The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently allowed itself to be bullied by an anonymous student into firing a faculty member. All because the course content "offended" the student.Here. Here.
It's time to send those school officials responsible for the firing to a remedial course on the meaning of academic freedom and the idea of a university. If not that, then it's time to do some housecleaning to restore academic rigor to the state's blue chip public university.
This could happen in today's university environment only if the sensibilities that were offended were liberal ones. In this case, the sensibilities were on the side of stamping out views inconsonant with homosexual dictates.
RTWT.
I've got some personal experience with folks trying to "stamp out" that which they can't rebut, so I'll be following this one. Byrne suggests that once the media glare winds down, the university may well give the permanent boot to Professor Kenneth Howell.
1 comments:
If I were Howell, I'd be suing the Hell out of everyone involved with his firing, including the parents and spawn of same, as this is about as much of a no-brainer as you will ever encounter.
-Dave
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