{"id":583,"date":"2006-06-13T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=583"},"modified":"2006-06-13T20:44:31","modified_gmt":"2006-06-14T00:44:31","slug":"a-true-defender-of-academic-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"A true defender of academic freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about Ward Churchill, whom a University of Colorado committee today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_3932642\">recommended be dismissed<\/a> for research misconduct.  I mean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelberube.com\/index.php\/weblog\/academic_freedom_again\/\">Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9<\/a>, whose speech at the AAUP annual meeting today is another thoughtful essay on the needs of universities.  Another must-read. (Incidentally, someone who cannot tell the difference between B\u00e9rub\u00e9 and Churchill is incompetent to comment on universities; someone who cannot tell the difference bewteen B\u00e9rub\u00e9 and Horowitz is drunk on Purim.)<br \/>\nAnd now, if you&#8217;ll excuse me, I&#8217;ll be showering after playing some baseball with Vincent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about Ward Churchill, whom a University of Colorado committee today recommended be dismissed for research misconduct. I mean Michael B\u00e9rub\u00e9, whose speech at the AAUP annual meeting today is another thoughtful essay on the needs of universities. Another must-read. (Incidentally, someone who cannot tell the difference between B\u00e9rub\u00e9 and Churchill is [&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-583","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-9p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}