Exposing Liberal Profs

The LA Times reported yesterday about a group of UCLA alumni who are keeping tabs on the University's most liberal professors. The group, the Bruin Alumni Association, created a website called UCLA Profs.com, where students can go and report the actions of their radical teachers.

Personally, I think this is a great idea. Not only because kids are paid $100 to rat out their professors, but it lets all professors know that students aren't going to sit there and listen to off-topic rants. Students aren't paying thousands of dollars in tuition to hear the slanted beliefs a specific teacher may hold, and yet sadly, this is happening all over the country. Groups like BAA are encouraging students to stand up for their beliefs and to remind professors that they are to teach from a non-biased, objective perspective.

This semester, the College Republicans at Seton Hill won't be sitting idly by as this happens on our campus. We're not against freedom of speech, and I would argue that we are in fact more tolerant of various ideas than our leftist colleagues, but rather we are students who just want to learn. We don't need some prof starting a class by telling us that "He's liberal, he disagrees with the war, and there's a math test next Tuesday."

Our first major goal of the semester is to hold a presentation this February on Liberalism and a Liberal Arts education. There will be a planning meeting for this presentation on Tuesday, January 24th for all who are interested.