Colo. GOP Students Claim Left-Wing Bias

"I'm shocked the students would resort to this," said Barbara Bintliff, a CU
law school professor and chairwoman of the Boulder Faculty Assembly. "I'm
concerned they may wind up with a blacklist" Hey, honey, what goes around,
comes around. Remember the saying in the 1960's, "Do your own thing?"
Well, that's what they're doing, babe. Get used to it.
http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/CURepublicans/


Today: January 20, 2004 at 12:50:11 PST

Colo. GOP Students Claim Left-Wing Bias

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - Republican students at the University of Colorado
launched a Web site to gather complaints about left-leaning faculty members,
saying they want to document discrimination against conservative students
and indoctrination to the liberal viewpoint.

"We want concrete examples of bias in our arsenal when we go to the
administration, the regents and the Legislature," said Brad Jones, 20,
chairman of the College Republicans, who launched the Web site last week.

The CU College Republicans are affiliated with Students for Academic
Freedom, a national organization started by California conservative activist
David Horowitz, who is pushing a Colorado effort to protect students from
what the group sees as harassment or discrimination based on political
beliefs.

Most faculty and many Democrats deny liberal indoctrination exists on
campuses.

"I'm shocked the students would resort to this," said Barbara Bintliff, a CU
law school professor and chairwoman of the Boulder Faculty Assembly. "I'm
concerned they may wind up with a blacklist"

Travis Leiker, 22, president of the College Democrats at CU, said classrooms
are full of different perspectives. "I think the conservative students who
feel there is a bias are more afraid of hearing points of view different
from their own," he said.

Lawmakers are also involved. Republican State Senate President John Andrews
called for all state universities to submit their anti-discrimination
policies in November.

Conservative lawmakers introduced a resolution last week calling for the
defense of students' First Amendment rights, including expression "based
solely on viewpoint."