Thursday, February 16, 2006
No liberal bias found on a conservative campus
From the Independent Weekly: NCSU students reject 'Academic Bill of Rights':
Conservative organizations attempting to crack down on what they say is liberal bias in the nation's universities lost a battle this month in N.C. State University's Student Senate.
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Bruck summed up his opposition by saying the Academic Bill of Rights is "not academic, certainly not a bill, and no one gets any rights.
From the Technician: Committee opts to kill academic freedom bill:
More than an hour of discussion and debate yielded few answers Wednesday night as members of the Student Senate's Public Affairs Committee tabled indefinitely a controversial proposal regarding academic freedoms.If Horowitz so easily lost at NCSU, he'll lose everywhere but Bob Jones University.
The resolution, entitled the Academic Bill of Rights, supports a bill in the N.C. General Assembly of the same name that focuses on ensuring "free inquiry and free speech within the academic community" in the UNC System.....