Indoctrinate U Nearing Release Announcements The idea was simple enough: give the world a small taste of the political environment that college students face every day. How many people outside academia realize the degree to which classrooms have become political platforms for professors? Who off campus hears that entire press runs of student newspapers routinely "disappear" because they contain opinions that challenge the campus orthodoxy? Who knew professors could be hounded out of their jobs simply for failing to register with the preferred political party? While campus political correctness has been the subject of magazine articles and books, people rarely get a chance to see the students and professors who suffer very real punishment simply for holding the "incorrect" set of views. Never before have the excesses of the campus power structure been scrutinized in a feature-length documentary film. Nearly three years ago, I teamed up with Stuart Browning and Blaine Greenberg to form On The Fence Films, specifically for the purpose of creating films that ask questions other filmmakers weren't. Our first planned feature-length film would cover the political environment on college campuses. I am very happy to report that this film, Indoctrinate U, is now being shown to distributors and should be released this fall. We are also setting up a campus tour to coincide with the release; I'll be traveling to schools around the country screening the film. Film distributors interested in Indoctrinate U should contact Blaine Greenberg at: blaine (AT) onthefencefilms (DOT) com Students (or anyone affiliated with a college or university) who want to bring Indoctrinate U to their campus can request a screening. Indoctrinate U covers a number of stories never before shown on screen. Some of the stories are bizarre and so hard to believe that you may end up researching them yourself. And if you do, you'll realize that the truth on campus truly is stranger than fiction. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's frightening, and sometimes, it's just plain depressing. We haven't posted our trailer online yet, but in the meantime, here's a bit of a tease. Posted by Evan Coyne Maloney 12 Jul 2006 @ 3:14am Jihad 101 at University of Wisconsin Education At the University of Wisconsin, an instructor who has given voice to conspiracy theories about the culprits behind 9/11 will be teaching an introductory course on Islam in the fall. Posted by Stuart Browning 11 Jul 2006 @ 8:14am Taliban-Boy Denied Admission at Yale Education Unfortunately, his academic career in the U.S. may not be over: A student at Yale University who was once a roving ambassador for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan has been denied admission to a degree-granting program at Yale, one of the student's financial supporters said yesterday. The student, Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, apparently can continue to take courses at the university as an untraditional student in a non-degree program, as he did during the past academic year, said Tatiana Maxwell, the president of the International Education Foundation, which was created to raise money to send Mr. Hashemi to Yale. [...] If he ultimately cannot pursue a degree at Yale, he will probably try to do so at another university in the United States, she said, adding that a number of alumni and others not connected to Yale had come forward to offer to help Mr. Hashemi after he became a controversial figure this spring. "We would definitely try to help him," Mrs. Maxwell said. Posted by Stuart Browning 6 Jul 2006 @ 10:08am