It’s obvious that what upset students about Alison Greene’s class wasn’t that “she had the audacity to reveal her opposition to the Iraq war to students in a large lecture class” ? it was the way in which she did it, something the Indy glossed over:
“I started framing things in terms of the offensive,” she says, by describing the effects of the U.S.-led invasion and alerting students to Web sites listing Iraqi casualties. She showed a video about United Nations sanctions imposed after the Gulf War, and wrote an exam question asking students to explore the logic of the Bush Administration’s claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
(By the way, it wasn’t just one exam question; it was three. Funny that this fact somehow escaped Solow’s attention since she included “grading” as something that would offer “solid proof” of bias.)
Read more about the course here, including the exam questions, and determine for yourself whether the students’ reactions were merited.
