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Legislation to force institutions of higher learning in Maryland to create “cultural http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3810” programs is making its way through the General Assembly with little opposition from lawmakers — who should be defending academic freedom, not crushing it. HB 905, which passed the House of Delegates 122-to-9, requires all colleges and universities that receive state aid to submit a yearly report on what they’ve done “to promote and enhance cultural diversity.” A companion bill sailed through the state Senate on an equally lopsided 41-6 vote.
Campus multiculturalism has been sold to the taxpaying public as a sort of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3531 ideologically and academically diverse than ever.Once respected bastions of free speech, many colleges and universities have turned into dreary politically correct propaganda mills, as case after case chronicled by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) makes abundantly clear.
For evidence of multicultural suppression in action, Maryland legislators need look no further than Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where administrators first looked the other way in 2006 when hundreds of copies of the Carrolton Record, a conservative student newspaper, were stolen from the library, and then joined in the theft by banning distribution of the paper elsewhere on campus. The situation is equally depressing at the University of Maryland, College Park, where advocates of non-approved viewpoints are corralled into so-called “free speech zones.”
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