Brownshirts in L.A. want to bully UCLA professors into spewing their propaganda in class.
This is already well diaried by MissLaura with big rec's, but if you've missed it, a front group calling itself the "Bruin Alumni Assn." offers UCLA students up to $100 each to spy on professors and report comments deemed ideologically offensive. The group issued a "hit list" of 30 professors it deems ideologically suspect.
Here's how UCLA professors -- even the 30 hit-listed ones -- can rub the noses of the "Bruin Alumni Assn." in their own fascist feces and strike a blow for truth, justice and academic freedom:
Tomorrow, when they report to class, they should begin their lecture thus:
"Today, I will actively proselytize an extreme view in the classroom, whether or not my commentary is relevant to the class topic.
"By making this assertion, I have officially qualified you to earn $100 for no more than collecting detailed notes on my lectures and recording them.
"As U.S. copyright law forbids you to record my lectures for sale, and U.S. contract law prohibits one contracting party from requiring another to engage in an unlawful act, take close notes, turn them in and collect your full $100.
"Then, consider donating half of your loot to the Chronicle of Higher Education to promote the concept of academic freedom in America, the extreme view I hope to have proselytized today."
Then, get on with your lecture.
Uh, anyone got a better charity? The Chronicle is awfully old fart, sure miss Lingua Franca.