My Letter on California Student Protests

While I would likely agree with you, more information is needed. It could be that these professors took their students to the rally for purely informative reasons.

If a civil rights rally were passing by the door of the university, would you be equally appalled if a professor took the students to watch that?

Again, as I have a very cynical view of things I know what my assumptions about this situation are, but they are ultimately just that - assumptions.

Increases in cost, decreases in quality: the effect of public __________.

I think you're approaching it from the wrong end. It's not so much that the professors are indoctrinating students in their political views. If I were to take a class from, say, Gary Wills, I'd expect him to discuss his political views and how they relate to his views on the Founders. No, it's worse: they are using their students as an instrument towards political ends. In other words, it's rent-a-mob.

This wasn't at the NPGS was it? I can see it happening at a local community college, but not at the academy.

Joe Marier,
Good point. You're getting at what I was getting at, but I see now that I could have done it better.
Sam,
No. I don't know what school it was--the newspaper didn't say--but I would be shocked if it was the Navy school. For two reasons: (1) I think there's a basic integrity about that issue there, and (2) federal funding was not at stake.

I agree with you Mr. Henderson,
A professor is there to teach his/her students on the course they are taking. A professors views are not to be extended to his students. If a professor was to state his views on a religious subject, this rally would have been torn apart by so many people calling it bull that he did this and that he was crossing his lines. What a professor believes should not, to an extent come into the classroom. And why does he care? He is not a student.