of the New World Order run the universities? Interviews with college students, a University professor, and others reveal a shocking number of incidents of classroom indoctrination. (Videotape, $15.00)

New Poll shows the Existence of Political Bias on Ivy League Faculties: David Horowitz, President of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture today [1/9/2002] released a poll taken on the beliefs and attitudes of Ivy League professors. Horowitz stated, "For all the Ivy League's talk of diversity, it is painfully evident from this survey that there is no real diversity when it comes to the political attitudes and social values of Ivy League professors. Not only is there an alarming uniformity among liberal arts professors at our elite universities, but this uniformity bears the clear stamp of the Democratic Party and the political left."

"World Anthem" Strikes Discord: The dust is still settling in Fort Collins, Colorado, where Poudre High School's senior class council decided to play the World Anthem rather than the national anthem at its May 24 graduation.

Book:
The Professors: Bestselling author David Horowitz reveals a shocking and perverse culture of academics who are poisoning the minds of today's college students.

Book review:
Lefty Profs Exposed. [David] Horowitz's 101 profiles remain mostly free of editorializing. Instead, the author lets the professors do the talking, and they proceed to condemn themselves with their own words, actions, and dubious scholarship.

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
— Theodore Roosevelt

Darwinism and humanism

Against The Grain: 'There are strong indications of intelligent design'. Current scientific philosophy is to rule out completely the possibility that a creator was involved. But there is no scientific justification for making such a sweeping assumption. Science should always be open-minded. Newton, Kelvin, Faraday and Pascal had no problem with a creator and with design. There is no reason why a modern scientist cannot take the same position as these eminent scientists.

Bill banning intelligent design draws national notice. Religious conservatives around the country are up in arms over a Wisconsin bill that would ban the teaching of intelligent design as science in the state's public schools.

Editorial Comment: The State of Wisconsin is effectively outlawing Christianity, and establishing humanism as its state religion, by prohibiting the discussion of Biblical creation in public schools.

Thoughts on public education: Eleven parents have sued the [Dover, Pennsylvania] school board and the school district, claiming that Intelligent Design is not science but religion and hence constitutionally off-limits in public schools. The consensus seems to be that this case will wind up in the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet accounts of this issue are missing the real problem. The crisis today is not defining religion or science but education itself.

Ben Stein's 'Expelled': A Little Background. Darwin's attempt to explain the origins of all the magnificent species in the living world in terms of the struggle for survival (easily the dumbest idea ever taken seriously by science, in my opinion) is rapidly losing support in the scientific community, as the true dimensions of the complexity of life are revealed by scientific research, especially at the microscopic level. The majority still give lip-service to Darwinism, but only because all the alternative natural explanations which have been proposed are even more far-fetched.

Ben Stein Provokes the Liberal Wrath. Stein's critics fail to effectively refute anything in "Expelled"; they just use epithets to ridicule it and hope they can make it go away. However, it won't go away; even Scientific American, which labeled the movie "shameful," concedes that it cannot be ignored. The movie is about how scientists who dare to criticize Darwinism or discuss the contrary theory called intelligent design are expelled, fired, denied tenure, blacklisted, and bitterly denounced. Academic freedom doesn't extend to this issue.

The War on Common Sense: A Darwinian worldview now dominates the classroom. When was the last time the word "teleology" was used in a university classroom in a non-pejorative sense? Teleology, the study of the evidence of order or design in nature, was once a staple in classic Western education.

New front opens on evolution wars. A battle over science education could soon spill into the courts in Louisiana, where looming legislation would allow teachers to bring up scientific criticisms of evolution, global warming and other hot-button topics. The state House approved the bill Wednesday [6/11/2008] on a 94-3 vote. Because the Senate already approved a near-identical measure, supporters expect the upper chamber to pass this bill also.

Academia's Assault on Intelligent Design. What is the state of academic freedom when well qualified candidates are rejected simply because they see God's fingerprints on the cosmos? Isn't the Academy supposed to be a venue for diverse views? Aren't universities supposed to foster an atmosphere that allows for robust discussion and freedom of thought?

Why Atheism is Not Logically Sound: Proof of a conscious Creator is readily available. The simplest proof (yet one that no atheist has ever been able to counter effectively) is that a universe of this size and magnitude does not somehow build itself, just as a set of encyclopedias doesn't write itself or form randomly from the spill of a massive inkblot. The atheist, on the other hand, needs to build a plausible case for this irrational scenario.

School Board Abandons Evolution Textbook Stickers. Four years after a Georgia school board placed stickers on its high school science books stating that evolution is "a theory, not a fact," the district agreed on Tuesday [12/19/2006] to abandon the ensuing legal battle with liberal groups.

Unintelligent designs. Culture, including the culture of education, now opposes what it once promoted or at least tolerated. The secular left, which resists censorship in all its forms when it comes to sex, library books and assigned materials that teach the "evils" of capitalism and "evil America," is happy to censor any belief that can be tagged "religious."

District in evolution debate to pay $1 million in legal fees. The Dover Area School District, whose board members lost a battle to have intelligent design taught in the classroom last December, must pay $1 million in attorney's fees.

Education Leader Decries Court-Sanctioned Censorship of Intelligent Design. A Christian educators group is expressing dismay over a recent court ruling its members feel censors Pennsylvania public school science teachers. Last week a federal judge ruled that "intelligent design" theory cannot be mentioned in biology classes in the Dover Area School District of Pennsylvania.

[So much for a diversity of ideas, free speech, and letting students make up their own minds.]

Conformity enforcers: At the elite "top tier" schools (the most highly rated Ph.D.-granting institutions), 87 percent are liberal. Conservative faculty members are mostly relegated to "lower tier" institutions. Fifty-one percent of faculty members say they rarely or never attend religious services, while 31 percent do. Sixty-seven percent believe homosexuality is acceptable. And a whopping 84 percent support legal abortion.

The Latest Problems with the "Man Evolved From Apes" Thesis. There's been a virtual Inquisition by Darwinian fundamentalists against anyone who dares challenge The Book — Darwin's infamous 1859 "Origin of the Species." No longer about following the bread crumbs of inquiry in pursuit of truth, Big Science is now all about enforcing doctrinaire dogmatism.

Control of the Future Through Control of the Schools. Humanists know that the future of our country rests with our children. Therefore, in order to control the future of our country, they must control the minds of our children. And the easiest way to control our children is to control the schools. Radical left-wing writers … incessantly rail against parental "interference" in schools, because, as they openly acknowledge, "The Left can't survive politically without a public school system to spread leftist attitudes."

Darwinism – Discredited by Real Scientists. Sir Ernest Chain, co-holder of the 1945 Nobel Prize for developing penicillin, stated bluntly: "To postulate that the development and survival of the fittest is entirely a consequence of chance mutations seems to me a hypothesis based on no evidence and irreconcilable with the facts. These classical evolutionary theories are a gross over-simplification of an immensely complex and intricate mass of facts, and it amazes me that they are swallowed so uncritically and readily, and for such a long time, by so many scientists without a murmur of protest."

Darwinists top the censorship food chain. The most censored speech in the United States today is not flag-burning, pornography or the press. The worst censors are those who prohibit classroom criticism of the theory of evolution. Chinese scholar observed, "In China we can criticize Darwin but not the government. In America you can criticize the government but not Darwin."

Designing an intelligent debate: A Christian friend of mine insists that Darwinism is now taught as "doctrine" rather than theory, that "scientists get hysterical in a hurry if you question any part of the theory, like Christian theologians protecting the doctrine of the Virgin Birth." Intolerance and intransigence, he says, are now the province of the Darwinians, who regard insult as legitimate argument.

Thomas Paine Criticizes the Current Public School Science Curriculum: In a speech he delivered in Paris on January 16, 1797, Thomas Paine harshly criticized what the French were then teaching in their science classes — especially the philosophy they were using. Interestingly, that same science philosophy of which Thomas Paine was so critical is identical to that used in our public schools today.

See also Religious Studies Exit the Schools

Rules that are applied only to conservatives

More and more schools and universities have "speech codes" and other rules which are only applied to conservatives. Here are a few examples.

'You don't have the right to speak'. A student senate leader at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has told pro-life display supporters they have no right to express their opinion on the volatile issue of abortion. "It's not your responsibility," Roderick King, a sophomore at the school and member of its student senate, shouted at activists who had assembled a display of white crosses in the campus lawn — with university permission.

Wanted: A culture of self-defense. There's no polite way or time to say it: American colleges and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregated dorms, politically correct academic departments and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions — while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

Campus Leftists and Their Dirty Tricks: Leftist administrators at DePaul University are threatening to cancel a speech by Chris Simcox if the conservatives on campus don't come up with $2,500 to pay for 20 private security officers. Simcox, an advocate for protecting America's borders from unlawful entry, presides over the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

Catholic school censors pro-life speaker. Administrators at Mercy High School, a Catholic school located in Farmington Hills, Mich., abruptly canceled the upcoming appearance of best-selling author Dan Flynn, alleging the content of his speech was "inappropriate." The lecture, scheduled for February 12 and sponsored by Young America's Foundation, was an after school event and attendance was voluntary. Flynn's topic, entitled "Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood," exposes the real foundations of the abortion-rights movement — the historical fact that Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was an anti-Catholic bigot who advocated concentration camps and forced sterilization.

Conservatives need not apply. Since the National Women's Studies Association Conference is hosting a panel on how to deal with conservative young women on college campuses, such as the Network of enlightened Women (NeW), you would think that they would have invited a conservative young woman from NeW. One would think this indeed. But time and again, we must remember that the feminists aren't always rational.

Maryland's diversity police trample basic freedoms. For evidence of multicultural suppression in action, Maryland legislators need look no further than Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where administrators first looked the other way in 2006 when hundreds of copies of the Carrolton Record, a conservative student newspaper, were stolen from the library, and then joined in the theft by banning distribution of the paper elsewhere on campus. The situation is equally depressing at the University of Maryland, College Park, where advocates of non-approved viewpoints are corralled into so-called "free speech zones." Apparently the College Park commissars haven?t heard that the First Amendment makes the entire country a free speech zone.

Report Finds Rampant Censorship at American Colleges and Universities. A report released today [12/6/2006] by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education reveals that burdensome restrictions on speech are commonplace at America's colleges and universities. The report, entitled "Spotlight on Speech Codes 2006: The State of Free Speech on Our Nation's Campuses," surveyed more than 330 schools and found that an overwhelming majority of them explicitly prohibit speech that, outside the borders of campus, is protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Victory for Free Speech: Clemson University Abandons 'Free Speech Zone' Policy. Clemson University has vowed to review its "free speech zone" policy and, until a new policy is instituted, has opened its entire campus to free speech. Clemson has also cleared the Clemson Conservatives student organization of its charges for violating the "free speech zone" policy.

Remember "Ebonics?" At Cornell, a student newspaper published an imaginary course description rendered in Ebonics, part of which reads, "Da white man be evil an he tryin to keep da brotherman down." You can guess what happened next. Two hundred copies of the paper were burned, the administration denounced the newspaper's writers for "race-baiting and stereotyping," while some indignant students even called for a "speech code."

Can I Just Have My Bag of Chips? Exactly how "tolerance" devolved into coddling those who choose to take offense for the slightest of reasons is a question for another day (although decades of experience demonstrates that on-campus tolerance is more frequently understood as the right of "victims" to air grievances than of heterogeneous speakers to be heard). Another question is how and why we've allowed identity politics to constrict public spaces.

College Gives Credit for Obama Campaign Volunteers, None for McCain. An idea popular in Europe, the "gap year" is a year taken off from studies between high school and the first year of college. That year is supposedly spent traveling or doing volunteer work. To regulate this, the college gives credit to the students for approved "gap year" activities, one of which is volunteering for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. No mention of allowing the same benefit for a volunteer to John McCain's campaign is made, naturally.

Speech Code of the Month: University of Maine — Presque Isle. The University of Maine — Presque Isle's (UMPI's) Residence Hall Guide contains a harassment policy that states: "Even if the harassment is unintentional (e.g., an off-hand comment or joke) it still occurs and will not be tolerated." As a public university, UMPI cannot prohibit speech that is protected by the First Amendment.

Leftist Brown Shirts Shut Down Horowitz Speech at Emory. On Wednesday evening [10/24/2007], the Emory University Chapter of the College Republicans hosted acclaimed author and activist David Horowitz for a lecture on radical Islam as part of Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. From the beginning of Horowitz's speech, rowdy protesters continually interrupted him and less than half an hour into the event, the crowd became so disruptive that police were called in and Horowitz had to be escorted off stage.

Campus' Christian group left hanging. Student leaders at the University of Wisconsin-Superior have a thorny question this fall. Is the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's requirement that its student officers support Christian doctrines common sense or discrimination? At stake is the fellowship's status as a student organization, its eligibility for student funds and the possibility of a lawsuit.

[Notice that it is suddenly a problem even though the organization has been on this campus for 40 years.]

Georgetown bars ministries from campus. Georgetown University has banned outside Protestant ministries from holding on-campus events and using the school's name, prompting group leaders to question whether the prestigious Catholic school is restricting religious choice.

The Fascists Among Us: You don't have to be famous to feel the left's wrath. On more than one occasion conservative student newspapers have been burned, and even one of my editors related a story to me about being shouted down by colleagues during a previous career in academia. Lest you think this is unusual, errant blips on the radar screen, know that this is standard practice on university campuses today.

Besieged with P.C. from the Left and Right. Donald Downs, who teaches political science and law, and is also author of a new book, Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus, concludes: "The last thing American campuses need is censorship from the right piling onto the preexisting censorship from the left. Universities will not regain the public trust that they have squandered until they stand up and defend the principles of free speech and academic freedom for everyone, regardless of their politics."

Shhh! Free speech crackdown on campus. In a Latin American politics class, professor Donald Hindley, 74, who's taught at Brandeis for nearly 50 years, used a word he's used many times — "wetback" — to explain the nastiness aimed at Mexican immigrants who entered the United States over the Rio Grande. The student(s) complained. Anonymously. The administration launched an investigation into his "discriminatory" remarks, never telling Hindley what those remarks were. In one statement provost Mary Kraus praised the "courage" of the anonymous student(s) "to speak up against discrimination." She also said three students suffered "significant emotional trauma" as a result of hearing the remarks.

The Editor wonders...
One word is enough to inflict trauma?

'Hate-speak' at school draws scrutiny. A Tucson High Magnet School student will tell state lawmakers next week that she was forced by school officials to listen to a pro-immigrant speech. Senior Mon-yee Fung, 17, voluntarily attended an assembly where co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union Dolores Huerta spoke, but could not leave after Huerta began saying "Republicans hate Latinos." "I wanted to listen to what they had to say, but all they had to say was hate speak," said Fung, head of the school's Teenage Republicans Club.

Speech codes and intolerant universities. Penn State has an incredibly Orwellian policy banning "acts of intolerance" — one of which Surra himself would have committed had he made his "waste of time" comment on campus. The good representative's alma mater defines such acts (which, it says, "will not be tolerated") as "an attitude, feeling or belief in furtherance of which an individual acts to intimidate, threaten or show contempt for other individuals or groups based on characteristics such as political belief."

Conservative Books Equate to 'Sexual Harassment'. A "sexual harassment" investigation is ongoing at an Ohio college after the school's librarian suggested that students read a few books from a conservative perspective. According to the Alliance Defense Fund … a librarian at Ohio State University at Mansfield has been slapped with a "sexual harassment" charge after he suggested that freshmen read four best-selling conservative books.

Student under fire for yelling: 'Remember Chappaquiddick!' A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday [2/23/2006].

Squelching speech at UNC. Want to know how fast a modern American university can go from championing open debate to squelching it? Just ask Jillian Bandes. The University of North Carolina junior wrote a column supporting racial profiling for her campus paper, the Daily Tar Heel. That was Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon, she was fired.

CSU students not ready to make nice — and they don't have to. The 417,000 students at California State University's 28 campuses are expected to be civil to one another, the university says in its policy manual. It sounds innocuous — but a federal magistrate says it's an unconstitutional restriction on speech when the policy is used to investigate or discipline students, such as the College Republicans whose members stomped on two flags bearing the name of Allah during an anti-terrorism rally at San Francisco State last year.

Carleton students bar anti-abortion groups. Carleton University's student council has voted to deny funding to campus anti-abortion groups. A carefully worded policy amendment, passed on Tuesday [12/5/2006] night during a council meeting, also bars student groups with anti-choice mandates from council-managed spaces.

Le Moyne Sued After Expelling Grad Student Who Expressed Conservative Views: Last fall, [2004] former graduate student Scott McConnell was dismissed from Le Moyne College in Syracuse for writing a paper opposing multicultural education and advocating corporal punishment in elementary schools.

Student Expelled for His Conservative Views Wins Suit, Returns Determined: An army veteran and graduate student at Le Moyne College in upstate New York who was expelled from his degree program because of his conservative philosophy of education is back in the classroom and speaking out.

False promises of academic freedom. If you want to get a real glimpse of the thought-tyranny of the academic Left, you should look at the case of Scott McConnell, who was recently expelled from Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y., because his personal beliefs didn't fit within the school's indoctrination grid.

DePaul Investigates Mock Bake Sale for Possible 'Harassment'. A DePaul University bake sale, mocking affirmative action, has exposed the student who organized the sale to an investigation on the grounds that he discriminated against and harassed other students.

Providence speech patrol: Against the ethos of Roger Williams, Rhode Island College tries to silence a student.

Coulter Skelter: Unsuccessful and belligerent. Those are the two words that can be used to describe an attempt by radical leftists to disrupt a speech by Ann Coulter at the University of Texas in Austin [May, 2005].

Polly gaffes: As the Polly awards have aptly demonstrated for the last eight years, most colleges grant unchecked rein to liberal ideas — no matter how offensive. Conservative speech, on the other hand, engenders outrage and disciplinary action.

Forget Free Speech, Liberals Don't Tolerate Campus Conservatives. America's colleges and universities are anything but free speech zones. Contrary to their mantra of universal tolerance, Stalinist professors and administrators see intellectual diversity as a disease. Unpopular viewpoints, like a belief in absolute truth or the Republican Party, are actively discouraged.

America's One-Sided Campus Media: For the past sixteen months I have been a weekly opinion columnist for UCLA's newspaper, the Daily Bruin, and have seen exactly how media bias works. … From the high and mighty editor to the yeoman reporter, the newsroom is the liberals' private party. The conservatives in the newsroom are not welcome — and it's made certain they understand that.

Free Speech — For Some. Liberal bias on campus manifests itself in many ways, but what's probably the most dangerous is that students can spend years in school without hearing from a conservative.

Professor on trial for allowing free speech!. "[Rhode Island College] is actually trying a professor for following the First Amendment," said David French, president of FIRE, which wrote to the college on behalf of Church. "If professor Church had punished this person for making 'offensive' comments, she would have violated that person's right to free speech. Professor Church is on trial for the offense of obeying the law."

Conservative Students are the Real Revolutionaries. If you wanted to prove that American universities are places where free speech and open discussion prevail, you probably wouldn't visit the University of Texas at Austin.

PC Ethics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Some of UNLV's professors are so unethical and irrational that they are willing to personally go after you and attempt to destroy your reputation whenever they see you have disagreed with them.

Targeting campus speech codes: Hallelujah! Someone in authority is finally fighting back against political correctness. The Bush Administration has warned campus thought-control bullies that it is monitoring their imperious tactics.

Free Speech Curbs Attacked at Another University: Most of the nation's college students have already abandoned their campuses for the summer, but the battle for student free speech continues — highlighted by the recent lawsuit against Texas Tech University for restricting its campus "free speech area" to a small gazebo.

On Campus, Politics Determine Who Is Subject To Punishment. In today's world of academia, universities dole out their own unique form of justice. Sadly, this new approach to crime and punishment is often unfair, almost always biased and completely unaccountable. It makes no difference whether you are the victim or the accused; it doesn't even matter whether you're guilty or innocent, because most current university officials enforce the rules on campus based solely on their own personal prejudices.

Left-Wing Campus Thought Police Harass Dissenters: Arizona State University's "political correctness" enforcers may be on the verge of wrecking the life of a conservative student who bucks their orthodoxy. It is further evidence that academia's enemies of free speech have dropped all pretense at fairness.

Politically Correct Death Threats at Georgia Tech. [Ruth] Malhotra can't help believing that a university that claims to be more committed to "civility" than any other school in the country and routinely initiates proceedings against students who commit such offenses as smoking in the dorms would certainly have immediately sprung heroically into action if she had been a black, Hispanic, lesbian, or almost any other woman receiving such messages. But she is a conservative activist and almost by definition a thorn in Georgia Tech's side.

Campus Leftists Attack Ad on Black Reparations: An ad criticizing reparations for descendants of slaves is creating an uproar at colleges across the country. The controversy illustrates the anti-choice intolerance of left-wing activists and the speed of most student "journalists" to censor politically incorrect thought.

Conservatism is an Endangered Species on America's Campuses: A pro-family leader says America's colleges and universities are becoming increasingly hostile to conservative students. Bob Knight is director of the Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America. "Campuses have become a hotbed of radicalism, and it's of the type that is very disturbing because it's not merely liberal, not merely left-wing -- it's totalitarian," Knight says. "It says 'we will enforce certain beliefs, and anyone who doesn't agree with us will be shoved off campus.'"

A Dozen Affronts Against Free Speech: If censorship of conservative ideas is a frequent occurrence at Berkeley, how commonplace is it at other universities around the country?

Conservatives Equal Racists at MLA: "We've never had free speech in this country," professed Patricia L. Keeton of Ramapo College. This 'so why start now' characterized the tone of the "When Hate Groups Target Campus Newspapers" panel at the Modern Language Association's (MLA) annual convention in New Orleans.

College GOP slammed for "hate flyers": Poster advertising pro-America rally features photo of bin Laden.

Gun control indoctrination

Schools are erasing firearms from American history, instead of making the distinction between lawful and unlawful use of guns. School kids are being taught that all gun ownership is bad, but then the kids get mixed signals when they see that all cops carry guns. Many people have suggested that schools would be much better off teaching "Gun Ed" than "Sex Ed".

Gun-Toting High School Senior Plans to Appeal Ban on His Picture. A federal judge has barred a New Hampshire high school senior from posing with a shotgun in his yearbook photo.

School board bans "gun" from spelling tests: Action taken after 1st-grader's parents complain to officials.

College Admins: If You Favor Second Amendment Rights, You Must Be Crazy. A Minnesota college student was suspended and ordered to undergo "mental health evaluation" for his response to campuswide e-mails from school officials concerning the Virginia Tech massacre.

Teachers, Guns, and Zero-Tolerance Tyranny: Teachers are the forgotten casualties of the education establishment's absolutist war on guns.

Mountaineer May Carry His Black Powder Rifle: "What nearly happened at [the University of] Wisconsin," [Alan] Gottlieb said in a press release, "is symptomatic of a broader anti-gun hysteria that runs rampant throughout liberal academia."

Have Gun, Won't Travel. The Gun-Free School Zones Act … made it a federal crime punishable by five years in prison to possess a gun within 1,000 feet of a school. … According to an analysis by gun control scholar Alan Korwin, the gun-free zones created by the statute cover so much of Phoenix and Cleveland that they are impossible for people traveling in those cities to avoid. The upshot, he says, is that "virtually all public travel with firearms is now a violation of law."

Arizona bill would let guns onto campuses. Two Mesa lawmakers are drawing up legislation to give teachers — and some students — a chance to carry firearms on campus. The proposals by Sen. Karen Johnson and Rep. Russell Pearce would allow anyone who has obtained a state permit to carry a concealed firearm to bring it onto public-school campuses, something now a crime under state law. It also would overrule similar policies at community colleges and state universities.

Why You Should Own a Gun: The murders on the Virginia Tech campus, the worst such rampage in our history, might have been mitigated if just one member of the faculty or a student had the means to return fire.

Gun control isn't the answer. So far, not many prominent Americans have tried to use the college rampage as an argument for gun control. One reason is that we are in the midst of a presidential race in which leading Democratic candidates are aware that endorsing gun control can cost them votes.

Unarmed And Dangerous. Five years ago, armed college students subdued a gunman embarking on a college killing spree. Last year, Virginia Tech applauded the fact that its students couldn't do the same. … One wonders if Cho Seung-Hui would have even walked on campus with a gun if he knew his victims were able to defend themselves.

Guns, Politics and the Law: Over the past decade and a half, evidence of another sort has been accumulating. Violent-crime rates peaked in 1991, according to the Justice Department, and have fallen steeply since. Over the same period, gun-control laws in many states have been relaxed. Correlation does not equal causation, but it does make it difficult to argue that greater legal access to guns drives up levels of violent crime.

More about Gun Control Issues
More anti-gun bias in schools is demonstrated on the Zero Tolerance page.

Anti-American and anti-war indoctrination

There was a time when the schools quite naturally taught kids to have pride in America, because it is the best place in the world to live, a world leader, a superpower, and the primary force standing between freedom and communism. Today, many teachers are pessimistic, defeatist socialists and radical anti-war leftists, and the kids are being taught to blame the United States for many of the world's problems.

Also please note the section about Pro-Islam indoctrination at Yale University.

Obama's Academia Nuts: How exactly do former terrorists get to teach at America's universities? Unfortunately, Obama's friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are just a few of the inmates running those asylums.

War Heroes Turned Away from Public School. These men and women represent the best in self-discipline, honor, and personal responsibility, not to mention the virtue of self-sacrifice for the benefit of others. Yet, at the last minute the principal of the high school caved to political pressure from parents and outsiders who don't support the war, and cancelled the appearance.

Update: School officials manufacture an ex post facto cover story.
Forest Lake district canceled veterans' visit over 'student safety'. Concern for "student safety" was a primary reason that the Forest Lake School District canceled a visit by touring military veterans to its high school, Superintendent Lynn Steenblock said Thursday [3/27/2008] in a prepared statement. However, police said such concerns weren't relayed to them. "At no time was student safety mentioned to the chief of police or to our assigned liaison officer at the high school," police Sgt. Greg Weiss said.

Field Trip To Hell. A Manhattan high school's openly illegal class trip to Cuba showed more than just brazen disregard for the U.S. ban on tourism to Cuba. It amounted to aiding and abetting a malevolent regime. That needs scrutiny.

Unrepentant 60s bomber now teaches our teachers. William Ayers, the unrepentant former SDS Weather Underground bomber of the 1960s, was recently elected by the American Education Research Association (AERA) as vice president and head of its division of curriculum studies. Apparently, AERA members have no qualms about selecting Ayers, a man who to this day remains dedicated to destroying America, to lead one of their organization's most important divisions. Perhaps they think Ayers is merely a "professor of English," as Democratic presidential contender and Ayers friend Sen. Barack Obama would have us believe. Or maybe AERA members don't know Ayers simply transferred his revolutionary fervor from the streets to the classroom where he indoctrinates our nation's teachers.

Cold War on Campus: The latest survey on academic bias has sent academics into their usual state of denial despite evidence of same that frequently stares them right in the face. "Taken together, 40 percent of the Americans in the survey said professors often use their classrooms as political platforms," Robin Wilson of the Chronicle of Higher Education reported on April 4th of a Gallup poll.

The War on Common Sense: With Darwin as king of the classroom and conscience but a mute passerby, the Left hurls endless invectives at the United States, denouncing both its greatness and that of its Founders, and almost nobody says a word. Some want to say something but they are too embarrassed, while others do not even know they are allowed to speak.

Second Annual 'America's Most Dangerous College Courses'. It's been two years since I've begun investigating insipid, scary and yes, downright dangerous college courses — sometimes funded by tax dollars — and unfortunately, little has changed. Arrogant professors, protected by tenure and faint-hearted administrators, use their classrooms to spread their twisted views of America and its allies.

Portland's Anti-War Professor. Hello world, meet Portland State University (PSU) professor Amanda Byron. She doesn't like violence in any form and believes war is wrong. In fact, she hates it so much that she dedicates her life to the study of "conflict resolution." … Doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside? Well, if it doesn't, your common sense must be in full gear, as the peaches and cream notion of "conflict resolution" has no practical, real-world application on issues that actually matter.

Antiwar speakers on campus are lecturers, not students, this time. Dan Lowenstein passionately opposes the war in Iraq and recently helped stage an antiwar teach-in at UC San Francisco. "We must listen to our conscience and speak out," he told the hundreds of people who had gathered. Lowenstein is no student organizer; he's a noted professor and vice chairman of the department of neurology at UCSF.

Abusive liberal professors. Some universities have long been considered bastions of liberalism, but associate professor Paul Grosswiler at the University of Maine, Orono, may have taken that reputation to new heights. We learned a few weeks ago that, according to sophomore Rebekah McDade, Mr. Grosswiler offered extra credit to students in his history of mass communications class if they burned the American Flag or the Constitution, or if they got themselves arrested while defending free speech.

Pacifists versus peace: One of the many failings of our educational system is that it sends out into the world people who cannot tell rhetoric from reality. They have learned no systematic way to analyze ideas, derive their implications and test those implications against hard facts. "Peace" movements are among those who take advantage of this widespread inability to see beyond rhetoric to realities. Few people even seem interested in the actual track record of so-called "peace" movements — that is, whether such movements actually produce peace or war.

College Credit for Protesting? Program proponents claim it will enhance the students' academic experience. Program opponents, however, recognize the program for what it is — an attempt by liberals to control both the thoughts of students through the political bias of so many professors and the actions of students through rewarding them with credit for participation in specific community activities.

Columbia Hosts a Thug. Having been summarily denied his wish for an officially sanctioned visit to Ground Zero, Iranian despot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is headed for Columbia University — where he's set to be welcomed with open arms. That Columbia would want to offer a platform to such a bloody handed villain — one who, to this day, presides over a country that's directly abetting the murder of U.S. soldiers in Iraq — says much about the state of Ivy League education.

Columbia University dean: We'd invite Adolf Hitler to speak. A Columbia University dean said yesterday [9/22/2007] the Ivy League school would gladly welcome mass murderer Adolf Hitler to speak on campus. "If he were willing to engage in a debate and a discussion, to be challenged by Columbia students and faculty, we would certainly invite him," John Coatsworth, dean of the School of International and Public Affairs, told Fox News yesterday. Coatsworth spoke two days before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slated to give a lecture on campus.

Anti-America Americans: It is easy to hate the American people and government. All that's needed is to take seriously the opinions about their criminal conduct written by some U.S. university professors. They are the best source of anti-Americanism known.

An Ill-Bred Professor, And A Bad Situation. The first thing I noticed was that the Chairman's office door was adorned with a large Anti-Iraq War poster. I have made a personal campaign against such political statements on professorial offices. Students go to theste offices for counseling. Such partisan statements create a wall between the professor and the student who it is his or her professional responsibility to help.

Public school teachers gone wild: Last month, the unhinged government school teacher of the month award went to Jay Bennish — a left-wing, anti-war screecher/teacher who used his high school world geography class in the Denver area as a Bush-bashing bully pulpit. This month, the leading nominee is one Steve White.

Anti-antis up the ante. Today, there are terrorists, anti-terrorists and anti-anti-terrorists. It would be unfair to call the anti-antis pro-terrorist. But it is those fighting terrorists — those waging war against Militant Islamist ideologies — that anti-antis criticize most harshly. Anti-antis are clearly dominant on America's campuses.

Spoiled brat politics: Part II. The idea that what I want overrides what you want has increasingly become part of our thinking, our policies and even our laws. There is literally a federal case before the Supreme Court over the fact many colleges and universities refuse to allow military recruiters on campus. Why? Because, as the academics will tell you, they oppose the military, either in general or because they think the military discriminate against homosexuals or whatever other reasons they have.

The hypocrisy of Harvard and others. The hypocrisy of the nation's most powerful colleges and universities was shown this week in the U.S. Supreme Court. The colleges want to shield their law students from military recruiters while still receiving federal money, including Pentagon research grants. Harvard alone has more than $400 million in defense contracts.

America the greedy and cruel. The school movie. What a glorious thing it was to a student eager to avoid real work. The lights were dimmed, and nothing was expected from us except to gaze at a screen. (Later, we understood that lazy teachers liked movies for the same reason.) But at least the films we saw conveyed good information, unlike so much of the leftist drivel that is marketed to our kids today.

The cult of non-achievement. Rather than accept any professional responsibility for the worsening conditions in many inner-city schools and the failure of low-income minority students to thrive, many researchers and educators have displaced their frustration and anger onto anything associated with the American mainstream: its political and economic institutions, its values, its literature, its very language.

Arab Student Pushed to see Therapist by Professor After Submitting Pro-American Essay. Foothill College Political-Science Professor Joseph Woolcock tried to intimidate student Ahmad Al-Qloushi into seeing a therapist because of a Pro-American essay he wrote in Woolcock's class. The thesis of Al-Qloushi's essay is that the US constitution was a very progressive document, which has contributed to freedom beyond America's borders.

Denver Schools Clarify Policy After Outcry Over Mexican Flag. Criticism over a Mexican flag hung in a classroom has led school officials to create a policy that says the display of foreign banners must be temporary and related to what is being taught in class.

Father irked by son's anti-Bush lesson. A Fitzgerald High School parent said he plans to complain to the school board about what he says was one-sided political material introduced in class by his son's American studies teacher. Marc Trail said the teacher, Gregory Queen, distributed to his students copies of a Web site page that contained political satire aimed against President George W. Bush.

Ousted American Professor Declares Support for Hezbollah in Lebanon. An ousted American political science professor who believes some Jews have exploited the legacy of the Holocaust recently expressed his support for the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Norman Finkelstein, who resigned from DePaul University last fall amid criticism of his opinions on the Holocaust, told Lebanese television that his view of Hezbollah is "rarely heard" in the United States.

ACLJ Letter to the National Education Association: The purpose of this letter is to formally object to your recommendations to parents and teachers regarding the anniversary of the terrorist attacks of one year ago included on your "Remember September 11th" website. In particular, we take issue with your advice for parents and teachers: "Do not suggest any group is responsible." The problem with this advice is that there is a group responsible, and we know who that group is - an organization of radical Islamic terrorists called al-Qaeda. By advising teachers not to suggest that any group is responsible, you both shortchange our children's education and risk undermining our nation's effort to eradicate terrorists and prevent further terrorist attacks.

Citrus College Suspends Instructor Accused of Giving Credit for Antiwar Letters. Citrus College has put a part-time instructor on administrative leave after students said she had offered them extra credit for writing and sending letters to President Bush that opposed going to war with Iraq. Officials of the community college, near Los Angeles, said a dean had met with students in the class, who said they "were clear in their understanding that they would only receive credit if they wrote 'protest' letters."

Artificial stupidity: A recent news story about a teacher who assigned her students to write anti-war letters may have seemed like just an isolated episode, but teachers using students for their own little ego trips is by no means uncommon. Perhaps the worst recent example was a teacher who unleashed her venom on the children of military personnel who had gone off to fight in Iraq.

Terrorist Professors in the United States: That three accused terrorists passed without suspicion as genuine Middle East studies scholars points to the crisis in this academic discipline. This academic field is already criticized for providing refuge to what might be called intellectual terrorists – scholars known for their dishonesty. Now we learn it apparently has been harboring the real thing.

Anti-War Group Urging Youth to Be "Militant" Like Malcolm X. The anti-war effort has the blessing of some public schools. "Our whole board of education wholeheartedly supports the anti-war effort," said Eric Mar, vice president of the San Francisco Board of Education.

American Academics Who Hate America: Visit an American university and you'll often enter a topsy-turvy world in which professors consider the United States (not Iraq) the problem and oil (not nukes) the issue.

Phony Victims of Freedom in Academia: One of the most shameless frauds in academia today is the claim that a new "McCarthyism" is threatening academic freedom. According to this new cry of victimhood, conservative groups are "drawing up enemy lists" of professors who are opposed to the current war against terrorism.

2001 "Campus Follies" Highlights Liberal Bias in Higher Education: The nation's largest conservative outreach organization to America's college youth says there is a "complete disconnect between the American people ... and what the university infrastructure, particularly professors and administrators believed following the September 11th attacks."

P.C. College Condemns War on Terror: A liberal - and we do mean liberal - arts college in Massachusetts has won the dubious distinction of being the first to officially condemn America's war against terrorism.

More about Pacifists and Anti-American Protests, primarily off-campus.
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