[AndyJackson]

intellectual freedom dictates ...

Since when does academic freedom trump conspiracy to violate civil rights.

[SandRat]

The North Carolina State Bar charged Nifong, a prosecutor in Durham County for his entire three-decade legal career, with breaking several rules of professional conduct, including lying to both the court and bar investigators and withholding critical DNA test results from the players' defense attorneys.

My question is over Nifong's three-decade Durham County Prosecutorial legal career; "How many other cases did he cook???"

[Volunteer]

"Since when does academic freedom trump conspiracy to violate civil rights."

On a campus?

Here is the formula to answer your question:

1. Is the faculty member tenured? If yes, then the student must be mistaken or wrong.

2. Is the faculty member also a member of a "traditionally underrepresented ethic group"? (don't say minority, that might hurt people's feelings) If yes, then the student is mistaken, wrong, or maybe racist. If the student is white and male, then the student is racist.

3. Is the faculty member a white male (actually "white male oppressor" is the preferred term)without tenure? If so, then the student is right and we have to get rid of the faculty member as he is probably a bigot and must be fired.

You will note that no where in this formula do I mention civil right or the law or the question of what is right versus what is wrong. The truth is, from what I have seen in academia, those things don't seem to matter.