According to today's Inside Higher Ed:
"The Queensland University of Technology, in Australia, has suspended
two senior lecturers for six months without pay because they spoke out
against a Ph.D. project that involved making a movie that involved
mocking people with disabilities, /The Courier Mail/
<http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21885944-5003402,00.html>
reported. The Ph.D. project's film was called Laughing at the Disabled
and involved putting two intellectually impaired men in situations they
may not have fully understood, such as going to a pub to tell people
they were looking for love there. The suspended lecturers spoke out
against the film, saying that the university should not have approved
the project because the men in the film may not have understood how they
were being used. But the lecturers were found by the university to be
violating academic freedom by suggesting limits on what the thesis could
cover."
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
416-736-5115 ex. 66164
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
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