Mount Holyoke's Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts has announced its spring 2010 speaker series.
The theme is the Limits of the Law. But the speakers have nothing to do with the Constitution (as you might expect), and everything to do with pushing a liberal agenda.
Check out the three speakers Mount Holyoke will bring to campus this semester, and note the left-leaning bias prevalent in all three speakers.
- Racial Literacy or Postracial Blindness: Where Should the Law Go From Here? -- "The highly publicized encounter last summer between a black professor at Harvard and a white police officer precipitated a national focus on race, stereotypes, and civil rights. Professor Guinier will discuss the subtle and complex ways that race actually works in the 21st century and what we can do to change that dynamic."
- 3,000 Years Away from Home: How Wrongful Convictions Impact Family and Society -- "In the past 20 years, DNA exonerations have freed over 240 innocent prisoners who served more than 3,000 years of imprisonment. Betty Anne Waters will tell the story of one of these exonerated prisoners, her brother Kenneth Waters, whose wrongful conviction shattered her family. Maddy deLone, co-director of the Innocence Project, will share her background as an advocate for criminal justice reform and DNA testing."
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals -- "The Bush Administration's anti-terrorism policy of harsh interrogations, indefinite detentions, secret CIA prisons, and warrantless wiretappings led to wrangling by administration officials and lawyers over the definition of torture and the Geneva Conventions. At stake here is the very idea of Presidential power and the limits of legal protection. Drawing on the research done for her book 'The Dark Side,' Jane Mayer will discuss the behind-the-scenes policymaking in order to demonstrate how legal abstractions become a frightening reality."
Is the bias coincidence? Hardly. Mount Holyoke, like colleges across the country, suffers from an indefensible bias in campus speaker programs.
It's time for someone to hold them accountable. Keep reading to learn how.
