By Jim Brown
February 6, 2003

(AgapePress) - A California mother says when a professor at UC-San Diego attempted to browbeat her son and his classmates into a particular political viewpoint, she did some research and found the school had known about the problem for years and did nothing. In response, she is waging a battle against liberal political and social bias in university classrooms.

Luann Wright says of the five essays in her son's required freshman writing program, four of them discussed the "toxicity of whiteness." Wright used the Freedom of Information Act to study more college programs, and found such brainwashing was not a problem isolated to one campus -- but one that is occurring nationwide.

She recently launched a website called "NoIndoctrination.org" where students can report professors who silence opposing views or teachers who stray from the class description outlined in the school course catalog. She says she has been amazed by the response.

"This site has only been up a few months, and some days we get 7,000 visitors from all over the world," Wright says. "What these students have to say are virtual windows into academia -- and most of us haven't had a clue really about what's going on. These students are living it, but it's time for the rest of us taxpayers [and] tuition-payers to know what is going on."

Wright says the website is a "safety valve" for students who have no outlet to express their frustration with what is being taught in their classroom.

"There's one web posting where a student signs up for Mezo-American art history of archeology up to [the year] 1500, and most of the lectures [deal with] the Middle East situation. Or writing-skills courses or speech courses that are required are so 'agendized' that the specific skill -- writing [or] speaking -- is secondary to the agenda," she says. "So what they're paying for is not always what they're getting."

Wright is hoping that with the pressure of parents and alumni, universities will start enforcing academic freedom statements they claim to endorse.

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