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$100 Bounty Offerred to UCLA Students Who Wiretap Lefty Profs

Yeah, I heard this on the way home today on NPR's All Things Considered. Whacked.

Via Boing Boing.

A radical right-wing group has compiled a black-list of progressive UCLA professors and it is offering a bounty of $100 to students who record their lectures; the group intends to use these lectures "expose" the professors as "radicals."

The Bruin Alumni Association posted the offer of the bounty to its website; its finances reportedly come primarily from a $22,000 gift from its founder, Andrew Jones. The move has spooked many of the group's advisors, three of whom have resigned in disgust. One of the resigners is hardly a stranger to extremist politics: former Republican congressman James Rogan was one of the ringleaders of the Clinton impeachment circus, but even he doesn't have the stomach for this.

posted by Fergie @ 1/19/2006 07:08:00 PM