January 20, 2006

Conservative Activist Admits Lack of Evidence for Some Allegations of Faculty Bias

By JENNIFER JACOBSON

As a state legislative committee gathered here last week to investigate whether Pennsylvania colleges discriminate against conservative students, a prominent activist admitted that he could not back up some of his allegations of bias.

The committee was holding its third round of hearings to examine whether the state's public colleges indoctrinate students in left-wing ideology and treat unfairly those with conservative points of view.

But in two days of testimony at Temple

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