According to its website[1], Students for Academic Freedom is "a clearing house and communications center for a national coalition of student organizations whose goal is to end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge. " SAF is an offshoot of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (since renamed the David Horowitz Freedom Center). The David Horowitz Freedom Center is a Conservative foundation founded in 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborator co-author and