Campus Reform: Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Last week, CampusReform.org's videos (see one, two, and three) of LSU professor Bradley Schaefer mocking, belittling, and attacking students outraged people across the country. The university's defense of the professor and his behavior in the media and online should equally outrage people this week.

LSU's response is simple. In a statement on Facebook, it concedes that the professor insulted and intimidated students, but calls the behavior "energetic" and "provocative." Then it claims such behavior is acceptable because the professor insulted liberal and conservative students. (The National Association of Scholars skewered these arguments nicely.)

Now LSU and Professor Schaefer have the audacity to play victim. Yesterday on Twitter, LSU's PR department accused CampusReform.org of "playing tricks" and being "misinformed." When questioned by CampusReform.org and the National Association of Scholars, LSU's response was a stonewall: post more video; we won't talk until you do.

LSU's administration understands its last hope is to muddy a perfectly clear situation. Louisianans are rightly outrighted as are thousands more across the country. So LSU will try to confuse, stonewall, blockade, and attack CampusReform.org Don't let them.

Hold them accountable on Facebook and Twitter instead. Let's ask these questions of LSU on Twitter and Facebook -- these questions the university desperately does not want to answer.

1. Do you support a professor telling students "blood will be on your hands" if they don't support his political policy?
2. Do you support a professor telling a student his policy is "stupid," "wrong," and like an ostrich hiding in the sand?
3. Do you support a professor rolling his eyes and mocking a student who dares disagree with him politically in front of the class?
4. Do you support a professor who shouts down a student who disagrees with him politically so much that other students intervene?
5. Do you support a professor warning students their future children will likely die because of their political opinions?

No sane person -- or rational university -- would answer "yes" to any of those questions. But these are the things LSU's Professor Schaefer did in class and on videotape.

It's no surprise LSU wants to make this story about something other than a professor and his outrageous behavior. Don't let them.

The story is simple. An LSU professor behaved badly because he didn't like the way some students thought about politics. Why is that so hard for the university to admit?