Quotas Can't Create Great Teachers · 05 January 2004
Dear Mr. Ewegen,
The Academic Bill of Rights explicitly forbids hiring faculty on the basis of political viewpoints. It is an anti-quota bill. Your own reporter Dave Curtin has accurately reported this fact, which you can check at our website www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org where the Bill of Rights is posted. You have a distinguished journalistic career. What prompts you to misrepresent the facts so egregiously in this instance?
The purpose of the Bill of Rights is to protect students from abuses by their professors, most particularly from professors using the classroom as a political soapbox. This is wrong when it is done by liberals and it is wrong when it is done by conservatives. It is an abuse recognized by the American Associaton of University Professors going back to 1915 (unfortunately, the AAUP has chosen to turn a blind eye towards the abuse in recent times). I am attaching an article I have written for the Chronicle of Higher Education on this subject, which discusses matters in your state. I urge you to reconsider what you have written -- as least as regards me and the Academic Bill of Rights I have proposed. We probably disagree on many matters of opinion. But this is a matter of fact.
Sincerely,
David Horowitz
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