Academi-size it!
Gotta love Da Fish sometimes, when he uses cool jargon like “academicize” to explain the distinctions between legitimate teaching and propaganda in this tagline to the Christian Science Monitor piece on Kevin Barrett: “That doesn’t mean you can’t bring current political questions into the classroom,” he says. “But they have to be academicized.” Here, Stanley Fish’s […]
Backround on arrests of killers of USF student
Because I only subscribe to one metro daily, I missed a story in early July that described the policework behind the arrests of three involved in the murder of Ronald Stem. It was a lucky break from a break-in close to campus that allowed the arrests, and there is still one suspect who has not […]
Dismissed lawsuit in San Jose State’s education program
FIRE blogger Samatha Harris complains today about the summary dismissal of a federal lawsuit, Head v. Board of Trustees of California State University. Stephen Head alleged that his free-speech rights (among others) were violated in the education program of San Jose State University because one of his professors disagreed with his opinions and reportedly said […]