2008 Woodie Awards
Towson gets 'indoctrinated'
Student groups to sponsor screening of 2007 documentary
Tyler Waldman
Arts | 4/28/08
The College Libertarians of Towson and Towson Students for Sensible Drug Policy will sponsor a screening of the 2007 documentary "Indoctrinate U."
The free screening will start at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Van Bokkelen Auditorium in Van Bokkelen Hall.
The film, directed by Evan Coyne Maloney, discusses suppression of free speech on college campuses.
In the film, Maloney visits college campuses around the country to expose how he believes academia can stifle free discourse.
Department of economics professor Howard Baetjer will lead a discussion after the film.
Baetjer originally found the film through his involvement in the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and then brought it to the sponsoring clubs.
"American universities should be places where people are free to express their opinions and beliefs - even obnoxious opinions and wrongheaded beliefs," he said. "Then, of course, others should be free to respond with different and better opinions and beliefs."
Baetjer said he hopes the film is a cautionary tale for students.
"I hope it's not important to students at Towson but I think it's important for students to hear," he said. "Freedom of expression is bloody important and if we lose it we're in trouble."
The free screening will start at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Van Bokkelen Auditorium in Van Bokkelen Hall.
The film, directed by Evan Coyne Maloney, discusses suppression of free speech on college campuses.
In the film, Maloney visits college campuses around the country to expose how he believes academia can stifle free discourse.
Department of economics professor Howard Baetjer will lead a discussion after the film.
Baetjer originally found the film through his involvement in the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and then brought it to the sponsoring clubs.
"American universities should be places where people are free to express their opinions and beliefs - even obnoxious opinions and wrongheaded beliefs," he said. "Then, of course, others should be free to respond with different and better opinions and beliefs."
Baetjer said he hopes the film is a cautionary tale for students.
"I hope it's not important to students at Towson but I think it's important for students to hear," he said. "Freedom of expression is bloody important and if we lose it we're in trouble."
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