Students For Academic Freedom

David Horowitz to Speak at Tufts, Students to Introduce Academic Bill of Rights · 31 March 2004

March 31, 2004
Philipp Tsipman, President, 617.627.1898, philipp.tsipman@tufts.edu
Nicholas Boyd, Vice President, 203.645.1663, nicholas.boyd@tufts.edu
Kevin Johannsen, Speakers Director, 973.951.8129, kevin.johannsen@tufts.edu

David Horowitz to Speak at Tufts, Students to Introduce Academic Bill of Rights

Tufts Republicans and Tufts Friends of Israel are pleased to announce that activist and author David Horowitz will be speaking at Tufts on Thursday, April 1st at 8:00pm in Barnum Hall, room 008 on the topic of "Academic Bias And Intellectual Diversity: the Problem with America's Colleges and the Solution".

"You don't have to be at Tufts for too long before you notice one thing: there is not a whole lot of diversity here…. If you look more than skin-deep… you'll notice that this place resembles more closely a political party or an exclusive social club than a hotbed of free and independent inquiry and thought. Of the hundreds of lecturers at this university every year, David Horowitz… will be one of just a handful who is a conservative," wrote Philipp Tsipman, Tufts Republicans President in a March 31, 2004 op-ed in the Tufts Daily.

A prominent conservative activist, Horowitz recently helped found Students for Academic Freedom (StudentsForAcademicFreedom.org), an organization dedicated to ending the political abuse of the university and restoring integrity to the academic mission.

The organization promotes the adoption of an Academic Bill of Rights to secure student rights-freedom of speech, non-discrimination, due process, intellectual diversity- essential to creating a climate free of academic bias on college campuses. As reported in the February issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives and at universities and in legislatures across the country, creating a vigorous discussion about the state of the modern American university.

This Sunday, Students for Intellectual Diversity, an affiliate of the Tufts Republicans, will introduce a resolution on the Academic Bill of Rights, to be available at http://ase.tufts.edu/republicans/diversity/, with the Tufts student Senate. We urge the TCU Senate and the faculty Educational Policy Committee to support this proposal, and for President Larry Bacow to call together a taskforce that will address this issue on a university-wide level.

The Tufts Republicans club is a student organization that works to promote Republican and conservative ideas at Tufts University through education, activism, and political involvement.

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