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Unethical Quote of the Week: University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen

University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen ratifies the school’s police chief’s decision to remove two posters from a professor’s office door out of fear of a fictional character in one instance, and fear of the truth in another. Continue reading

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Comment of the Day: “The University of Wisconsin’s Lesson: Ignorance + Political Correctness = Repression”

Michael posted this Comment of the Day (though I am posting it here a day late), discussing the plight of the U. of Wisconsin professor whose “Firefly” poster was deemed to create an unacceptable risk of violence. Continue reading

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The University of Wisconsin’s Lesson: Ignorance + Political Correctness = Repression

As in the disturbing incident at Widener Law School, in which a professor has been persecuted and punished for the imagined sexist and racist implications in his fanciful classroom hypothetical, a theater professor at the University of Wisconsin in Stout, is now being subjected to full-fledged censorship by the university’s administration because of a pop culture reference that it finds “threatening.” Continue reading

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