http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/08/17/ccu
He Didn’t Worship the Market
When Colorado Christian University notified Andrew Paquin, an assistant
professor of global studies, that his contract would not be renewed, he
knew that not being sufficiently guided by Christ wasn’t the problem.
But it might have been that he wasn’t sufficiently capitalist.
“Throughout the process it became evident that the issue of capitalism,
the use of a couple of different books were at the core” of President
William L. Armstrong’s “discomfort” with him, Paquin said. Those
included works by animal-rights ethicist Peter Singer and Jim Wallis,
author of God’s Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and The Left
Doesn’t Get It. Once Paquin was notified that he couldn’t continue on as
a professor, students, faculty and alumni started petitions and
contacted The Rocky Mountain News, which broke the story this week and
sparked a torrent of anger on the blogosphere.
