So far, this one has flown under my radar. Nonetheless, I am always amazed at what Buckeye Republicans will try to accomplish.
Columbus – A proposal to restrict professors’ political speech in college classrooms will be dropped for an agreement among Ohio’s higher education institutions to police themselves on the subject.
The presidents of Ohio’s universities agreed this week to review and more vigorously promote campus policies on accepted speech.
“We’ve committed to reviewing student rights and grievance procedures and committed to an environment where those rights are broadly disseminated,” said Jim McCollum, executive director of the Inter-University Council of Ohio.
The lurking alternative was controversial Senate Bill 24, proposed by Sen. Larry Mumper, Republican of Marion. He said most Ohio professors are liberals who could be prone to imposing their political ideologies on students.
“I think the majority of professors have the honesty and integrity to conduct their classes, but there are some who do not,” said Mumper, who said he estimates that more than 80 percent of professors are liberals.
Talk about contradiction in terms. If the 80 percent of professors are liberal, thereby being a majority, I guess that makes them the ones who have “honesty and integrity.” Right? And enough already with the idea that liberal ideas are being broadcast far and wide in Ohio; virtually blacking out conservative values. I mean, isn’t it enough that conservatives control the executive, legislative, and judicial branches or gorvernment? Or that the Christian conservative “intelligent design” platform has made it into Ohio public school’s curriculum?
Whaa, whaa, whaa. Freakin’ cry me a river.