Academic"Freedom".

Last week I posted to a piece from Leila Beckwith, an emeritus UCLA Med School professor, about indoctrination abuse on campus and a proposed law to right the ship of "academic freedom". In today's paper, one of the cited professors replies as follows:

I was the instructor for the sociology course on Sept. 11 and its aftermath taught at UC San Diego during the fall of 2003 and cited by Beckwith as a key example of political indoctrination in the classroom. Rather than attempt to refute the characterizations of my course, I would like to note they constitute a substantial portion of Beckwith's evidence of the diminishment of higher education by "political agitators," despite having been leveled by a single student. Much of the rest of the evidence in the essay is equally flimsy. Given the readiness with which critics like Beckwith are willing to accept even the most dramatic allegations of educational misconduct, is it any wonder that many academics are concerned that inviting the government into the classroom is likely to further chill academic speech?
- - - JONATHAN MARKOVITZ Carlsbad

Now let's review that last question:
". . . is it any wonder that many academics are concerned that inviting the government into the classroom is likely to further chill academic speech"?

Err. . perfesser. . . you teach at a UC Campus. You ARE the government.