Posted by Bob on 9/17/2007, 7:26 am http://www.davisenterprise.com/articles/2007/09/14/news/114new1.txt By Sharon Stello/Enterprise staff writer After a group of UC Davis women faculty began circulating a petition, UC regents rescinded an invitation to Larry Summers, the controversial former president of Harvard University, to speak at a board dinner Wednesday night in Sacramento. The dinner comes during the regents' meeting at UCD next week. Summers gained notoriety for saying that innate differences between men and women could be a reason for under-representation of women in science, math and engineering. ... UCD professor Maureen Stanton, one of the petition organizers, was delighted by news of the change this morning, saying it's “a move in the right direction.” “UC has an enormous historical commitment to diversity within its faculty ranks, but still has a long way to go before our faculty adequately represent the diversity of our constituency, the people of California,” said Stanton, professor and chairwoman of the section of evolution and ecology. When Stanton heard about the initial invitation to Summers, she was “stunned.” “I was appalled that someone articulating that point of view would be invited by the regents,” she said. “This is a symbolic invitation and a symbolic measure that I believe sends the wrong message about the University of California and its cultural principles.” [End excerpt] Notice that the liberal definition of diversity has no room for viewpoint diversity. You either march obediently in lockstep, or else, you are silenced.
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Some views are so radical, so offensive, so intolerable, that even the most tolerant of liberals just have to draw the line somewhere. And so it is that a liberal speaker, had his invitation to speak, revoked.
