Victory for Free Speech on Campus: Mississippi College Reverses Punishment of Student for Swearing Outside of Class July 28, 2010 JACKSON, Miss., July 28, 2010—Isaac Rosenbloom is again able to pursue advanced training as a paramedic at Hinds Community College (HCC) now that the school has reversed its punishment against him for swearing a single [...]

SAN JOSÉ, Calif., July 26, 2010—Nearly three years after terminating her over her protected classroom speech, the San José/Evergreen Community College District (SJCCD) has agreed to pay adjunct professor June Sheldon $100,000 in lost earnings in exchange for dismissal of her First Amendment lawsuit. In 2007, Sheldon had led a brief discussion about the nature/nurture [...]

Elizabeth Lakey used to be one of the unenlightened.  As a student of Islamic Studies at the University of Melbourne, she struggled to understand why any woman would cover herself in a burqa.
Like many people I know, I feel a frisson of doubt whenever I see these shadowy figures entirely covered up. I struggle daily [...]

Augusta State Univ. to counseling student: change your beliefs or get out ADF attorneys file suit after university officials require counseling student to abandon her beliefs to get a degree Thursday, July 22, 2010 AUGUSTA, Ga. — Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit against Augusta State University Wednesday on behalf of a counseling [...]

U of I to review removal of religion professor Teacher barred after discussion of Catholic position on homosexuality By Manya A. Brachear, Tribune reporter Faculty at the University of Illinois will review the case of a religion professor removed from the classroom after a student labeled his explanation of the Roman Catholic teaching on homosexuality [...]

How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others By Russell K. Nieli When college presidents and academic administrators pay their usual obeisance to “diversity” you know they are talking first and foremost about race. More specifically, they are talking about blacks. A diverse college campus is understood as one that has a student [...]

Being force-fed a single side of the story is only half of the problem with classroom indoctrination; the other half is silencing the other side. At Chicago Now, Emily Zanotti has a simply unreal story about a professor who was fired for discussing the Catholic Church’s teaching on homosexuality—in a class about the Catholic [...]

U. of Ill. instructor fired over Catholic beliefs The University of Illinois has fired an adjunct professor who taught courses on Catholicism after a student accused the instructor of engaging in hate speech by saying he agrees with the church's teaching that homosexual sex is immoral. The professor, Ken Howell of Champaign, has taught at [...]

Irony of ironies: if he had dressed in a burqa and blown himself up in a crowd of Infidels, he’d be hailed as a martyr of Islam. “Acquittal sought for cross-dressed man in Dubai,” by Bassam Za’za’ for GulfNews, July 7 (thanks to Miss Kelly): Dubai: A lawyer is seeking…

As we all know, the Left and particularly its kudzu-like strangling of all aspects of academia is very fond of its “isms.”  Feminism, racism, whateverism–all purportedly designed to “call out” the oppressive white male and to tear down sexist walls, crash through glass ceilings, and break out of the cycle of oppression.
So imagine my surprise [...]