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Minnesota lawmakers last week became the latest to rally to the cause of conservative activist David Horowitz, whose Academic Bill of Rights is meant to rescue students from what the legislators perceive as rampant liberal bias. Over the past two months, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Rhode Island and Tennessee have also started considering bills that would codify Horowitz's ideas by, say, not allowing students to be punished with a bad grade for their views. Georgia's senate passed a similar nonbinding resolution last year, while Colorado's version was withdrawn after state-university administrators signed a pledge to ensure that...
...tenured professors somewhere." Says Wisconsin assemblyman Steve Nass, a UW-Whitewater alumnus and chief sponsor of the Churchill resolution: "[Legislators] deal with the tax dollars that are put into the UW system. We have a responsibility to see that they are used appropriately." He may soon propose a Horowitz-inspired bill in Wisconsin...
...this fall the NFL brought veteran high school coach Jerry Horowitz to the city to teach Football 101 to 33 females, a group that included cops, teachers and stay-at-home mothers. After 16 hours of training, the women ran 12 practices for 12- to 15-year-old boys and a few girls taking part in the league's Junior Player Development program...
...When I first heard this idea, I honestly thought it was a joke," says Horowitz, who coached New York City high school football for more than 25 years. "But then I saw how seriously some of these women have approached this. Coaching and teaching are the same thing, and some of the best teachers in the country are women. They're an untapped resource...
Students and administrations are often too quick to stifle ideas with which they disagree rather than having a meaningful dialogue. One would only have to look as far as UC Berkeley’s Horowitz debacle or Cal Poly’s censure of Steve Hinkle to realize that. It is troubling that the culture of academic life has eschewed the notion of vibrant discussion. Instead, we stifle what we do not want to hear, and we fail to engage on topics for which we have not studied. If we walk away from our debates, we will never be able...