Response to a Non-issue and on Jim Webb

that he isn’t proposing it in reaction to any problems he sees at Virginia’s universities. He just hopes his bill will be a “starting point” for a discussion about how different viewpoints are presented in higher education and simply wants to gather information. It doesn’t mandate universities to take any specific actions to address the issue on campus; it only asks that colleges report what they are doing, he said. The reports required by the bill would go to the to the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and would explain how each university is ensuring “intellectual diversity” through such measures as “policies that protect individuals against political viewpoint discrimination and track any reported grievances.” (Source: The Roanoke Times, January 23, 2007. The bill has been referred to the sub-committee on Higher Education. Once again evidence of the sad state of affairs in my home state! Though Jim Webb did well in his rebuttal to the State of the Union speech. So much so that one columnist for The Nation is asking “Webb for President?“]]>