We are still looking for a peaceful solution. Bill
PS: Say, even though I'm not at UCLA, d you suppose the above comment would get me an honourary mention on their shameful list? All professors in the United States should be very, very afraid of what is happening to politics there. Dark shades of 1930s Berlin... BH -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of watershed remote Sent: Fri 20/01/2006 19:12 To: 'GEP-Ed'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ecopolitics; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: tape record prof to show s/he is too radical and win money Dear all: FYI below -- it was filed under "education" (insert sarcasm here). http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/19/ucla.radicals.reut/index.html All the best, BILL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr. William James Smith, Jr. Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Adjunct Assistant Professor The University of Iowa, Department of Geography Expose 'radical' UCLA teacher, get $100 Thursday, January 19, 2006; Posted: 11:13 p.m. EST (04:13 GMT) <javascript:CNN_openPopup('/services/overture/cl/frameset.exclude.html','620x430','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,width=620,height=430')> LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- An alumni group dedicated to "exposing the most radical professors" at the University of California at Los Angeles is offering to pay students $100 to record classroom lectures of suspect faculty. The Web site of the Bruin Alumni Association also includes a "Dirty Thirty" list of professors considered by the group to be the most extreme left-wing members of the UCLA faculty, as well as profiles on their political activities and writings. UCLA Chancellor Albert Carnesale on Thursday denounced the campaign as "reprehensible," and school officials warned that selling or distributing recordings of classroom lectures without an instructor's consent violates university policy. News of the campaign prompted former Republican congressman James Rogan, who helped lead impeachment proceedings against former President Bill Clinton in the U.S. House of Representatives, to resign from the group's advisory board. "I am uncomfortable to say the least with this tactic," Rogan, now a lawyer in private practice in California, said in an e-mail resignation made public by the Los Angeles Times. "It places students in jeopardy of violating myriad regulations and laws." At least two other members of the group's advisory board, which consists of more than 20 individuals, also have quit over the group's efforts to have students record their professors. The group, which is not affiliated with UCLA or its official alumni association, is the creation of Andrew Jones, a 2003 UCLA graduate who said he runs the organization mostly on his own with $22,000 in private donations. Jones told Reuters that he is out to "restore an atmosphere of respectful political discourse on campus" and says his efforts are aimed at academics who proselytize students from either side of the ideological spectrum, conservative or liberal. "We are concerned solely with indoctrination, one-sided presentation of ideological controversies and unprofessional classroom behavior," Jones said on his Web site. Jones' site describes his campaign as "dedicated to exposing UCLA's most radical professors" and his list of the university's "worst of the worst" singles out only professors he says hold left-wing views. Jones said he would accept recordings only from students whose professors consented in writing to have their lectures taped. And students would be paid $100 only if they furnished complete recordings of every class session, as well as detailed lecture notes and all other teaching materials from the class. Jones, who also is offering to pay $50 for only notes and materials, said so far one student has signed up to participate and two others have expressed interest. UCLA spokesman Phil Hampton said the university planned to send Jones a letter warning him that faculty hold copyrights to all their course materials and that his campaign encouraged students to violate school policy. Copyright 2006 Reuters <http://www.cnn.com/interactive_legal.html#Reuters>. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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