Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

"The Code states that RIC "will not tolerate actions or attitudes that threaten the welfare of any of its members."

This is a disturbing and growing trend as schools start bringing in the voodoo scientists. It is now what you think, with what you actually do being irrelevant. Oh, brave new world!

And if you do something henious, but for a good ... See Morereason, that is no longer considered a bad thing. So you can slice and dice two men (Jason Vassell) but if you did it because they were racists, that is somehow OK....

This is a Pyrrhic victory. Those with the "wrong" views WILL STILL receive remedial re-education, be weeded out, or be denied admission altogether.

The only difference is that the university won't advertise that it is doing this. FIRE having declared victory and having gone home will mistake the Potemkin village for the reality on the ground, and thought will be less free than if the policy had remained in place.

Two things will happen. First, all of the stuff that FIRE was concerned about will still exist, it will just shift over to issues of "academic judgment" and "academic freedom." And second, students will loose their ability to defend themselves against charges that they fail to meet the ideological standards imposed.... See More

With a clear standard, a student could demonstrate having attended the required re-education seminars, having participated in the required activities, even having the required number of friends of the required categories vouching for him. With it instead being "academic judgments" the student is helpless and worse off than before!

Further, I would like to have programs advertise their bigotry. I would prefer to know who is going to hate me and not let me graduate rather than have them lie to me and learn it later when I have lots of time and money invested in a hopeless quest to graduate....

"... infantilizes college students and deprives them of the unique educational opportunities available at colleges."

THIS is what is at stake here - something far more than even free speech. There is a movement amongst faculty to define "academic freedom" as an absolute license and amongst administrators to see students as less than human. Not just infants, but a subhuman fungible renewable resource.

Hence what you wind up with are places like Planet UMass where college kids have LESS rights and freedoms than they had in high school. To the point where college kids are now going back to their high schools to party with the kids younger than they, not the other way around.... See More

College students are increasingly told what to think and how to think it -- and that is the root cause of the rioting on every campus I know of, something that no one really wants to talk about....