SRJC, CA: Ed Code:

Santa Rosa teachers at the JC in a flurry? lol. Someone placed "red stars and a reference to communist indoctrination on 10 faculty office doors."

The stars, which unnerved some instructors, were accompanied by a copy of a state Education Code section prohibiting the teaching of communism with the "intent to indoctrinate" students.

The culprit? Political science major Molly McPherson of Rohnert Park. McPherson, president of the SRJC Republicans, a campus club said: "The opinion of the far left is presented as fact, with no alternative."

The code's first sentence says: "No teacher giving instruction in any school ... shall advocate or teach communism with the intent to indoctrinate or to inculcate in the mind of any pupil a preference for communism."

And then for the Chicken Little reactions:

"You can't teach social theory without teaching Marxism," Freund said. In all his lectures, Freund said he covers "the best argument for and against" any philosophy.

Marco Giordano, an English instructor, called the code section "antithetical to academic freedom."

"The accusation of teaching communism in the classroom is laughable," Giordano said, noting communism is not illegal and the U.S. Constitution is "indifferent" to both communism and capitalism.

Still, he said, the student Republican's actions were "a little creepy" and a "revival of McCarthyist tactics."