Wisconsin lawmaker plays Big Brother with UW System

Just what are we teaching our kids these days? That is what Wisconsin lawmaker Steve Nass is wondering. The longtime critic of the University of Wisconsin System now has his sights set on one particular class being offered this summer at UW-Madison. Nass is upset that students in this class were given an assignment that delves into the sexual urges of gay men. And the vice chairman of the Wisconsin Senate’s higher education committee warns that that assignment could jeopardize funding for the entire UW System. Nass has written a letter to the UW Chancellor, the President of the UW System and each member of the Board of Regents demanding they justify this course offering, and threatening the legislature could withhold funding for higher education throughout the state if he doesn’t like their answers. Who made this guy the chief of the morality police? Do we want one prude to determine how much the state should spend to educate our young people based on how he feels about one course at one university? Let’s not forget, students who enroll in this course aren’t being forced to do so. Maybe the subject matter interests them. Maybe they will even learn something. Maybe Rep. Nass should sit in on this course, and write his own paper on the matter. Maybe he could even learn something.