May 11, 2005

Final Day of Finals Blogging

Today is the last day of finals at Tatooine U. The last day of finals really suck, but even more so this year. I've been sick and so I have stacks and stacks of ungraded papers. Needless to say, blogging will be light. If something big happens, I might throw up a post or two. But you might have to e-mail me about it because I won't be checking the news much today. Alright....and now to attack stack number one.............

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May 04, 2005

More Freedom of Speech Loving Liberals

Howie sends along this link about your friendly neighborhood freedom of speech loving liberal college campus. The victim is Jonathan Bean, a history professor at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Cathy Young in the Boston Globe:

On April 11, six of Bean's colleagues published a letter in the college paper, the Daily Egyptian, denouncing him for handing out ''racist propaganda" in his American history course. The offending document, which Bean had distributed as optional reading for a class that dealt with the civil rights movement and racial tensions in that era, was an article from the conservative publication FrontPageMagazine.com about ''the Zebra Killings" -- a series of racially motivated murders of whites in the San Francisco Bay area in 1972-74 by several black extremists linked to the Nation of Islam. The article, by one James Lubinskas, argued that black-on-white hate crimes deserve more recognition.
How does Bean respond? He caves, of course, withdraws the reading assignment, and apologizes.

Wuss.

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