Repress U

by MICHAEL GOULD-WARTOFSKY

[from the January 28, 2008 issue of The Nation]

Free-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new
security curriculum. Private security contractors. Welcome to the
homeland security campus.

From Harvard to UCLA, the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest
watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors, having turned
their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism
prevention"--as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives
bill of the same name--have set out to reconquer that traditional
hotbed of radicalization, the university.

Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to
heel is a seven-step mission:

(Details of the article can be found at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080128/gould-wartofsky