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Contact: Chad Swarthout
President, GW College Libertarians
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INDOCTRINATE U: Hard-hitting Documentary Film Screens at The George Washington University, in the Cloyd Heck Marvin Center 3rd Floor Amphitheater, on March 3, 2008.

Speech codes. Censorship. Sensitivity training. Enforced political conformity. Intolerance. Hostility to religion. Violations of freedom of speech and conscience. Kangaroo courts. We usually associate such things with the repressive regimes of North Korea, China, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union. But instead, this assault on free thought is taking place all over America--right now--on our nation's campuses.

Produced by On The Fence Films with the support of the Moving Picture Institute, award-winning filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney's documentary film Indoctrinate U reveals the ugly truths about academia that you won't see in glossy admissions brochures.

"When we think of college, we think of intellectual freedom. We imagine four years of exploring ideas through vigorous debate and critical thinking," Maloney said. "But the reality is very far from the ideal. What most of us don't know is that American college students surrender their rights to free thought and free speech the minute they set foot on campus."

At once a warning and a wake-up call, Indoctrinate U is stirring up controversy and sparking much-needed debate. By exposing the higher education's best-kept secrets, the film--which London's Daily Telegraph found to be "as slick and incisive as anything by Michael Moore"--is calling for the kind of change academics have long pretended they don't need to make.

"To the tune of tens of thousands of dollars a year, students are being robbed of their educations," Maloney said. "Higher education is systematically defrauding students, parents, and taxpayers. And many trustees, the people who are supposed to be overseeing this system, are letting it happen by failing to act."

Prominent professor Stanley Fish agrees; he recently used his influential New York Times blog to state that "So long as there are those who confuse advocacy with teaching, and so long as faculty colleagues and university administrators look the other way, the academy invites the criticism it receives in this documentary."

Now this acclaimed film is coming to The George Washington University for a special one-night-only campus screening. Indoctrinate U will screen at the Cloyd Heck Marvin Center 3rd Floor Amphitheater, 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC on Monday, March 3, 2008, at 9:00 PM.

The film was produced by a team headed by Stuart Browning, a software entrepreneur, blogger, and filmmaker; entertainment attorney Blaine Greenberg; and Thor Halvorssen, former CEO and executive director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). Frayda Levy, president of the Moving Picture Institute (MPI), served as associate producer.

MPI is a New York-based organization dedicated to promoting freedom through film. To learn more, visit MPI's website at thempi.org or contact Marina Lyaunzon at marina@thempi.org.