Julie with a B

Thursday, March 03, 2005
 
Accusations of communist indoctrination
Attack on local Junior College choreographed by national right wing group.

In a bizarre twist, there is local furor over attacks on 12 junior college instructors. Last Thursday red stars and letters were posted to the office doors of some instructors.
"The stars, which unnerved some instructors, were accompanied by a copy of a state Education Code section prohibiting the teaching of communism with the 'intent to indoctrinate' students." (From yesterday's article)

This led to a meeting yesterday of the Academic Senate, the faculty's representative body, and confrontation between the senate and two members of the Republicans Club.


From today's Press Democrat:
"McPherson and Carter, president and secretary, respectively, of the SRJC Republicans, said their point was not a personal attack on instructors but a protest against what they claim is a left-leaning bias in the classroom.

"I don't pay to be taught what to think," said McPherson, a political science major.

English instructor Marco Giordano, a Senate member, rejected the students' contention they had sought to start a dialogue, calling that claim "disingenuous and discreditable."

"This is a grave attack," Giordano said, on the character of his colleagues.

Joel Rudinow, philosophy department chairman, said the Republican students' mission had "more to do with publicity and doctrinal cleansing" than with course evaluation

It should be noted that these students are also members of "Students for Academic Freedom", a well funded national group run by David Horowitz who penned the book Hating Whitey and other Progressive Causes

- posted by JulieB @ 8:05 AM
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