{"id":290,"date":"2005-03-15T23:31:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T03:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2005-03-15T23:31:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T03:31:04","slug":"surprises-from-cambridge-to-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Surprises from Cambridge to California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a few days, the University of Colorado at Boulder lawyers stop negotiating a buy-out with Ward Churchill&#8217;s lawyer, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education blog goes a bit overboard in making factual claims about the Foothills College imbroglio over a student&#8217;s paper, there&#8217;s a big online todo about whether David Horowitz has been fudging information about evil liberal professors, and there&#8217;s also the new blogspat or blogrumble between Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9 and Robert KC Johnson, not to mention the fact that Harvard&#8217;s Arts and Sciences faculty express no confidence in President Larry Summers, presumably over his management &#8220;style&#8221; in the last several years more than his specific comments about women in science (which was likely the last straw rather than the primary reason).<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not going to comment on anything extensively until I nail down this edited book manuscript we&#8217;re trying to get out the door, however.  Someone else will have to save academe, or it&#8217;ll have to survive on its own, until then.  The only teasing line I&#8217;ll leave for my loyal 1.63 readers is that my USF colleague Greg McColm has a wonderful metaphor to explaining the piling-on in the Churchill case (and with Sami Al-Arian), much better than the term <em>piling on<\/em>.  But I won&#8217;t spoil the surprise.  Just hope that he gets a book contract to explain it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a few days, the University of Colorado at Boulder lawyers stop negotiating a buy-out with Ward Churchill&#8217;s lawyer, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education blog goes a bit overboard in making factual claims about the Foothills College imbroglio over a student&#8217;s paper, there&#8217;s a big online todo about whether David Horowitz has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-4G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}