Anonymous Patron writes “Writing in an editorial in Ohio’s popular Columbus Dispatch, Scott Savage said “I’m starting to feel like the cleanup crew that follows the horses in the parade. I trudge along behind history professor Christopher Phelps as he parades from forum to forum, and I shovel up the humbug he leaves behind concerning my treatment at Ohio State University-Mansfield for suggesting conservative books in a committee…”
He ends with “As a librarian, I have a reading suggestion for the professor: The American Association of University Professors’ statement on academic freedom, which begs to differ.
It says: “Institutions of higher education are conducted for the common good and not to further the interest of either the individual teacher or the institution as a whole. The common good depends upon the free search for truth and its free exposition.” That really says it all.
http://www.dispatch.com/emailme/emailme.php?story= dispatch/2006/05/13/20060513-A13-00.html“
Editorial by Phelpsy =dispatch/2006/05/06/20060506-A15-02.html
Here is a link to the editorial by Phelps who is mentioned in the LISNEWS post above. http://www.dispatch.com/editorials-story.php?stor
Phelps
From the Phelps editorial University policy obliges anyone who knows of a possible case of discrimination to report it, for the obvious reason that secondary parties must be encouraged to refer such matters lest victims suffer privately, leaving the university liable and injustice unaddressed.
My opinion:
The day that recommending a book is discrimination will by a glorious beginning to a new age of censorship.