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Accuracy In Academia
(CPS) - Accuracy in Academia,
the ideological watchdog group
that began hunting for "liberal"
professors earlier this fall, has
begun to name names and, accor
ding to some, to apply pressure
on administrators to rein in ~ if
not fire - the professors.
In its first newsletter, AIA ac
cused Arizona State political
science Prof. Mark Reader of us
ing his classes to espouse his
views on nuclear weaponry.
AIA National Director Mat
thew Scully says AIA will be
naming three more allegedly
leftist professors in its next
newsletter, which the organiza
tion distributes to 5,000 people
and organizations.
Scully estimates there are
10,000 leftist professors working
on American campuses today,
and reports classroom
"monitors" -- anonymous
students who inform AIA of what
they perceive as leftist teachers -
have already turned in the names
of about 100 instructors since the
program began in September.
"I would assume a good
number (of the complaints) are
valid," Scully says.
So far, Arizona State U has
stood behind Reader, the lone
professor named publicly.
"There have been no reprisals
against Reader," says Brent
Brown, Arizona State's vice
president of community affairs.
"He is a respected member of our
faculty."
"The administration has come
out on my behalf, fully and com
pletely," Reader affirms.
"We don't think professors are
above criticism, it's the methods
(AIA uses to monitor lectures),"
MolOtsky explains.
"What's really disturbing is
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that they are enlisting students
who won't reveal their identity,"
she says.
"Spies in the classroom break
trust between people," Reader
contends. "Students have told me
that they are less willing to speak
up in the class and professors
don't feel free to talk privately to
students anymore. They don't
want conversation to become
public property."
Scully, however, disagrees
with Reader's public lectures,
largely because he uses too much
class time to discuss the threat of
nuclear war.
"He devotes his whole class to
the nuclear issue," Scully says.
"If you call a course one thing,
you should not teach something
entirely different."
"The changes are false"
Reader says. "What's so lovely
(is that) I have so much
documentation. It will" show that
they are inaccurate."
An anonymous AIA monitor
contends Oakland University
Prof. Karasch presents only the
"leftist" viewpoint about Central
America in her classes.
Scully refuses to elaborate on
the Karasch case, and Karasch
did not return phone calls to Col
lege Press Service.
Scully says AIA looks into its
monitors' reports before
"reviewing" professors in its
newsletter.
But AlA's investigations and
professors' confidence their
schools will support them haven't
muted the alarm in the academic
community.
"I have never had the volume
of responses to any issue as this
one. It's of great concern,"
Molotsky says.
The implications of what AIA is
trying to do worry Reader. "It's
absolutely frightening."
"One step leads to another, Mc-
Carthy started by labeling people
communists, but then some of
them lost their jobs," Cal-Davis
administrator Bill Antaramian
observes.
"This is what was done in Nazi
Germany. Students did this for
Hitler when he was getting
started," Antaramian adds.
Scully contends AlA's objective
is merely to "make free and open
debate," on views expoused by
leftist professors.
ASU's Reader attributes the ef
fort to what he sees as AlA's un
willingness to allow free and open
debate.
"Most political thinking
(today) is being cast against the
possibility of extinction of the
human race," he says. "These
people don't want to think about
the extinction possibility."
But Scully asserts it's the pro
fessors who aren't thinking.
"They (professors) have led an
insular existence. A word of
criticism to them represents cen
sorship," Scully observes. "When
you have an ideological fever
swamp, a little chill might do
them some good."
"Nobody expects professors to
be bias-free," Scully says, but he
wants them not to abuse the spirit
of academic freedom by ad
vocating their views in class.
"If professors don't tell
students how lucky they are (to
live in the U.S.), they are not do
ing their job," Scully believes.
He does not think
"conservative" professors ad
vocate their view in class.
"We need not pretend to need to
monitor conservative profs abus
ing their position," Scully says.
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