And I was just thinking that we hadn't had any religious wars on TIPS for a while!
:)
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From: Miguel Roig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wed 2/5/2003 3:33 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
Cc:
Subject: letters of recommendation and 'belief' in evolution
Tipsters, given that the subject of evolution and creationism has been
discussed at length in this forum, I thought you might be interested in the following
article from Tuesday's NY Times. Here are the first few lines of the article.
LUBBOCK, Tex., Feb. 2 — A biology professor who insists that his students
accept the tenets of human evolution has found himself the subject of Justice
Department scrutiny.
Prompted by a complaint from the Liberty Legal Institute, a group of Christian
lawyers, the department is investigating whether Michael L. Dini, an associate
professor of biology at Texas Tech University here, discriminated against students on
the basis of religion when he posted a demand on his Web site that students wanting a
letter of recommendation for postgraduate studies "truthfully and forthrightly affirm
a scientific answer" to the question of how the human species originated.
For the rest of the article go to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/03/education/03PROF.html
I've been thinking about this case quite a bit and, frankly, I find it
difficult to reconcile the professor's right to not write a letter of recommendation
and the apparent discriminatory nature of his policy.
Miguel
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Miguel Roig, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Notre Dame Division of St. John's College
St. John's University
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Staten Island, New York 10301
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