We made the big time! Too bad. See article from The FIRE about our esteemed interim president's view of speech rights. (New 4/18/00)
A new example of McCarthyism after someone speaks against a conference on homosexuality.

Click here for the APSY story. The Minnesota Scholar publishes the APSY story on 31-Jan-00. The St. Cloud Times refuses permission to post their article here! If this makes you want to speak out, CLICK HERE!
 
 

	Recommended Books. Click on the Shadow University Book image to link to books recommended by the National Association of Scholars.  The Shadow University book by Kors and Silverglate is highly recommended
Stories and announcements	A Review of the Shadow University in the context of the SCSU experience: Part I The Applied Psychology Story Be careful with your analogies: A story of a student's free speech suppressed (NEW 12/21/99) Shadow University/Mississippi joins forces with the new Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Inc. (FIRE) - Important information
If any of the following quotes from the Shadow University ( Kors & Silverglate, 1998 ) remind you of an incident you have experienced at SCSU, you may have a story to share.
"Minnesota really should have its own chapter...censorship, however, is a tide that always is coming in, and freedom of speech knows few periods of safety at Minnesota's public campuses" (p. 176).
"...academic notions and programs of diversity and multiculturalism are marked, almost everywhere, by dogmatic and partisan definitions or models" (p. 192).
"All that the social engineers of diversity mean, in fact, is the appreciation, celebration, and study of those people who think exactly as they do about the nature and causes of oppression, wherever they are found and however nonrepresentative those thinkers might be of the broader groups that they purportedly represent" (p. 192).
"There are core beliefs of current thought reform..there is only one appropriate set of views about race, gender, sexual preference, and culture and holding an inappropriate believe, once truth has been offered, is not an intellectual disagreement, but an act of oppression and denial" (p. 215).
"The motto of many academic administrators, however, is the motto of careerists everywhere--'no trouble on my watch.'  There is all too frequently more interest in avoiding high-profile problems than in achieving academic and intellectual greatness."  (p. 328).
"Speech codes merely formalize the will to censor and to devalue liberty of thought and speech." (p. 100).
"Speech codes, to the very extent they are successful, repress by the fear they inspire, not by the number of public cases they produce" (p. 102)
"White students daily hear themselves, their friends, and their parents denounced as 'racists' and 'oppressors,' while their tormentors live with special protections from offense" (p. 103).
"University administrators seem unconcerned by the double standards and differential allocation of rights fostered by these policies" (p. 82).
"Accusations are base on 'impact,' not intention, therefore, the accused is guilty if the accuser believes him to be guilty" (p. 93).

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