Abuse in Academia? ; 2008's Top 10 Assaults On Ideologic Freedom

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Did you hear the one about a college student threatened with expulsion for handing out copies of The Communist Manifesto? Ha! Of course you didn't. When was the last time a campus official violated his fealty to leftist orthodoxy? Now if you were told that the actual pamphlets inflicting rage at this institution happened to be Christian literature, not works by Marx, then the scenario of expulsion seems more likely, doesn't it? Unfortunately for Ryan Dozier, a 20-year-old student at Yuba College in California, our thought experiment is his reality. Yuba's president, Paul V. Mendoza, issued him an ultimatum: Discontinue handing out gospel booklets or face disciplinary action. The controversy began when Ryan's school required that students obtain a permit to participate in the "free speech zone." The permit, if granted, restricts evangelistic activity on campus - religious or ideological - to an hour each Tuesday and Thursday, and even authorizes the location where students are allowed to exhibit "free speech." It happens to be the school theater, in this case. Ryan, armed with First Amendment's speech and religious exercise clauses, decided he was going to distribute gospel booklets on his own terms, and for that he received this unseemly threat from the college president: "I will, at this point, issue you a written warning to not violate the Student Code of Conduct ... Should you violate my directive, you will face further discipline up to and including expulsion from the college" Ryan's saga is one that has defined schools these days: total obeisance to political correctness. In that vein, Young America's Foundation once again compiled the "best of the worst" academic abuses for 2008. These stories are usually not reported in the "drive-by" media, no doubt to shield school officials from explaining their radical curricula. The Yuba incident tops the list, although it had plenty of competition, as you'll see.

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Abuse in Academia? ; 2008's Top 10 Assaults On Ideologic Freedom

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