Alumni group (UCLA) offers money to students to purge liberals

[Charlie Brown]

This is from yesterday, so I assume there was already a thread in LBN. Also, couldn't the professors who are "targetted" sue the group for harassment or defamation?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/01/18/professors.targeted.ap/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- An alumni group is offering students up to $100 per class to supply tapes and notes exposing professors who allegedly express extreme left-wing political views at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The year-old Bruin Alumni Association says it is concerned about professors who use lecture time to press positions against President Bush, the military and multinational corporations, among other things. Its Web site has a list of what it calls the college's 30 "most radical professors."

"We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of things," said the group's president and founder, Andrew Jones, a 2003 UCLA graduate and former chairman of the student Bruin Republicans.

[LisaM]

1. Well the first thing UCLA needs to do is sue them for use of the Bruin nam

since they are defaming it.

I went to a UCLA game once, in Pasadena. Frankly, the fans I met were all jerks. There were some USC people there and they were much much nicer.

[Joanne98]

2. I smell Lynne Cheney....

[libnnc]

3. yep, the closet case

is making her list and checking it twice.

[Imalittleteapot]

4. Sounds like a job for Alito's CAP

[aquart]

5. Typical slimy Republican tactics.

Ratfuckers never die.

[Igel]

6. It depends upon whether they're libeled or defamed.

There's no word on what 'targeted' actually means.

Does it mean that somebody keeps a file on them? No problem; I have files on my professors--class notes, my reactions to their lectures, stuff they've handed out, and in a couple of cases things they've done to other students. In student government it was fairly common to have files on faculty: there was an undergrad UCLA faculty guide, saying if they were good or bad, sympathetic or hard nosed.

That the materials are to be forwarded to a lawyer in furtherance of litigation against UCLA or some professor or department?

That they'll be in touch with some CA legislator about what goes on in the lecture halls and seminar rooms? I've known UCLA undergrads to do precisely this, with some professors.

That they'll argue with Carnesale about the limits of academic freedom using these professors' notes as fodder--something espoused wholeheartedly by UCLA faculty, but typically granted with scant measure to many of their students?

Selling copies of the professors' lectures or of their webpages would certainly violate copyright, assuming that they weren't acquired legitimately and in accordance with copyright regs. Giving them wouldn't. Selling the notes that the students take during lectures for such a purpose ... I simply dunno.

[Initech]

7. Couldnt the group get sued for this?

I mean quite frankly it seems like it's walking a fine line between harrassment and stalking.

[fishwax]

8. they've been trying to bully the academy the way

they bullied the press in the last couple of decades. Hopefully the academy will stand up to the bullies.

[upi402]

9. fellow citizens are reporting each other, like Nazis

It happened to a guy at a worksite I was at earlier this week.
The Sec. Serv. showed up and interrogated a guy after he joked about * to a delivery driver.
The rat-ass driver REPORTED a guy for jokingly B.S.ing!

[MN ChimpH8R]

10. Turn your friends in

Turn your teachers in - turn your parents in - turn your kids in.

Here are Bushbots/Reichwingers' real heroes. They simply adore the methods of these fellows.

Lavrenti Beria, head of Josef Stalin's NKVD:


Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuhrer SS: