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To: Always Right
This complaint against Dini is interesting:

Those are his requirements for giving a student a letter of personal reccommendation.

Doesn't he have a right to decide what criteria to us in such personal things?

If he were to say he'd only give personal letters to Dallas Cowboy's fans, wouldn't that be well within his rights?

Are you actually suggesting he should give a personal letter of reccommendation to someone he feels does not understand something he believes is important?

288 posted on 02/20/2006 11:56:58 AM PST by Dominic Harr
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To: Dominic Harr
If he were to say he'd only give personal letters to Dallas Cowboy's fans, wouldn't that be well within his rights?

No, he is a state employee and as such he is constrained by the US Constitution. Surely there is academic freedom in deciding who to give a recommendation to but when you run afoul of the constitution in the manner you suggest your academic freedom ends.

Of course, Dini could have gotten off the public payroll and stood by his principle that any doctor not adhering to Dini's loyalty oath can not be a good doctor but pragmatism won out over principle.

Such is life.

306 posted on 02/20/2006 12:12:13 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Dominic Harr
Are you actually suggesting he should give a personal letter of reccommendation to someone he feels does not understand something he believes is important?

No, he is asking for an affirmation of beliefs, which is way beyond an understanding.

322 posted on 02/20/2006 12:26:10 PM PST by Always Right
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To: Dominic Harr

Those are his requirements for giving a student a letter of personal reccommendation.
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This is the crux of the Dini issue as well IMHO. He should be able to determine who does and who does not get a recommendation based on criteria he establishes. It is his professional reputation he is putting out there.



936 posted on 02/21/2006 7:11:21 AM PST by dmz
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