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...conservative alumni group at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has drawn national scrutiny after offering students money for gathering information on “radical” professors...
...Thernstrom, who has taught at UCLA and is considered one of Harvard’s most conservative professors, said he was contacted by the BAA at its founding last year and agreed to join in support of its goal to promote objectivity in the classroom...
...However, after BAA President Andrew Jones, a recent graduate of UCLA, began a series of aggressive measures—including publishing a list of the “dirty 30” radical professors and offering monetary rewards for students to gather information about professors—Thernstrom decided to officially sever ties with the group...
...UCLA professor emeritus Jascha Kessler, another advisory board member who resigned, said he was also surprised by Jones’ strategy to employ students in collecting lecture notes and tape recordings of the targeted professors. Students were offered up to $50 for collecting lecture notes and hand-outs and $100 for “full, detailed lecture notes, all professor-distributed materials, and full tape recordings of every class session,” according to the BAA website...
...specifically. But there are other risks too. Some trips have ended catastrophically, with suicides or fatal accidents. In other cases, the disaster was not physical but emotional. "There were a lot of people who decompensated into major mental illness," says Dr. Charles Grob, a professor of psychiatry at UCLA's school of medicine. "But you could make the case that these were people who were vulnerable to begin with...