To the Editor:
We all should support any institution that promotes the idea of
diversity and equality. Unsurprisingly, most individuals would
agree with that statement; applying that statement to academics,
though, would make most people cringe. I find it highly amusing
that so many professors, fellow students and individuals in the
community are willing to make Colorado State and other locations of
higher learning their personal soapbox. More than amusing, though,
I find their actions to be hypocritical and highly destructive to
our education.
David Horowitz’s (advocate of the Academic Bill of Rights for
students) mission, and for that matter the mission that should be
of every university and professor, is to encourage a respectable
level of critical thinking. That critical thinking I’ve been taught
over the last four years, I’m ashamed to say, is to be critical of
conservative views and reject them outright – they’re obviously
wrong.
No, they are not so obviously wrong; no opinion is ever
obviously wrong. But, the mission of Students for Academic Freedom
is not about protecting any one school of thought specifically;
it’s about protecting all of them, left to right. We should all
stand in support of this movement developing on our college campus
and others throughout our country. We stand to lose nothing if we
do, but if we don’t we can fail to balance the tables that have
been thrown askew by something that I think is painfully obvious –
educational discrimination.
Robert Lee
Senior, political science
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