Targeted UCLA Prof Speaks Out
She slams the hypocrisy of a right-wing academic witch hunt. | story"I'd hate to be mistaken for a 'conservative,' " she says, "but the barbarians really are at the gates."LAT: “UCLA STUDENTS: Do you have a professor who just can’t stop talking about President Bush, about the war in Iraq, about the Republican Party, or any other ideological issue that has nothing to do with the class subject matter? It doesn’t matter whether this is a past class, or your class from this coming winter quarter. If you help expose the professor, we’ll pay you for your work.”
This grotesque offer appeared last week on a new website taking aim at members of the UCLA faculty. The site, created by the Bruin Alumni Assn., a group founded by 2003 UCLA graduate Andrew Jones, offers differing bounties for class notes, handouts and illicit recordings of lectures ($100 for all three). | story
“I’d hate to be mistaken for a ‘conservative,’ ” she says, “but the barbarians really are at the gates.”
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