03 February 2004

Dissent in American Universities

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I am associate professor of geology and geophysics at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. I receive teaching evaluations that run from average to outstanding. I have more scholarly publications than half the full professors in my department. But as I sit here writing, three of my four classes have been cancelled. I am scheduled to be moved out of the office I have occupied for the last twelve years into a dank hole in the basement that was never intended to be used as office space. Recent events are the culmination of four years of retaliation, intimidation, and harassment. You see, I don’t have the right politics. What’s worse is that I’m not submissive and I refuse to be bullied and intimidated.

The professor apparently made public politically incorrect statements, which as one would expect were added to his official academic record. It just wouldn’t do to allow professors to express wrong opinions. I suppose that if he doesn’t stop writing articles like this one, it’s the re-education camps for him. Unless the gliterati in Hollywood (who have, as we know, been similarly oppressed) come to his aid.

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Some things are just too much

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Geneva Overholser, former ombudsman of The Washington Post, has resigned from the board of the National Press Foundation because it plans to honor Fox News anchor Brit Hume at its annual dinner in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 19.

Here is the funny thing, the award has gone to David Brinkley, Dan Rather, John Chancellor, Jane Pauley, Barbara Walters and Nina Totenberg in the past! Now you can see why she is so upset. Clearly Dan Rather and Barbara Walters are the pinnacle of objective journalism!

It’s archetypical that Overholser can’t just disagree with the decision, but is offended. Hopefully she’ll be even more offended by what is said about her in the blogosphere.

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