Indoctrinate U

Indoctrinate U

Indoctrinate U is a feature-length documentary film written by, directed by and starring Evan Coyne Maloney, on ideological conformism and political correctness in American higher education. Among other things, the film examines the use of institutional mechanisms such as speech codes, which it claims are used to punish students who express political views that are unpopular within academia.

The film covers anti-military protests at UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University, treatment of conservative students at Cal Poly and the University of Tennessee, racial and ethnic politics at the University of Michigan and Yale, teaching at Duke and Columbia, among other subjects. It also includes interviews with David French and Greg Lukianoff, (then respectively president and director of legal and public advocacy at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education), Glenn Reynolds, Daniel Pipes and others.

Maloney spent two and a half years making the documentary by conducting interviews on various college campuses and with various thinkers. The film was preceded by two shorter versions, "Brainwashing 101" and "Brainwashing 201: The Second Semester". The two shorts led the 2004 American Film Renaissance festival to select "Indoctrinate U" as its "most anticipated documentary."

In March 2007, Maloney appeared on "Hannity's America" to discuss the film. On April 19 of the same year, he appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal where they showed clips from the film and took calls.

"Indoctrinate U" was produced by On the Fence Films with the support of the Moving Picture Institute, and Stuart Browning, Blaine Greenberg, and Thor Halvorssen. The film's executive producers are Stuart Browning and Blaine Greenberg. Its associate producer is Frayda Levy. It was edited by Chandler Tuttle.

Reviews

A review in "The Weekly Standard" said, "The documentary combines relatively shocking footage (one professor excitedly tells the camera "whiteness is a form of racial oppression . . . treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity") with snappy editing to create a documentary that bounces quickly from subject to subject."cite news | author=Sonny Bunch | title=Academic Thuggery | publisher=Weekly Standard | url=http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/658rvful.asp?pg=1 | accessdate=2007-05-19]

Examples of "intellectual thuggery" in the film is nothing more than "the tip of a disgusting iceberg", laments Walter E. Williams, noting that "Several university officials refused to be interviewed for the documentary. They wanted to keep their campus policies under wraps, not only from reporters but parents as well." [ [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/10/17/academic_cesspools Academic Cesspools] by Walter E. Williams, October 17, 2007] [ [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/11/07/academic_cesspools_ii Academic Cesspools II] by Walter E. Williams, November 7, 2007]

Lawsuit and Website Closure

On November 13, 2007, the official website was taken down and replaced with a notice that read: "Due to threatened legal action from a major taxpayer-funded university, we've temporarily taken down the Indoctrinate U homepage while we assess our options." The website was back up by December 4 [cite news |first=James |last=Taranto |title=Best of the Web Today |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?curr_id=110010953 |work=OpinionJournal.com |publisher=Dow Jones & Company, Inc. |date=December 6, 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-06 ] . Maloney explained in a statement that Indiana University claimed there was a similarity between the university's logo and that of the film's. The "Indoctrinate U" logo was changed and the website resumed operation. [cite news |first=Evan Coyne |last=Maloney |authorlink= |title=No Logo |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010952 |work=OpinionJournal.com |publisher=Dow Jones & Company, Inc. |date=December 6, 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-06 ] [cite news |first=James |last=Taranto |title=Best of the Web Today |url=http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?curr_id=110010978 |work=OpinionJournal.com |publisher=Dow Jones & Company, Inc. |date=December 11, 2007 |accessdate=2007-12-11 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.indoctrinate-u.com/ Indoctrinate U official website]
*imdb title|id=1137970|title=Indoctrinate U
* [http://www.onthefencefilms.com/movies.html On the Fence Films]
* [http://www.thempi.org/ Moving Picture Institute]
* [http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/yet-once-more-political-correctness-on-campus/?hp "Yet Once More: Political Correctness on Campus"] by Stanley Fish blogging at "The New York Times" website, October 14, 2007; [http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2007/10/16/more-iu-coverage-in-the-ny-times Maloney's response]


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