Mitch Daniels, as an unconventional choice to become Purdue University's president, has repeatedly pledged his strong commitment to academic freedom….See also In E-Mails, Former Indiana Governor Wanted Scholars Silenced (Chronicle of Higher Education)
But on Monday, the Associated Press published an article based on e-mail records it obtained under Indiana's open records laws. Those e-mail records showed Daniels, while governor of Indiana, asking that no public universities teach the work of Howard Zinn, seeking a statewide investigation into "what is credit-worthy" to see that similar works were not being taught for credit, and considering ways to cut state funds to a program led by a professor who had criticized him….
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013
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Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"
This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...
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Professor Olga Perez Stable Cox OCC Trumpsters/GOP A professor called Trump’s election an ‘act of terrorism.’ Then she became the vict...
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The entire “Fuentes/Shooting Star” saga can be found here . For those of you with the patience, I have more background on the “S...
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This is not a drinking fountain. A rarely seen Marcel Duchamp readymade is currently on exhibit at Irvine Valley College. Created a fe...