Senate Bill 5, the "Student Bill of Rights" legislation sponsored by Senator Bill Morrow of Oceanside, requires colleges and universities to ensure that students are graded on their subject knowledge and not on the basis of their political or religious beliefs. The bill calls for curriculum and reading lists that include dissenting sources and viewpoints, and it also prohibits any political or religious indoctrination on the part of faculty members or administrators.

Morrow says there comes a point when educators "cross from teaching into indoctrination," and indoctrination is something he has "a real problem with." As a state legislator, he says one of his main concerns is whether California colleges have sufficient rules and guidelines in place to deal with the problem when that line gets crossed.

...The purpose of SB 5, he says, is to address widespread academic abuses such as grade retaliation, biased curricula, and other kinds of political and religious censorship and intimidation that students on many campuses report as all too common occurrences. ...

The purpose of the Student Bill of Rights legislation, Morrow adds, is ... to prevent conservative or Christian students and others from being treated as second-class citizens on campus.