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Discuss “I wasn't using my academic rights, anyway”

This past summer, the battle over political bias in higher education sneaked closer to home when the Pennsylvania state legislature voted to investigate the matter. But we wake up this week to find that the issue is looming closer than ever.

Last Friday, Long Pham, the chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of Student Senate, formally proposed to Vice Provost for Education Indira Nair that the University add a new paragraph to its policy on students? rights. The language of the proposal is derived from conservative activist David Horowitz?s so-called ?Academic Bill of Rights,? which the American Association of University Professors has called ?improper and dangerous.?

Secondly, Pham told Student Senate on Thursday that his committee was...

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