From: bb063@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Christopher J. Crobaugh)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Academic bias (tests)
Date: 3 Oct 1992 21:45:12 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Got this from the NRA BBS...thot it interesting enuff to
repost over here....get on your local school boards..it's 
important, and it's easy. I did, and my campaign expenditures
amounted to ZERO. Just some walking for three aftrernoons to
gather petition signatures.
Anyway, read the following.....it's a situation that need 
addressing.
FIGHTING ANTI-GUN BIAS IN ACADEMIA

	In an effort to better understand how the Second Amendment is being 
taught in classrooms around the Nation, the Firearms Civil Rights Legal Defense 
Fund (FCRLDF) commissioned a study of civics and American history textbooks.  
The study was undertaken by Dr. Linda K. Miller, and educational consultant.

	Upon completion of her study, which found that textbooks are very lacking 
in the manner in which they deal with the Second Amendment (the content of 
the study will be covered in more detail in a future article), Dr. Miller 
submitted the treatise to the Educational Excellence Network (EEN), a Project 
of the Hudson Institute for publication in NETWORK NEWS & VIEWS.

	The reply which Dr. Miller received was a prime example of the sort of 
anti-gun attitude which has become all to prevalent in academia.  In rejecting 
the study for publication, Jean M. Bathurst, then Deputy Director of the EEN, 
wrote "After I read that the complete study will be available from the National 
Rifle Association, I gave the manuscript a quick glance to get an idea of its 
content."  She admitted that she was judging the manuscript more on the fact 
that there was an NRA connection than by the value, content or quality of the 
work.  She went on to write, "Well, I don't want to be unpleasant, but I assure 
you that as long as I am editor of this publication, we'll never publish 
anything that could possibly be interpreted as an endorsement of the NRA."  
She went on to claim that the NRA is responsible for the murder rate in 
the U.S.

	Well, Ms. Bathurst did not get the last laugh.  Upon receiving her response, 
contact was made with officials of the Hudson Institute.  Their response was 
enlightening.

	Leslie Lenkowsky, the President of Hudson Institute, wrote: "Hudson 
Institute inherited Ms. Bathurst when it acquired the educational Excellence 
Network from Vanderbilt University on July 1.  She was the only professional 
staff member we did not ask to come with the program to Indianapolis, a fact 
she already knew when she wrote to Dr. Miller.  We obviously made the right 
decision. . ."  Ms. Lenkowsky went on to offer apologies to Dr., Miller and 
gave assurances that the only criteria on whether "to include a piece in 
NETWORK NEWS & VIEWS is its likely contribution to the national discussion 
of school reform."

	The Hudson Institute is to be applauded for upholding the idea of honest, 
unbiased research.

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bb063@Cleveland.Freenet.Edu  Chris Crobaugh - (216) 327-6655 (V)
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temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." B. Franklin
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