First this:
In a showdown over academic freedom, a prominent
legal scholar said Wednesday that the University of California,
Irvine’s chancellor had succumbed to conservative political pressure
in rescinding his contract to head the university’s new law school, a
charge the chancellor vehemently denied.Erwin Chemerinsky, a well-known liberal expert on constitutional
law, said he had signed a contract Sept. 4, only to be told Tuesday by
Chancellor Michael V. Drake that he was voiding their deal because
Chemerinsky was too liberal and the university had underestimated
"conservatives out to get me."
Now this:
After a group of UC Davis women faculty began circulating a petition,
UC regents rescinded an invitation to Larry Summers, the controversial
former president of Harvard University, to speak at a board dinner
Wednesday night in Sacramento.
Both of these decisions are shameful.
Both decisions are shameful. Summers has been misunderstood and misinterpreted by too many narrow minded academics trying to be politically correct instead of searching for the truth. The pettiness of the academic world is truly disheartening.
Certainly, it’s pretty bad to rescind a job offer to a good scholar because you’re afraid of upsetting some major donors. That diminishes your academic brand out of the gate.
And it’s really awful to rescind the speaking invitation. University leftists are now going after the best and brightest liberals.
One of the biggest political problems that Democrats have is a gap among the college educated. There are many reasons for this (some related to socio-economic issues). But one major reason for this undergraduate gap is that undergraduates mainly get their exposure to non-Republican ideas through the most annoying, grating, and moronic campus leftists. Conceptually speaking, if your choice is between Noam Chomsky and George Bush, George Bush starts to look pretty good.
It really does fall to a small handful of intelligent liberals to show college students that you can be a Democrat with thoughts that consist of something more than mindless platitudes. And these liberals are increasingly shunned and shouted down by the lesser lefty academic lights.
I wrote an email of complaint to
mlstanton@ucdavis.edu
It is the adress of Maureen Stanton, a Professor for Evolution and Ecology who is among the woman faculty that circulated the petition to stop Summers from speaking.
Here is my mail:
I just wanted to leave you a note telling you that I think you are hurting science, by restraining people as Larry Summers to speak. Letting political sensibilities trump over scientific debate is an unenlightened practice and hinders the progressiveness, on which behalf you probably assume to be acting. No matter how unpleasant some of the hypothesis Summers has stated (he has always made it very clear that he himself sees them only as hypothesis) might seem to you, it is through critical debate not through silencing your opponent that you should encounter such claims, when they come from a scientist as reasonable as Summers. For me your action is further testimony to how political sensibilities hinder civil liberties in the current polarized enviroment in the United States, please be smarter than that and admit that you made a mistake (the most honourable thing a good scientist adhering to Popper’s principle of falsification can do anyways).
Alex-
I covered both in my blog at http:drtaxsacto.blogspot.com. There is some talk that Drake and Chemerinsky may yet come back together.
Something even odder about the Summers business is that I am sure he was not invited to, or scheduled to,
or planning to, speak about this particular matter, which, if I remember correctly, he had actually apologized
for saying back while he was still Harvard prez, much to the annoyance of some people at the time. He almost
certainly was to have spoken on more strictly economics matters. So, the whole thing is really ludicrous,
banning somebody for something that they once said, for which they apologized, and which they were not scheduled
to speak on anyway. I am not for such censorship in general, but this case is even stupider than the usual.
The UCI administration seems to be seriously incompetent, especially its current Chancellor.
Hear, hear, anon!
Summers’ second most prominent critic, UC Santa Cruz President Deneen Denton jumped off the roof of her lover’s high-rise apartment building last year in the wake of a series of financial scandals involving lesbian UC administrators. For the quite lurid details, see:
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/061001_diversity.htm
The jihad against Summers isn’t intellectual. It’s all about money and power.
“Frankly, we’d like to see the story just die at this point,” says Stanton
After she’s ambushed and killed. Silly woman.
Now let me get this right…a university that discriminates against liberals??? Up next, the tooth fairy…
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