Posted by David Bernstein:
Another Example of Academic Open-Mindedness in California:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_09_16-2007_09_22.shtml#1190390252
[1]NY Times:
The appointment of Donald H. Rumsfeld, the former defense
secretary, as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover
Institution is drawing fierce protests from faculty members and
students at Stanford University and is threatening to rekindle
tensions between the institution, a conservative research body, and
the more liberal campus.
Some 2,100 professors, staff members, students and alumni have
signed an online petition protesting Mr. Rumsfeld's appointment,
which will involve advising a task force on ideology and terrorism.
Faculty members say he should not have been offered the post
because of his role in the Bush administration�s prosecution of the
Iraq war.
"We view the appointment as fundamentally incompatible with the
ethical values of truthfulness, tolerance, disinterested enquiry,
respect for national and international laws and care for the
opinions, property and lives of others to which Stanford is
inalienably committed," the petition reads.
Philip G. Zimbardo, emeritus professor of psychology, explained his
objection to Mr. Rumsfeld's appointment as he rushed across campus
to teach a class. "It is unacceptable to have someone who
represents the values that Rumsfeld has portrayed, in an academic
setting," Dr. Zimbardo said.
Res ipsa loquitur.
References
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/21/education/21stanford.html?hp
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