| By KevinCollins - Mar 8th, 2005 at 12:37 pm EST |
| Also listed in: Campus Progress Blog |
This isn't the first time that Horowtize has used dubious examples to try to prove that conservative studetns are discriminated against on campus. In January, Horowitz and Students for Academic Freedom -- not to mention the rest of the right-wing media establishment -- were trafficking the story of California college student Ahmad Al-Qloushi. They claimed that he was discriminated against for his pro-American views. Turns out that the paper was just bad and didn't answer the question asked. (See Matt Singer's post on CampusProgress.org for more info on this case).
These, along with the other non-stories spread by Horowitz and SAF, point out a serious reason why all of these "Academic Bills of Rights" are a horrible idea. Simply put, lots of people feel wronged by professors, when they may not necessarily be justified. All that these bills would create are a mass of lawsuits against professors by students who got lousy grades they earned with lousy work. If lawsuits did get out of hand, professors would be pressured to give unfairly high grades to students who held views different from their own.

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