Posted on 04/13/2006 4:37:50 PM PDT by dukeman
Ohio State University will press forward with frivolous investigation despite ADF letter
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Officials at the Ohio State University are investigating an OSU Mansfield librarian for “sexual harassment” after he recommended four conservative books for a freshman reading program. ADF has demanded that OSU cease its frivolous investigation, yet the university is pressing forward, claiming that it takes the charges “seriously.”
“Universities are one of the most hostile places for Christians and conservatives in America,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French, who heads ADF’s Center for Academic Freedom. “It is shameful that OSU would investigate a Christian librarian for simply recommending books that are at odds with the prevailing politics of the university.”
Scott Savage, who serves as a reference librarian for the university, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman reading in his role as a member of OSU Mansfield’s First Year Reading Experience Committee. The four books he suggested were The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.
Savage was put under “investigation” by OSU’s Office of Human Resources after three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him, saying that the book suggestions made them feel “unsafe.” The complaint came after the OSU Mansfield faculty voted without dissent to file charges against Savage. The faculty later voted to allow the individual professors to file charges.
On March 28, ADF sent OSU officials a letter informing them of Savage’s constitutional rights. A copy of the letter can be read at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/OSUMansfieldletter.pdf.
The university so far has declined to stop the investigation, saying in its response that it takes “any allegation of sexual harassment seriously.”
“The OSU Mansfield faculty is attempting to label a librarian as a ‘sexual harasser’ because they disagree with his book suggestions,” said French. “It is astonishing that an entire faculty would vote to launch a sexual harassment investigation because a librarian offered book suggestions in a committee whose purpose was to solicit such suggestions.”
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It does not compute. It does not compute. It does not...compute. It does not..... :-0
non story until something happens.
unless anyone is surprised by liberal professors being little b----s
Horowitz is speaking just down the pike at Marietta College on April 18.
How can you be so sure? (I'm a PSU grad, that's why I'm asking.)
I'd like to check out those titles myself.
This one is truly outrageous!
I do too, but I just can't believe we are finding these stories. Even if you do not like someones political thoughts. What does sexual harassment have to do with it. This story is too strange.
This Librarian must have done something else to have sexual harassment charges like saying hey man I can read these to you while nakked or something. There must be more to this story. MUST!!!
Not hypocritical at all, unfortunately, once you decode 'civility,' 'tolerance,' and 'mutual respect' -- especially 'tolerance' (add: 'for thee, not for me').
I'm sitting in a Barnes & Noble near the University of Virginia reading and posting to FR. You ought to see some of the looks I'm getting.
I might look too because I never saw anybody working on a computer in that store. Just a thought. I can't see how a person can see what you are working on unless they practically come up from behind you and then see the shocking horrified website you are on.
un freakin believeable. The staff who made the accusation should be shamed out of work.
Maybe this guy needs some freeper help in the form of a letter writing campaign. Write to the college paper, write to the deans, write to the university alumni, write to the local press, write to support the librarian. I bet the students are smarter than these professors, and if this story got into the school paper - even in the form of an ad - the charges would be dropped and the complaining professors will be thoroughly embarassed.
If you have any info for contacting local media or the school paper I'd like to do my part. I am incensed at this story.
Yes. This is the key.
When the likes of Angela Davis at University of California Santa Cruz is given tenure, I think it should just be cut off from all federal funds - - including any grants, student loans, financial aid, tax exemptions, etc.
Another primary problem here is the funding for the Left with all of their 501(c) tax-exempt corporations. When will the Republicans get the message???
Central Ohio bump.
Write notes of encouragement to Mr. Savage:
savage.109@osu.edu
Apparently these poor professors are under some misapprehension as to the meaning of the word unsafe. I suggest they be dropped off in downtown Columbus at two in the morning unarmed and wearing nothing but their underwear. They would then be well aware of the concept of safety and would be unlikely to misuse the term in the future.
There should be no place "safe" for people with such attitudes. None.
Is there something else to this story? If not, these Ohio State folks are crazy.
Mansfield conservative? Maybe Ontario and Lexington and Clearfork - surrounding towns - but not Mansfield. Mansfield spawned Sherrod Brown, schools so bad that not even a teacher friend of mine will vote for their levies, bombed out economic base destroyed by democratic unions. When I think Mansfield, I think Cleveland, I think cities in democratic ruin. Perfect place for OSU nazis to set up a re-education camp.
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