Debate on Florida Horowitz bill
Today, my colleague Roy Weatherford debated Dennis Baxley on Democracy Now for about 10 minutes. It was cordial, and Roy acquitted himself well (he was positively sparkling when on The O’Reilly Factor in 2001).
HB837/SB2126 update (Florida legislature)
It’s now the end of the Education Council meeting, which I’ve been listening to on-line. Horowitz got an hour of airtime. One student from Florida State University Students for Academic Freedom said that he received ten complaints in the last week—which he wouldn’t detail, of course. United Faculty of Florida President Tom Auxter had about […]
Florida’s HB 837/SB 2126 news
In the Florida House tomorrow, the Education Council will be hearing from David Horowitz as a witness, invited by Council chair Dennis Bexley (R-Ocala), who is also the sponsor of HB 837. But I expect that Bexley will be politic enough to let several faculty representatives speak, including the head of the AAUP Florida Conference […]
Is the ABOR language a fig leaf?
I’ve written before that Florida’s House Bill 837 (our version of the David Horowitz ABOR) does not write into law any insulation of the curriculum from legislative meddling (such as the attempt to foist a chiropractic school onto Florida State last year). This Tuesday, the first committee hearing the bill recommended it on a party-line […]
Ward Churchill news
Thanks to Ralph Luker for pointing out that the University of Colorado has released its preliminary report on the accusations against Churchill. The university decided to forward some of the allegations to the standing faculty committee on research misconduct but not to act on three matters: His writings about the 9/11 terrorist attacks One misconduct […]