Adams State offered course credit to campaign for Obama, until caught
Adams State University in Colorado recently offered students course credits to campaign for President Obama.
The offer has since been retracted, maybe because it was illegal, via Campus Reform (emphasis in the original):
A public university in Colorado offered course credit to students to volunteer on President Obama’s reelection campaign, Campus Reform learned on Tuesday.
The offer, which has since been retracted, appears to have violated the Colorado Fair Campaign Practices Act, section 1-45-117, which bans the use of public resources for “campaigns involving the nomination, retention, or election of any person to any public office.”
Adams State University posted the opportunity late last week on its website stating: “The Obama Campaign Internship (GOVT 279 Presidential Election Internship) will be a 12 week long organizing internship for the Obama Campaign.”
No similar offer was made for students to participate on the presidential campaign for Mitt Romney, who is the Republican nominee for the White House.
Public university offered course credit to campaign for Obama, may have violated election law (Campus Reform)
Comments
This seems perfectly in line with the same credit offerings to participate in an Occupy activity. I seem to recall that some schools offered credit to students who at least visited an encampment and wrote some kind of paper about it. That effort seemed marginally more reasonable, given that it could qualify as some sort of pseudo-journalistic effort or some kind of social science effort. The reelection is just pure politics.
I wonder if that Act was written with this exact circumstance in mind…certainly seems to fit, though obviously the terms are much more expansive.
Indoctrination, plain and simple.
Speaking of which, take a look at Rolling Stone Magazine’s continuing indoctrination campaign:
http://thefinereport.com/2012/08/rolling-stones-indoctrination/