Spy on your Prof for $100...

[Touring Mars]

Is your prof a bit of a lefty? Then call 555-LEFTY (or visit www.uclaprofs.com) and claim your free 'Bust-a-Prof' kit and receive $100 American...

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[Kent]

I'm a student and I know about this sort of thing.

I think it's important to expose the bias that DOES exist at the college/university level.

I've personally seen it and I've been quietly dealing with it for years (I should have just graduated by now ).

Plus, I don't remember the exact number, but in the last two elections there were statistics printed about the way "profs" voted and there certainly is a bias.

No one can legitimately deny that college and university professors have biases and usually the bias is a "leftist" bias.

So for that matter, I think it is a good thing for professors to have to face up to their "private rantings."

They always think they can say whatever they want to these kids and indoctrinate them however they wish.
Once the truth of their lectures is revealed they are often admonished and reprimanded.

At larger universities this sort of behavior is often ignored and the truth never gets out to those parents footing the bill.

So I'm glad to see the exposure these teachers are getting.
It's about time someone exposed the "secret" world of bias found at colleges and universities across the country.

Left or Right, teachers should not be able to push a bias on students.

Btw, I went to a university last semester where a teacher of "poli-sci" was fired for doing exactly what this article was about (and that teacher leaned to the left too).

 

[Kylehnat]

That's why I like engineering. No opinions necessary. I'd like to see my prof put a liberal spin on transfer functions.

 

[240Z]

Anyone read "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut? It explains how this type of thing can go wrong. Great book.

 

[emad]

so, what if the prof is a right winged nut? Outspoken, or I should say, Loud Mouthed individuals on both extremes are quite annoying.

 

[VIPFREAK]

I don't need $100 or to spy to know my former prof was an idiot. Everyone new it, if you went to any online website pertaining to the major or my school everyone would rag on him openly under a Annonmous (sp?) SN. Everytime we had a teacher survey day at the end of the school year everyone would fail him. The only reason he's still there is because he was tenored (sp?) but that changed by now probably. Especially since the school called my house and did a survey on him of his performance.

 

[niky]

so, what if the prof is a right winged nut? Outspoken, or I should say, Loud Mouthed individuals on both extremes are quite annoying.

Quite true!

I remember one professor in college (remember, I live out in the only former US colony in Asia) who would go on and on about the evils of America... and Americans in general.

I just sat in the back of the class and cringed.

That said, after having read the article, it does come off as a witch-hunt. Just because you're against the Iraqi war means you're against the "war on terror"? Please. It's the 50's all over again and we're going a-commie hunting.

But it would be nice to get some of those guys to shut up and just teach.

 

[VeilsideR33sub]

$100 and there's AIDS in the Anthropology Dept of UCLA ! - Ye and your mommas a dingo !

 

[HondaRacer]

Bribing kids with cash just to expose what everyone should know already: most educators are liberals. Whether you agree with their views or not, just deal with it. Expecting a teacher to be a Bush loving right-wing nutjob is the same as expecting the owner of a multimillion dollar cooperation to be a tree-hugging liberal weiner.

Because college isn't mandatory, professors can say whatever they want. As a student, you have the choice whether or not to go to your classes.

I'm not saying I agree with students being indoctrinated one way or the other, but censoring professors' opinions (especially through a cash bribe) seems like the complete wrong way to go about fixing it.

 

[Slicks]

Anyone read "Hocus Pocus" by Kurt Vonnegut? It explains how this type of thing can go wrong. Great book.

I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut. It's horrible. Like ADD with time-travel.

Back on topic, it's good that these prof's are being exposed, but students shouldn't be paid to do so. They should do it out of wanting a better teacher or to learn more productively.

 

[240Z]

I'm reading Slaughterhouse Five by Vonnegut. It's horrible.
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[Slicks]

What? I don't care about the fact that it's anti-war, I don't think the writing's bad, but it's too incredibly jumpy to be enjoyed!

You liked it?

 

[240Z]

I did like it, but not as much as some of his other books. I guess I'm just a kind of "jumpy" person. But, to each his own I guess.
Vonnegut said in an interview (I just read it in Wampetters, Foma, and Granfalloons) that the science fiction parts were supposed to be a light-hearted break from the rest of the book. So that'd explain why he decided to write it that way, I guess.

 

[Slicks]

Makes sense.

I'm actually reading it for English 12, so you just gave me a useful bit of info. to use! Thanks!

 

[xcsti]

What? I don't care about the fact that it's anti-war, I don't think the writing's bad, but it's too incredibly jumpy to be enjoyed!

You liked it?

Ever stop to think that there is meaning in the jumpyness and senselessness of the book?