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Entries from October 29, 2006 - November 4, 2006
Free Speech and the American University
On Saturday, the Washington Post ran a story by Princeton University senior Asheesh Kapur Siddique, who claimed David Horowitz’s proposed "Academic Bill of Rights" [the text of which can be found here] amounts to nothing less than "Thought Police in the Lecture Hall," as the piece is titled. The ABOR, as Mr. Siddique calls it, "takes the form of student resolutions or legislative proposals claiming to protect the academic freedom of college students from ideological indoctrination by professors." This is obviously harmful to the learning process, says Mr. Siddique
