1/13/06
Subject: UCLA
Hi folks,
Your Neo-MacArtheism has the potential to backfire?
I list only a few problems with your campaign to pay students "to snitch" on professors.
egocentric myopia (the natural tendency to think absolutistically within an overly narrow point of view)
egocentric infallibility (the natural tendency to think that our beliefs are true because we believe them)
egocentric righteousness (the natural tendency to feel superior in the light of our confidence that we are in the possession of THE TRUTH)
egocentric hypocrisy (the natural tendency to ignore flagrant inconsistencies between what we profess to believe and the actual beliefs our behavior imply, or inconsistencies between the standards to which we hold ourselves and those to which we expect others to adhere)
egocentric oversimplification (the natural tendency to ignore real and important complexities in the world in favor of simplistic notions when consideration of those complexities would require us to modify our beliefs or values)
C. Hughes
Ernesto Chavez, echavez@utep.edu
1/13/06
your hateful site is
insulting to all UCLA Alumni
As a UCLA Alumnus I must tell you that your web is repugnant. Face the fact people, a diverse professoriate is here to stay regardless of what you do. Know that I and my fellow alumni will spread the word of your hateful and deceitful web site.
Ernesto Chávez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
History
University of Texas at El Paso
UCLA B.A. 1985, M.A. 1988, C.Phil 1990, Ph.D., 1994
David Starr, unionpsycho@msn.com
1/14/06
paying students
I'm thinking that if what is acquired in an education at UCLA is fear of hearing ideas with which a student, alumnus, or parent might not agree, then probably the entire faculty should be fired. I have heard of a professor actually teaching students that Adam and Eve really didn't ride to church on the backs of dinosaurs.
My oh my.
David Starr, Ph.D.
Meridian, ID
Virginia W. Jackson, vwj1@nyu.edu
1/14/06
Your Organization
To the "Bruin Alumni" group:
A colleague at NYU has just forwarded to me your latest announcement inviting UCLA
students to expose
radical professors on campus. As a UCLA alum and university professor, I am horrified. I shall do everything in my power to denounce your group and its tactics. I have already contacted the ACLU, as it seems that many have already done. While free speech is a constitutional right, conducting libelous campaigns in the name of UCLA almni who do not share your views or approve of your tactics is patently illegal. I am consulting with
colleagues at the law school about ways to stop your campaign. In the meantime, I request that you change the name of your organization. You certainly do not represent me as an alumna, and I am quite sure that you do not represent the majority of UCLA alumni.
Sincerely,
Virginia Jackson
Department of English
New York University
19 University Place
NY, NY 10003
jsmuk@umich.edu, cc: historians@umich.edu
1/15/06
UCLAProfs.com
Dear BruinAlumni.com,
I am writing you only to say that as a graduate student at the University of Michigan I have received word of your "program" of "exposure" and prosecution, and find it antithetical to both academic freedom and the spirit of unharassed intellectual inquiry. It means little to tell you this,as I am sure you must receive such emails on a regular basis, nevertheless I feel compelled to send one more. As it is apparent that your goal is to intimidate politically outspoken academics, I should only like to inform you that despite your efforts there will remain countless intellectuals across the country, and indeed across the planet, who will reject and condemn your type of prosecutory activities, and continue to speak both their minds and their consciences.
One Such,
Janam Mukherjee
Doctoral Student of Anthropology and History
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
John Dough, anthropomorphic88@hotmail.com
1/15/06
curious
Dear UCLA Profs and Bruinalumni I have a question.
Are your web sites in any way saterical, or some sort of crazy joke? I mean reading through your web sites they strike me as somthing out of a saterical sci-fi movie/book about a neo-facist state that encourages the public to rat out their neigbours and family members for wonderful prizes. Didn't Hitler and Stalin do somthing simaler while they were in power?
thank you
John
1/16/06
Important information
about liberal professors!
Dear Bruin Alumni Association,
I am writing in regards to your offer of cash for "exposing" professors
discussing important current issues such as the war in Iraq or Preseident
Bush. I have attended many classes in which professors pushed their own
radical and liberal agendas on their students who, lacking proper
indocrination of republican and conservative ideologies, were helpless
against the arguments of our adversaries. I am afraid professors are
teaching us students poisonous ideas against freedom. They are taking over
my generation like a black storm which threatens to destroy us all. I even
saw one student wearing a peace sign on his shirt, all while our leader neads
our support!
This is why I was thrilled to find your website. It marks an important return
to the middle part of the last century when leftists couldn't walk the
streets without constantly watching their backs. It brings me comfort to
imagine them, set straight in their daily fear of blacklisting. We need this
kind of authority in our lives today to root out every last Benedict Arnold
and throw all of them in jail for treason.
It was thinking about this that has made me think about the Bruin Alumni
Association's mission. Reading your website made me think about a few
things. One of the news stories talked about confused students who stood up
against the war on terror. I was very disgusted. I began to think that if
they are fighting a war ON terror, then terror is what THEY want. Thus
shouldn't we LET THEM HAVE IT? I mentioned in the last section the
effectiveness of McCarthyism and how it set unrighteous leftists back in
their place with terror. This has led me to believe that leftists are
actually REPENTING, they are begging for terror to set them in THEIR PLACE, a
return to McCarthyism. Those pro-terrorites want to dread the hand that is
poised above their homosexual perverted bottoms, prepared to spank them the
second they utter some stupid protest slogan.
SPANK EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!
I will keep reading your website and praying to God while I continue to wear a
shirt every day with an American flag that reads "These colors don't run." I
hope that George Bush sees me one day driving my SUV through Disney World and
is proud. It would bring a lump to his throat as I drove to the nearest
mosque and transformed it into a church with the love of Jesus.
Please email aback and tell me what you think!
keep on rockin the free world!
Daniel Duffy,
President of Brandeis Republicans
Anna Fierling, anna_fierling@yahoo.com
1/16/06
dangerous
anti-American UCLA professors
Hello: Thanks for your work in protecting the youth of America from dangerous, radical ideas. I would like to turn in a few more professors - actually, I'd like to report that the entire faculty in the History, Anthropology, and English departments are freedom-hating, terrorist-coddling, commie bastards. They should all be replaced. If we could hire Ann Coulter to teach all the Anthrolopology classes, Bill O'Reilly to teach all the English courses, and David Irving or perhaps Ariel Sharon, if he recovers, to teach all the History classes, than perhaps we could undo all the damage that the pinko, pro-terrorist faculty have caused.
Anna Fierling
Otto-Suhr-Institut
FU-Berlin
"Freiheit ist immer Freiheit der Andersdenkenden."
1/16/06
a question for
you—and a deal
Mr. Jones-
If I may ask you to consider the following:
People like yourself, who are so upset that academia is dominated
with liberals that oppose the Bush administration (and it is),
should ask themselves why it is that corporate boardrooms are
filled with Republicans that support the Administration (and they
are).
Think about it: if your priority is understanding the world from a
critical perspective you are almost sure to be a progressive--which
is to say, critical of the world's dominant economic and political
orders. Conversely, if your priority is economic success for a
corporate heirarchy you are almost sure to be a conservative, which
is to say, supportive of those same orders.
Its really that simple.
In fact, I'd be willing to make a deal with you: I'll consider your
effort to forcibly increase conservative perspectives in the
college classrooms of America, if you agree to forcibly increase
progressive perspectives in the corporate boardrooms of America.
I'll make that deal with you anytime.
So, I guess my question for you is this: why are you so intent to
fight the liberalism of academia when your kind already controls
the real centers of power in this world?
Brigham Golden
Ron J, rjacobs3625@charter.net
1/17/06
anti-american
JUst looked at your website. You decry anti-american professors, however it is actions like yours that are truly anti-american. Let me remind you of our history--we were born in rebellion and insist on the right of dissent--or doesn't your copy of the constitution include the Bill of Rights?
(Read Numbers one and four closely--you might learn something about what it means to be a citizen of the US) By the way check out the 14th while you're at it.)
Your page doesn't promote US principles, it promotes tyranny, just like the president you love so much.
ron jacobs
north carolina
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
David Torres-Rouff, dtorresrouff@coloradocollege.edu
1/17/06
radical outings
Dear Mr. Jones -
hopefully you are aware of the crime your group is committing. all
politics aside (difficult for both you and your targets, it would seem),
professor lectures are copyrighted and cannot be recorded without
permission. offering to pay students to engage in this activity
bears further legal complications.
perhaps it is this sort of illegal listening in and misunderstanding of
the meanings of both free speech and academic freedom that has these
professors upset in the first place.
Why not support a public forum on the matter and use your
"alumni" connections to get some space on campus to do
it? wouldn't this make more sense and reach a wider audience?
your program seems like the covert action of a frightened group of people
- what creates this?
david torres-rouff
David Torres-Rouff, dsr1@umail.ucsb.edu
1/17/06
per your request
I offer a copy of a letter I submitted to the UC office of the President:
To the office of the President:
I wanted to bring to your attention a disturbing program being sponsered by an organization claiming to be the Bruin Alumni Association. They are attempting to "quash radical professors" who discuss the Bush administration in class. They have sent out an email that reads, in part, as follows:
"The following are materials we need for past or ongoing classes, along with rates of compensation: Full, detailed lecture notes, all professor-distributed materials, and full tape recordings of every class session, for one class: $100"
as a UC graduate student and GSI, I recall that recording lectures without permission is against UC policy and illegal. Moreover, paying students to do this seems to further complicate the matter.
Perhaps you could do some research and take a look into the situation.
This is the url to this organization:
http://www.uclaprofs.com/profs/profsindex.html
It is equally disturbing that this comes from a group claiming to represent all UCLA alums.
all the best,
david torres-rouff
ph.d. candidate, department of history, UCSB
1/17/06
UCLAprofs
Dear sir or madam,
Is your website a hoax? So professors are supposed to divorce themselves
from politics? If they shall be censured than your efforts are no
different than those of Hitler, Stalin, and a host of other public
opinion makers who have lent credibility to the idea that only those
that have financial or political power have a right to shape the way
young people think.
I am disgusted.
James Nichols
State University of New York, Stony Brook
History
Joseph F. Dunphy
M.B.A., jfdunphy@verizon.net
1/17/06
Saw your group
mentioned on Daily Kos
and thought I would join in the chorus of people who hold views contrary to yours.
1/17/06
How dare they!
Do these awful teachers support the heretical spousings of evolution as well? Hopefully such crazy notions as the rule of law or equality for all are going to be examined.
Well anyways, goodluck spying on the professors at UCLA, heaven knows you can't trust the students down there in Westwood to think for themselves and draw their own conclusions, right?
Jeanie White, jbean612@comcast.net
1/17/06
Just Read About Your
Group
You and the rest of the students involved in this activity are truly disgusting. Joe McCarthy would have been so proud to have called you his own. My daughter will be going to college in a few years, and the idea that a hate-filled group such as yours is actually advertising for students to tape classes and spy on teachers is enough to make me quite sure she will never visit UCLA. I will also be contacting the Board of Regents of your university to let them know about my concerns regarding your group.
Hopefully, enough light will be directed under the rock where you and your group reside to bring your true motivation into the light; where it can be examined and discarded for the Karl Rovian inspired smear group it truly appears to be.
Jeanie White
Brentwood, TN
Robert Petrecca, robert.petrecca@cpr-capital.com
1/17/06
nice job
With all due respect:
Are you some kind of A-Hole?
Spying on faculty for what purpose?
Shove it up your Bushite A-Hole!
Muffy McGuffin, muffymcguffin@hotmail.com
1/17/06
Feedback
This is truly disgusting! I have two advanced degrees from UCLA. I think this makes me a "Bruin Alumni" and you have ABSOLUTELY NO RIGHT to invoke my affiliation with my alma mater for this disgusting, invasive, small-minded, and in every way SICK AND OFFENSIVE project.
Cease and desist.
M Neumann, mneumann77@mac.com
1/17/06
Please investigate
this
* Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert - avoided the draft, did not serve.
* Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey - avoided the draft, did not serve.
* House Majority Leader Tom Delay - avoided the draft, did not serve (1). "So many minority youths had volunteered ... that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself."
* House Majority Whip Roy Blunt - did not serve
* Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - did not serve. (An impressive medical resume, but not such a friend to cats in Boston.)
* Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, R-KY - did not serve (1)
* Rick Santorum, R-PA, third ranking Republican in the Senate - did not serve. (1)
* Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott - avoided the draft, did not serve.
* GW Bush - decided that a six-year Nat'l Guard commitment really means four years. Still says that he's "been to war." Huh?
* VP Cheney - several deferments (1, 2), the last by marriage (in his own words, "had other priorities than military service") (1)
* Former Att'y Gen. John Ashcroft - did not serve (1, 2); received seven deferment to teach business ed at SW Missouri State
* Jeb Bush, Florida Governor - did not serve. (1)
* Karl Rove - avoided the draft, did not serve (1), too busy being a Republican.
* Former Speaker Newt Gingrich - avoided the draft, did not serve (1, 2)
* "B-1" Bob Dornan - avoided Korean War combat duty by enrolling in college acting classes (Orange County Weekly article). Enlisted only after the fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm - avoided the draft, did not serve, four (?) student deferments
* Senator John McCain - McCain's naval honors include the Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. Why did the Bush campaign smear him so? At least Senators Cleland (D-GA), Kerry (D-MA), Kerrey (D-NE), Robb (D-VA) and Hagel (R-NE) defended him.
* Duke Cunningham - nominated for the Medal of Honor, received the Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, fifteen Air Medals, the Purple Heart, and several other decorations Recently entered plea bargain on felony charges of bribery, etc. etc.
Shankar Mukherji, mukherji@mit.edu
1/17/06
Reported to the IRS
To whom it may concern,
Thanks for the website. It gave me just another example of the difference between the academic dumping ground UCLA's undergraduate programs often are (allowing students such as yourself to even attend) and a more reasonable place like MIT or Harvard; thank goodness I passed up UCLA for Cambridge, MA. I'm sorry you guys aren't academically capable students,
but taking it out on your professors is a little embarrassing, isn't it?
You're being reported to the IRS by hundreds of people tomorrow. Advocating on behalf of one political party over another is inconsistent with your 501(3)(c) status. Your database of contributions from UCLA employees is all the evidence we need.
Sincerely,
Shankar Mukherji
----------------------------------------------------------
Shankar Mukherji
Harvard University/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Division of Health Science and Technology
Biological Physics Group, MIT Department of Physics
MIT 13-2013
Cambridge, MA 02139
1/17/06
Some comments on your
website
You folks are seriously confused. You attack the personal ideologies of professors while barely establishing proof that these ideologies somehow influence their conduct or lecture material in the classroom. You cite a litany of petitions or left-wing organizations faculty members have allegedly been associated with and on that basis condemn them, without considering that academics are human beings just like the rest of us, who lead personal lives quite divorced from their goals as educators. Who cares if Professor Makdisi spoke out against Israeli occupation on some radio show? Does that somehow make him a flawed Romanticism scholar (if you think it does, that only testifies to your own warped ideologically-polluted thinking)? Maybe if he a taught a class on Israeli-Arab politics, his personal activism would constitute a conflict of interests, but he does not--he is a humanities professor (on a side note, UCLA recently hired a former Israeli diplomat to teach a class on Israeli-Arab politics--I wonder if that instance of faculty selection strikes you as ideologically "tendentious" on the university's part?). He has every right as an individual to engage in activism outside the classroom, and throughout your article on him you do not demonstrate any proof that he has used the classroom as a forum to vent his opinions. I have taken classes with many of the professors profiled on your website, and was surprised to discover that these professors held the views they do--simply because they never aired them before their students.
Your site says much more about you than about any of the professors you indict. Your agenda is predicated on marginalizing anyone who embraces a leftist cause, regardless of their reputation or effectiveness as a teacher. The whole idea is actually laughable, really. I'm sure it's a real revelation on the part of your readers that, *gasp*, there may be a few unabashedly liberal professors tenured at UCLA. I mean, really, who would have thought--liberal professors? What a brain-busting investigative exercise on your parts. Next thing you know, you'll be telling us that some Hollywood elites are liberals--and that the NAACP SUPPORTS affirmative-action.
Rahi Azizi
UCLA, English major
Eric William Lamp, elamp@pipeline.com
1/17/06
Exposing UCLA
Professors
Fuck you, you fucking fascists.
My you all rot in a well deserved hell.
Eric Lamp
Kristen Konzak, kkonzak@hotmail.com
1/17/06
Problem Professor
I have a UCLA professor that you should look at. He is all the time talking about how Bush is acting above the law, just because he wiretapped U.S. citizens who probably were doing something wrong. This Prof. also talked about how he has been involved in stretching the credibility of our intelligence to invade a country that has been sucked dry by sanctions and bombing since his father's war, only to privatize it and seize it's valuable resources. He also pointed out how we have become a state that sponsors torture and promotes economic policies through the IMF and World Bank that keep poor nations in debt. He also spoke of how his party is guilty of ethics violations and how the tax cuts on dividends and estate inheritence has robbed the treasury at the expense of the economy and the working class and how no bid contracts to Haliburton and Bechtel amount to a form of looting the Treasury. The class is entitled "policy and ethics in government." I guess everything he has said makes sense. But I'm still disappointed that he's actually coming out and lecturing about it. The media haven't really said anything like this, so can he actually teach about this? Is there really such a thing as academic freedom or the First Amendment? Can't you just fire all the professors who say things you don't agree with even if they might be true? I mean, can't you fire all the biology professors who believe evolution is an accurate description of life on the planet? That's not what the bible says...There must be something nasty we can do - like form a website called UCLAprofs.com and terrorize them for their free speech. That will show them. Then we'll say that the academic elite are not so smart, just because they are telling us things that we don't like, we can get them fired. Isn't that so? just because the faculty are smart and stuff and read alot and are able to see through the charade that the administration is feeding the American public doesn't mean they should be able to tell other people about it, right? Or should it be? Does being a UCLA alum mean that you are a mean spirited anti-education fascist pig who wants to punish people who are armed with facts rather than talking points from a corrupt political machine that will go down in history as the worst administartion this country has ever had? Cause if that's what it means then by all means I want to support UCLAprofs.com because that is a really noble cause to attack people who are worried about the direction that our fucked up country is headed. because really everything is fine. President Bush is the best president we've ever had.
J O’Neill, jj_oneill@hotmail.com
1/17/06
how reactionary can
you get?
Dear Bruin Alumni --
I recently became aware of your site. I have no affiliation with UCLA,
but your site deeply troubles me nonetheless.
I certainly support your right to free speech. However, your attacks on
so many professors, who often sound like they are engaging in outstanding
research and teaching, baffle me. Surely there is a place for many kinds
of voices in academia. Your general phobia of ideas which do not agree
with your own and of anti-establishment critiques seems more the product of
ignorance than of enlightenment.
I would recommend you audit some of these classes that most repel you.
Perhaps you would find that there are ways to bridge the divide by
communication and mutual respect. Or then again, perhaps you ultimately
prefer to take the higher ground -- with no apparent justification. Certainly,
for many Americans, that is the easier path to follow.
Sincerely,
Jerome J. O'Neill
Jaime Muldoon, jmuldoon1@cox.net
1/18/06
Opinions
So where does one report a website that is abusive and
one-sided?
Listen, this is truly retarded; I'm talking short bus, helmet on your
head stupid.
Don't you think you could spend your money and energy better in other
ways?
If I had a dime for every cry-baby conservative wailing about mean,
liberal teachers...
Get over it!
The reason you had a bad experience at UCLA is because you are a mental
midget.
Richard White, rwhite85@comcast.net
1/18/06
Comment
Andrew:
Your tactics are reminiscent of those used by the Nazi's in the 30's against academicians with whom they disagreed.
Disagreement isn't radicalism.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Hannah Arendt was right in her assertion that evil can appear banal and very ordinary. You and your organizaiton are excellent. modern-day examples.
Richard White
Lisa Lockwood, lisap3756@hotmail.com
1/18/06
Thought policeman
Selling class notes or any recording of classes, without the express permission of the class instructor, is prohibited. Sorry, Adolph, guess you’ll have to think of another way to control thought and free speech on campus.
Section 102.23(a) of the UCLA Student Conduct code PROHIBITS the sale of notes or recordings:
102.23a: Selling Course Notes
Selling, preparing, or distributing for any commercial purpose course lecture notes or video or audio recordings of any course unless authorized by the University in advance and explicitly permitted by the course instructor in writing. The unauthorized sale or commercial distribution of course notes or recordings by a student is a violation of the UCLA Code whether or not it was the student or someone else who prepared the notes or recordings. This policy is applicable to any recording in any medium, including handwritten or typed notes.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
We're all wearing the blue dress now....
http://www.theimpeachproject.com/
John Stuart, cynic@iname.com
1/18/06
Section 102.23(a) of
the UCLA Student Conduct code PROHIBITS the sale of notes or recordings
Why are you trying to get kids kicked out of school?
Section 102.23(a) of the UCLA Student Conduct code PROHIBITS the sale of notes
or recordings:
102.23a: Selling Course Notes
Selling, preparing, or distributing for any commercial purpose course lecture
notes or video or audio recordings of any course unless authorized by the
University in advance and explicitly permitted by the course instructor in
writing. The unauthorized sale or commercial distribution of course notes or
recordings by a student is a violation of the UCLA Code whether or not it was
the student or someone else who prepared the notes or recordings. This policy
is applicable to any recording in any medium, including handwritten or typed
notes.
1/18/06
It Bearts Going out
and Finding a Job
Mr. Jones:
In perusing the internet for a biography of Art Rupe (b. 1917), I don't see any mention of military service in World War 2. I don't see any mention of military service on your part either, although it is obvious that you favor the war on terrorism (Iraq).
The far right seems perturbed that our godawful diploma mills (some categorized as "elite") sometimes admit mediocre blacks over mediocre whites but that same outrage doesn't seem to extend to the military where disproportionate numbers of backs and Hispanics serve in combat while loud white "conservatives" roam the student unions of our republic looking to argue with anyone who dares question the Iraq war which the right and their children so assicuously avoid serving in.
I don't believe Al-Queda is much of a threat to us. "But what if they get a nuclear bomb?" bellows the Bush supporter. It doesn't look like they are going to get one to me and if they did we are a long way away from them. "What about putting it in a cargo container?". On and on it goes.
Given the fact that Mr. Rupe has changed his name doesn't change my suspicion that he has an obsession with a certain Middle Eastern country and maybe that is what this is all aobut.
Dave Pilliod
Swanton, Ohio
J J, redeemus05@yahoo.com
1/18/06
UCLA notes
Section 102.23(a) of the UCLA Student Conduct code PROHIBITS the sale of notes or recordings:
102.23a: Selling Course Notes
Selling, preparing, or distributing for any commercial purpose course lecture notes or video or audio recordings of any course unless authorized by the University in advance and explicitly permitted by the course instructor in writing. The unauthorized sale or commercial distribution of course notes or recordings by a student is a violation of the UCLA Code whether or not it was the student or someone else who prepared the notes or recordings. This policy is applicable to any recording in any medium, including handwritten or typed notes.
Congratulations for encouraging students to violate university codes! They could get expelled! Your webite is a real moral beacon for America.
John Kasik, john111449@yahoo.com
1/18/06
Just Great
Mr Jones
Why don't you sponsor a book burning as well!!!!
John Kasik
Santa Maria CA
1/18/06
here’s an idea
why don't you get a job or join the army and fight in iraq.
then you can stop annoying people.
Tom Kittredge, tomkittre@yahoo.com
1/18/06
Prof.inq
I have info on a biology professor teaching the theory
of evolution, what is that worth to you?
Man, can you get more radical than being antiwar? Some
day we will eradicate peace once and for all, that'll
show those lefty's!
Mark Rupert, merupert@maxwell.syr.edu
1/18/06
BAA
Hi Andrew,
You have been hard at work. Clearly this is more than a hobby for you. Who is paying your bills? Where does the funding for BAA come from? Can you afford to be honest and forthcoming about that?
Mark
Mark Rupert
Dept. of Political Science
100 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse NY 13244-1090
Kevin Brening, kbrening@hotmail.com
1/18/06
Little Know it All
(who has forgotten history)
Dear Andrew,
Yes, I'll address you in personal terms, because people of your stature don't deserve the time of day.
Think: McCarthyism.
Now, (if you were actually able to think), please stop being such an ignoramus.
Sincerely,
K.B.
p.s.-- the world would be so much nicer without people like you.
1/18/06
Radicals
Greetings,
Recently I read an aol news report on the search for radical profs at UCLA. I further read articles at http://www.uclaprofs.com/
My comment on the subject directed towards those searching for "radical profs" is that they are not that radical to begin with because there is nothing strange or uncommon about hating the current president, or the war that he promotes. Most of the people I know share those feelings of dislike of Bush and are greatly disappointed with our government and our nation as a whole.
If no one had ever questioned our government slavery would still exist and women wouldn't be allowed to vote. Or I suppose UCLA supports that as well.
Untill these types of actions by UCLA are stopped, no one in my family would ever be allowed to attend there as long as I live.
Not respectfully,
Lisa Marie Sumner
John Kasik, john111449@yahoo.com
1/18/06
PS
PS Does the IRS know you are advising tax
deductions for contributions to your
organisation?
John, macjont@myway.com
1/18/06
Threat
You people are a greater threat to America and its values than all the terrorists put together.
1/18/06
peace
BE NICE
1/18/06
nice
ANDREW JONES; BE NICE-MAKE PEACE
Lucas Noll, lucasnoll@earthlink.net
1/18/06
Fascists
Aloha,
You guys are a bunch of fascists. Your behavior would make Stalin and Hitler proud! If you don't know what fascism is, do a google search on fascist.
Claudia Long, claudialong@earthlink.net
1/18/06
teachers
I am an alumnus and I have just been directed to your website. You know, the McCarthyesque one that's paying students to spy on their professors and try to destroy them.
I don't know if there is anything illegal about what you are doing, but I intend to find out. Perhaps some media coverage would help too. It's just sickening to watch this spread of rightwing censorship and political correctness. What will you do next to stop free speech --lynch mobs? Why do you hate America?
Mary Jane
Caswell-Stephenson, mj@oreilly.com
1/18/06
radical professors
exposed
Please realize that to come close to appearing to be
even handed, you must also disclose those professors
who would criticize former President Clinton as well.
Criticizing the President is a right of anyone in a
democracy. It's not radical. This does appear to smack
strongly of one sided politics and an attempt to intimidate
professors. Glad I can say I didn't graduate from UCLA,
or I would resign from the Alumni association immediately.
I certainly hope that you get all the attention you deserve.
--mj
Mary Jane Caswell-Stephenson
mj@oreilly.com
IS Asset Manager
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Julie K. Beardsley, badgerx@pacbell.net
1/18/06
Truth?
Are you angry because you couldn't get into UCLA grad school?
You are an ignorant, VERY young man. I suggest you spend several years traveling around the world, and get a better understanding of how the world really works.
The right wing agenda you espouse is wrong on so many levels.
Mateo, mlorenz7@yahoo.com
1/18/06
Yahoo! News Story –
UCLA Alumni Want Scoop on ‘Radical’ Profs – Yahoo! News
mateo (mlorenz7@yahoo.com) has sent you a news article.
(Email address has not been verified.)
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Personal message:
Are U kidding me? Wake up Amerikan Idiots - It's called free speech. And you are college educated??
UCLA Alumni Want Scoop on 'Radical' Profs - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060118/ap_on_re_us/professors_targeted
1/18/06
How to clean, guy and
field dress a Rightwinger
Hey "alumni" snob? Why don't you put your chickenhawk ass where your
yuppie repugnican mouth is and volunteer to walk point in Iraq!!?
Get your sissy ass Republican butt on over there!! Youand your kind are
GUTLESS Chickenhawks!!
-Larry Henderson
http://rackjite.com/news.htm
Nothing New Under Their Dark Sun
"But the way of the righteous is not all roses. Before I close I must
call your attention to a problem we have to face, this coming year. The
worst menace to sound government is not the avowed socialists but a lot of
cowards who work under cover—the long-haired gentry who call
themselves “liberals” and “radicals” and “non-partisan”
and “intelligentsia” and God only knows how many other trick names!
Irresponsible teachers and professors constitute the worst of this whole
gang, and I am ashamed to say that several of them are on the faculty of
our great State University! The U. is my own Alma Mater, and I am proud
to be known as an alumni, but there are certain instructors there who seem
to think we ought to turn the conduct of the nation over to hoboes and
roustabouts. Those profs are the snakes to be scotched—they and all their
milk-and-water ilk! The American business man is generous to a fault. but
one thing he does demand of all teachers and lecturers and journalists: if
we’re going to pay them our good money, they’ve got to help us by selling
efficiency and whooping it up for rational prosperity! And when it comes
to these blab-mouth, fault-finding, pessimistic, cynical University
teachers, let me tell you that during this golden coming year it’s just as
much our duty to bring influence to have those cusses fired as it is to
sell all the real estate and gather in all the good shekels we can. Not
till that is done will our sons and daughters see that the ideal of
American manhood and culture isn’t a lot of cranks sitting around chewing
the rag about their Rights and their Wrongs, but a God-fearing..."
Sound familiar? Is that Grover Norquist? Rush Limbaugh? Tom DeLay? George
Bush? Ronald Reagan? Your brother-in-law or any other contemporary
conservative? No, that was Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, in the novel of that
name, making a speech to the Chamber of Commerce. Published 1922.
You can hear the same crap, often word for word all through history and
classic literature right back to The Inquisition - or Cave 233 in the
Neanderthal Valley for that matter.
Sinclair Lewis wrote another book in 1935 called It Can't Happen Here.
The story of a Religious Moron who becomes President through voter
chicanery, and then uses fear and Jesus to first take away the rights of
minorities and foreigners, and then everyone else. He creates a fascist
state modeled on Mussolini where Capitalists and Cardinals support the
prevailing military dictatorship.
Mussolini gets credit for being the father of Fascism, but you know, those
with the money and representing God have been in cahoots for about two
millennium doing the same damn thing for the same damn reasons.
Trenton, trenton07147-bruin@yahoo.com
1/18/06
Exposing UCLA’s
Radical Professors
To the Bruin Alumni Association:
The people involved in this program are louts and your tactics are thuggish. The AP article compared it to McCarthyism and a witch-hunt, to which I agree. Your message and purpose isn’t about fair and balanced teaching, it’s about targeting individuals you don’t agree with. The Salem Witch “trials are so widely regarded as notorious miscarriages of justice that they have become synonymous with mass hysteria, panic, and superstition.” (Microsoft ® Encarta ® Reference Library 2005. © 1993-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.) Additionally, McCarthys legacy is to be remembered as a pariah in my opinion. Your ‘crusade’ against the professors of UCLA will ultimately fail and you will be looked upon with disdain.
A Very Disgusted,
Trenton
1/18/06
My wife is a Liberal
Professor
Come harrass her Mr. young Republican. Here in Tennessee I would stomp
your sissy Repug ass into the ground!! Come play that game in Knoxville,
Tennessee yuppie-sissy pantywaist!! - Larry Henderson, Knoxville, Tn.
1/18/06
Are you a “Christian”
Conservative?
Try practicing YOUR religion then !!! down
1/18/06
You are a bunch of
COWARDLY CHICKENHAWKS !!!
Anna Fierling, anna_fierling@yahoo.com
1/18/06
keep up the good
work!
I've got another anti-American agitators to report:
John Wooden, our former basketball coach. He recruited and coached a large number of negroes, who of course are prone to Communism and anti-American activity (Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, Muhammad Ali, etc.). Lew Alcindor, for example, became a Muslim/terrorist, changing his name and constantly inveighing against supposed racism. It's time we stopped glorifying Wooden around here.
1/18/06
Cheap ass Repugs
1/18/06
Get your ass to Iraq
big mouthed Chickenhawk COWARDS !!!
David Shirinyan, shirinyan@psych.ucla.edu
1/18/06
Shame on you! Change your name, your an embarassment
I cant believe you. At least change your organizations name to show your true colors you fools.
1/18/06
From a Bruin
Gentlemen:
As a graduate of UCLA, both BA (Pol.Sci.) and J.D. and a former UCLA Extension teacher for nearly a quarter of a century, I would respectfully request, and would be honored, that you add me to your Radical list so that on the next Kristallnacht you can come and find me.
Richard Schulenberg, `62, `65
Todd Raymond, t.ray@mac.com
1/18/06
Why do you think
other Republican students are stupid?
Dear Mr. Jones,
After reading your web page and the LA Times article, I would like to ask a simple question. Why do you think other Republican students are stupid? The institutions of education in this country are founded on open dialogue and, no doubt, you formed your opinions in re