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Cal Poly and their foibles
Ah, I am sure that our Laura never thought she would be in an vote… but then… here she is! It is quite an honor to make it to become a FINALIST and everyone in the family is so proud. Her BLOG is really a good one… even if we are a little biased.
So, if you could take a moment and add your support by voting for Laura for Best Blog! It would be a kind thing to do.
Roger, Kristin, Karen and Karla ( the Laura support team)
Thanks to no small efforts in the past by organizations like FIRE, Cal Poly students, faculty and the larger community were given the rare opportunity to listen to an alternative point of view… Greg Davis author of “Islam What the West Needs to Know.”
Dr. Davis’s thesis is that Islam is more than just a ‘religion’. It is a geopolitical entity that threatens western civilization. His film is spiced with interviews and ‘exerpts’ from Islamic scripture that are quite challenging.
Here are a few pictures and links from the event at Cal Poly.
It was very sobering.
Roger Freberg
Unless you were at the Premier showing in Washington, D.C. or recieved a dvd preview as I did recently, you haven’t seen one of the more fascinating yet unsettling documentaries of our time.
I am speaking of “Indoctrinate U”.
This documentary visits universities all over the country looking at issues of free speech, faculty political composition and institutionalized hostility towards dissenting opinions.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is one of the featured ‘villains’ (my word) in Evan Malloney’s Documentary. We know a little bit about them ourselves from the top down… just Yahoo/Alta Vista or Google the name Steve Hinkle and check out the free speech site FIRE.
This is a movie every parent, alumna, donor or concerned citizen should see… especially before sending your child to college or choosing a college…. any college.
Roger Freberg
Change is very hard for institutions. They fear change. Change represents a threat. After the left started their march through the educational system in America in the 60’s, they closed the door behind them to keep ‘everyone else’ out.
This is the REAL reason why there are few conservatives, moderates or Republicans in Academia.
Cal Poly is not the worst, but it is typical of the problem of a ‘one party’ system in higher education. It is an example of “you think like us, or you’re against us.”
Although many universities (including Cal Poly) are continuing to maintain apparently illegal and draconian ‘speech codes’ ( see thefire.org), it’s really hard to argue against ‘free speech.’ Censorship invades even science where discussion of forbidden topics, such as the differences between men and women, are forbidden. As administrators must be saying, ‘stick to the code!’
So, I would like to congratulate the Cal Poly College Republicans for all that they are doing to make Cal Poly better by encouraging a more open discussion of ideas. Keep up the good fight.
Roger Freberg
Cal Poly was recently featured in the premier of Indoctrinate U at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
Here’s a small plug for Fire.Org. These are the wonderful guys & gals who run around the country defending students, faculty and an assortment of other nice folks from the whims and callousness — I say “capriciousness” — of university bureaucrats. They have offered up their own evaluations of universities across our great land. Do you know where your college stands? CHECK it out! Each analysis comes with links to media coverage.
Did you that in some universities you can not even discuss whether or not any differences exist between the sexes … even in an academic setting? If you dare, then the full force of the university can land on you?
Once some enterprising student takes them to court, these neanderthal regulations will fall, …. but until then, they will act as a law unto themselves. Sensoring speech is but the tip of the authoritarian iceberg in a lot of these schools… but it is their key stone and must be removed.
Roger Freberg
Kudos to the University of Tennessee