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Are the UC Campuses Becoming Leftist Hotbeds?
A report suggests that the UC schools show a liberal bias.

Students at the University of California are getting a biased, left leaning education, is the idea put forth by a report funded by a conservative group called National Association of Scholars.
The report says it’s “concerned with the corruption of the University of California by activist politics.” A condition, the report says, that “sharply lowers the quality of academic teaching.”
UC Provost Lawrence Pitts disagrees with the findings, according to the LA Times.
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"UC's scholarly success nationally and internationally would not be possible,” the Times quotes Pitts as saying, “if our faculty were doctrinaire.”
There was a post in a while back in Breitbart’s Big Hollywood about Louis Farrakhan’s speech at UC Berkeley. The writer, Pamela Geller, mentions the from speaking there.
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Geller says, “Dr. Mark Yudof [UC President] brushed them all aside and insisted that Farrakhan be allowed to speak there.”
Geller agrees with this in principle, but thinks it's "one sided" free speech.
“I am a firm believer in the freedom of speech as our society’s fundamental bulwark against tyranny,” Geller says.
But Geller wonders if free speech is “only to be extended to the haters of America and Israel?”
The conservative writer says: “I look forward to receiving my invitation from Dr. Mark Yudof to speak at UC-Berkeley.”
Uh-oh, Pamela Geller is calling you out Dr. Yudof. This is a test to UC Berkeley's tolerance. Will she be invited to speak?
Predictions anyone?
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