A professor at a state university has copied me on a note about Greenpeace tactics likely already also playing out on a campus near you. Here is an email from the school’s provost about this "student" group with details removed:

A "student" called me this afternoon asking if she could speak to my class for 5 minutes about global warming (Oct. 13th-21st). It is part of Greenpeace's Project Hotseat. The intent is "to pressure representatives on global warming," in particular [POLITICIAN], partly by getting students to attend a "big event" on the 23rd which will be aerial-photographed. I learned the following upon asking for more details.

My caller, Emily, is a student from Indiana. Her group of 11 are all students, but none from [STATE]. She says they do have an "organizer" on campus, whom she knows only as "Joseph," but he is not one of the 11 going into classrooms. They have not sought or received any permission to campaign on campus. She said that going into classrooms is more effective than setting up tables around campus. According to her, professors around campus have been agreeing to the class presentations, and she named one of my departmental colleagues as an example.

This campaign is overtly political and is asking [UNIVERSITY] professors, In essence, to open their classes to political action. Profs who agree may unknowingly be violating [UNIVERSITY'S] rules against political  activity. Nor can I imagine that [POLITICIANS] would look favorably upon

[UNIVERSITY] letting its classrooms be used explicitly to "pressure" them on political matters.

As followup, the instructor who initially tipped off the school replied to the provost:

Thanks. I called the girl back and advised her that her (Greenpeace's) effort to use class time was inappropriate. Even when I told her that the administration had communicated this to faculty, she still argued with me — it wasn't political, in her view, but just getting representatives to act.

Ah. Nice logic. Keep trying, Greenpeace.

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