Battlepanda: Bounty for smear-bait

Battlepanda

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Bounty for smear-bait

(HT Body and Soul)
Wow. This is so despicable and desperate at the same time, it's almost amusing.
A fledgling alumni group headed by a former campus Republican leader is offering students payments of up to $100 per class to provide information on instructors who are "abusive, one-sided or off-topic" in advocating political ideologies.

The year-old Bruin Alumni Assn. says its "Exposing UCLA's Radical Professors" initiative takes aim at faculty "actively proselytizing their extreme views in the classroom, whether or not the commentary is relevant to the class topic." Although the group says it is concerned about radical professors of any political stripe, it has named an initial "Dirty 30" of teachers it identifies with left-wing or liberal causes.

Inciting the young'uns to shop their teachers...where have I seen that tactic before? Oh yeah.
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