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Article: SOUNDING THE CLARION CALL TO DEFEND ACADEMIC FREEDOM.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- April 1, 2001
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Byline: Linda Seebach
When the forces of political correctness on university campuses ooze out to smother academic freedom, it generally happens in the dark, shielded from public view.
Deans launch confidential investigations, boards accountable to no one hold closed hearings, administrators impose penalties for offenses only they can perceive based on evidence only they have seen. And the accused, who must defend themselves in a legal netherworld where due process is a hollow joke, are further demoralized by the conviction that no one knows what is happening to them and no one cares.
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education believes a ...