I attended the David Horowitz speech on Tuesday, September 30, 2003, and I was curious to see how this would be reported in @Metro.

The feature story titled ‘David Horowitz speaks to crowd of 350’ begins by stating: “The man behind the controversial ‘Academic Bill of Rights’ that calls for more Republican professors…”

Republican professors?

Where on earth did the writer of this story get the idea that the Academic Bill of Rights calls for more Republican professors? Mr. Horowitz clearly dispelled this incorrect notion in his speech. Copies of the Academic Bill of Rights were distributed before the speech began and if you read them you will see that the term Republican professors does not appear anywhere in the document. If you don’t have a copy, you can find the text at:

<http://studentsforacademicfreedom.org>.

The opening sentence in the article demonstrates either a Democrat bias, or that the writer did not understand the context of the speech and the Academic Bill of Rights literature.

@Metro is usually a good little newsletter for disseminating information about the college. Please stick to reporting news and leave the editorializing out.

Thank you for your time,

Leandro Martinez