Speaker 1: Well, The High and Mighty of New York Times says
Speaker 1: a new threat to academic freedom is emerged to new
Speaker 1: website launched last week called Professor watch List. The watch
Speaker 1: list names two hundred college professors who, according to students,
Speaker 1: spread leftist propaganda in their classrooms that are biased against
Speaker 1: conservative students. The mere existence of this list is supposedly
Speaker 1: a threat to academic freedom. Judio says. Our Pino, an
Speaker 1: associate professor of history at Kent State, is on the list.
Speaker 1: He complains that the goal of the site is to
Speaker 1: shame and defame professors. Other critics warned the site will
Speaker 1: be used to harass professors or maybe even sabotage their careers.
Speaker 1: Not so, says Charlie Kirk, the executive director of Turning
Speaker 1: Point USA, which started the watch list. He says that
Speaker 1: it isn't a secret that some college professors are totally
Speaker 1: out of line, and it's time to expose them. I
Speaker 1: cannot tell you how many calls I've taken over the
Speaker 1: years some college students and parents describing the liberal prop
Speaker 1: a game to These kids are routinely exposed to in class,
Speaker 1: and the hateful treatment they've received at liberal universities I
Speaker 1: mean they have to endure ridicule, bullying, and blatant hostility,
Speaker 1: bad grades, all of that in silence for fear their
Speaker 1: grades will suffer if they speak up. The Professor watch
Speaker 1: List is not a threat to academic freedom. It makes
Speaker 1: the point that conservatives have academic freedom too, which is
Speaker 1: a point long overdue.