You can't get a good education if they're telling you only half the story...
*Author ignites debate at West*
- The West Express reports on Dr. Black's visit to the West campus on 3/29/05
Dear ASU West Students and Visitors,
I would like to welcome you to the web site for the Students for Academic Freedom at the West Campus to Arizona State University.
As ASU students, it is time that we face the reality that we are being short-changed in our education. Like most universities, ASU West believes strongly in cultural and ethnic diversity on campus, but, like most universities, ASU does not seek intellectual diversity. An overwhelming majority of the professors, student associations, guest speakers/professors, workshops, and other activities are biased to the political left. The political right is grossly underrepresented in almost all aspects of campus life, classrooms, and textbooks. This is not right, and we should demand better. As David Horowitz would say, if we're going to pay $4000 a year in tuition, we shouldn't get just half the story.
It is the mission of this organization to petition for the support of students, faculty, and the ASU administration in our quest to achieve the following goals:
1. To promote intellectual diversity on campus.
2. To defend the right of students to be treated with respect by faculty and administrators, regardless of their political or religious beliefs.
3. To promote fairness, civility and inclusion in student affairs.
4. To secure the adoption of the Academic Bill of Rights as official university policy.
It is imperative that we strive for these goals so that we can foster an environment on campus open to the free exchange of all ideas. Unfortunately, ASU West does not foster this environment, and it's time that changes. Students for Academic Freedom needs your help...
I hope that by visiting this web site you have already made the decision to support our mission. Please contact us so that we can show you how!
Sincerely,
Kevin Smith
President, SAF - ASU West
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.
-- Benjamin Franklin