On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Scarberry, Mark wrote:
This isn't academic freedom, in my view. Rather, this is nearly the opposite
of academic freedom. The university is not just allowing teachers to teach
what they believe to be the best academic understanding of a subject.
Instead the university as
In Mark's hypo the philosophy departments, and the teachers who speak within it, are
state actors. The question, then, is not whether exclusion of a certain viewpoint
from faculty speech would violate the free speech clause (the clause that UVa was
held to have violated in Rosenberger);
My comment was with regard to the UCLA LGBT center's statement. My apologies
to Michael if I misunderstood his point. If David is right, and Michael's
comment was made with regard to the latter part of Greg Sisk's post (dealing
with one-sided invitation of speakers), then Michael's academic
Shoa is a biblical Hebrew word meaning Holocaust (or more literally a burnt offering).
Kippa is indeed Hebrew for yarmulke (a word of uncertain linguistic origin), What I
have read of the report so far is reminiscent of the 19th century Hebrew poet YL
Gordon-be a man in the street and a Jew in
I tried to respond to Mark's email regarding academic freedom and failed
to edit the paper trail. In light of some of the posts that have
responded to Mark's email, I have modified my remarks to address what I
believe is the core problem here.
Difficulties abound when the law holds that the
