CU's College Democrats oppose hiring of right-wing prof

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CU leaders last year announced plans to create a $9 million endowment to fund the Visiting Chair in Conservative Thought and Policy on the Boulder campus, which long has been derided as a liberal bastion.

So far, CU only has raised $575,000 in private funds toward that goal, campus officials said Monday.

But regardless of how long it may take the university to fully fund the conservative post, College Democrats say they’re not going to wait to launch a campaign against it.

“The entire concept of a Visiting Chair in Conservative Thought and Policy politicizes academics in a way that is contrary to the university’s mission,” senior Jesse Jensen, president of the College Democrats, said Monday. “By endowing a chair in one specific political ideology, we are not promoting intellectual diversity — we are tokenizing a point of view that should be presented in all classes on political thought.”

From the Daily Camera

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/jan/12/colorado-democrats-right-wing-professor/

[Doctor_J]

1. Hopefully this will spark a nationwide movement

The wingers have been trampling all over free speech and free thought on campuses for decades. It's about fucking time someone complained about forcing right-wing ideology on an entire student body.

Go, Jesse!