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Liberals are stupid.
How could a person learn anything from a liberal viewpoint?
Liberals want their supporters intellectually inept to insure
compliant support.
I am sure these are comments liberal students assume are fair and
appropriate to the classroom. Liberals would hold no ill will toward
a professor who makes the above statements. In fact, I would guess
that liberals would not feel it necessary to report such assertions
nor would they distress over a professor’s retribution if they
did report them.
Conservatives are stupid.
How could a person learn anything from a conservative viewpoint?
Conservatives want their supporters intellectually inept to insure
compliant support.
Does that change things? It shouldn’t, but apparently it does.
A political science professor asserted these comments in her classroom,
but I have learned recently that making these claims is perfectly
legitimate. Numerous students have shown abundant support for this
partisan bias and intolerant behavior to opposing ideologies.
Evidently, a competent professor would not provide a balanced
curriculum and would subject their students to offensive accusations
and sarcasm. This is what competent means, right? The definition is
obviously in debate right now.
Since September’s introduction of the Academic Bill of Rights,
the Auraria campus has been a diverse community of hot debate among
ABOR adversaries.
As mentioned in a Metropolitan Letter to the Editor, students who
complain about their professors are often academically incompetent.
They are the new “victims” of Gov. Owens and Sen. Andrews.
These compiled incidents of unjust treatment are nothing more than
“fabricated realities.”
It is inconceivable that a professor would ever dive into
a partisan diatribe and then reject opposing viewpoints, right? Precisely,
some would say.
For those of you who have closed your minds to the reality of unjust
treatment by professors due to ideological differences, I have a question:
Why turn away from what does exist? Not only does partisanship turn
a classroom into a mess hall, but it apparently turns the righteous
individuals who desire to protect students from indoctrination and
persecution into conservative, power-hungry politicians who have no
right to impose this legislation on higher-education faculty and students.
Are you that far left to oppose “conservative” legislation
because of partisanship? Come back to reality; this legislation is
not for increased conservative teachers. It is for a broad spectrum
of ideologies in the classroom, taught in a fair and balanced manner.
Students pay thousands of dollars for this extensive education and
our money, our demand, prevents professors from seeking other occupations.
Why is it such an unfathomable idea that we would want a fair representation
of the material? Do we not deserve that?
I will disclose this – a prime example of professor incompetence.
A prime example of why the Academic Bill of Rights is critical.
A Metro political science student, who consistently receives A’s
and B’s, periodically spoke up in a political science class
this semester and was repeatedly shot down for his opposing, conservative
viewpoints, as was his classmate.
His professor retaliates with: “No, you are flat-out wrong.
I’ve been in politics longer than you and I know what I’m
talking about.” She dismisses him. End of discussion. Wait.
She then adds that the class is not there to listen to a student indoctrinate
them. But, evidently, her indoctrination is readily welcome.
In regard to David Horowitz and the Academic Bill of Rights, this
professor addressed her classroom with this: “How could anyone
learn anything from a conservative thought? There’s no way you
could learn anything from a conservative teacher.”
This is when a pronounced liberal professor on campus quietly agreed
with Horowitz: “There is a bias on campus; David Horowitz is
right.”
Whether or not a professor is a staunch liberal or a steadfast conservative
does not qualify them to be an adequate professor. Diversity and the
ability to teach impartially, specifically in highly controversial
classes, are necessary to learn and debate all sides of an issue.
Nick Bahl wrote an invigorating article in a recent issue of The
Metropolitan regarding Dr. Meranto. He was condemned for his remarks.
Acknowledging unmerited conduct, especially from professors, can be
exceedingly difficult, so the commentaries were not only expected
but welcomed with curious eyes, as well should this be:
“Nick Bahl has a problem with her (Meranto), but I can tell
you right now that the problem he has with her is real,” says
a Metro political science student, who asked that he remain anonymous;
I cannot imagine why.
Dr. Meranto: I have not taken any of your classes nor will I; I am
not a political science major. But I have been witness to your lack
of concern for certain students, in addition to your blunt and intolerant
mannerisms. I have always assumed that one teaches because they have
a passion and drive to educate students, to broaden the minds of inquiring
people — not to discourage this process when opposing comments
are articulated in the classroom. Am I wrong?
I only hope that the Academic Bill of Rights encourages more professors
to support debate.
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