Scholarly Study Destroys Plain Dealer Lies About Senate Bill 1

A new scholarly study has delivered another crushing blow to the Cleveland Plain Dealer's war on reality.

Editor and Publisher Chris Quinn has repeatedly declared, without any evidence, “We don’t really have any problem” with radical leftist bias on college campuses.
 
Quinn has been absurdly relentless in denying the obvious.
 
He called it a “silly premise that college campuses have become hotbeds of liberalism hostile to anyone with a conservative viewpoint.”
 
He also called it a “silly premise that campuses ‘indoctrinate’ youth into dangerous liberal thinking.”
 
The facts show what everyone with a lick of common sense knows:  Quinn is just plain wrong. 
 
Quinn accused me and other lawmakers of “lying as a strategy” by voting into law my Senate Bill 1, which guarantees freedom of speech for all college students in Ohio.
 
But the facts show it is Quinn who is either lying or in denial.
 
Two professors published their findings this week in the Wall Street Journal, after using “a massive database” that “shows college courses dealing with race and the Middle East lean sharply left.”
 
Professors Jon A. Shields and Yuval Avnur wrote this week:

“Like most of our academic colleagues, we aren’t supporters of Donald Trump. But we have to admit he has our profession’s number on a critical point—and we’ve conducted a study that proves it."

"College teaching is politically one-sided to an extreme, and until professors change our ways, we won’t recover the trust of the public.”
 
Their study used the “Open Syllabus Project, a nonprofit organization that maintains a database of more than 27 million syllabi scraped from the web.”
 
They found the literature assigned to students overwhelmingly came from the far left – and that their critics were almost never assigned.
 
The professors concluded:

“It’s hard for us to see a path toward restoring public confidence in the university that doesn’t involve curricular reform. If we shut out the views of half or more of the population, we shouldn’t be surprised when the democratic process leads to the diminution of our subsidies and other privileges.”
 
Senate Bill 1 is designed to ensure professors and students have the freedom to bring all perspectives to the table – left, right, and middle.
 
Quinn squeals that threatens to “turn college campuses into almost fascist states.”
 
What he really means is he is afraid the truth will set students free from the leftist cult the media is trying to salvage in academia.