Free speech crackdown on campus
By Margery Eagan
This is http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3126 stuff.
Yet it’s been tolerated on college http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2596 for years.
Suppose it moved from http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1071 to your office, your company? Suppose it threatened your job?
Here’s the plot. Brandeis University, named after Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis (a famous champion of free speech), just insisted on sensitivity training and threatened to fire a professor after one student – maybe two or three – complained about the professor’s speech. In a Latin American politics class, professor Donald Hindley, 74, who’s taught at Brandeis for nearly 50 years, used a word he’s used many times – “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1236” – to explain the nastiness aimed at Mexican immigrants who entered the United States over the Rio Grande.
The student(s) complained. Anonymously.The administration launched an investigation into his “discriminatory” remarks, never telling Hindley what those remarks were. In one statement provost Mary Kraus praised the “courage” of the anonymous student(s) “to speak up against discrimination.” She also said three students suffered “significant emotional trauma” as a result of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2002 the remarks.