Battleangel

Yes indeed, how about restoring “an atmosphere of respectful political discourse on campus.” In America of course that means pompous grandstanding, intimidations, and spying. Is the Bruin Alumni Association the forerunner of the new totalitarian US century?

Boing Boing - A radical right-wing group has compiled a black-list of progressive UCLA professors and it is offering a bounty of $100 to students who record their lectures; the group intends to use these lectures “expose” the professors as “radicals.” The Bruin Alumni Association posted the offer of the bounty to its website; its finances reportedly come primarily from a $22,000 gift from to its founder, Andrew Jones. The move has spooked many of the group’s advisors, three of whom have resigned in disgust. One of the resigners is hardly a stranger to extremist politics: former Republican congressman James Rogan was one of the ringleaders of the Clinton impeachment circus, but even he doesn’t have the stomach for this.

And for all the “progressives” in the US, I would invite you to Europe to hear what people in the academia really think and feel about the US. No amount of “bounty” can get you out of that.