Your comment prompted me to look up Dr. Avalos who represented the university in the film and was apparently instrumental in the blocking of tenure for Gonzalez. I assumed he was a scientist. I am surprised now.
http://www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/avalos1201.shtml
Hector Avalos came to Iowa State as a Biblical scholar.
Now Avalos can add College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) master teacher to his resume.
Only Avalos' master teacher award didnt come as a Biblical scholar, but rather as a multicultural instructor - something he wouldn't have dreamed of when he first came to campus in the 1990s.
"I'm a scholar of the ancient Near East," the associate professor of philosophy and religious studies said. "I never intended to work with U.S. Latino/a Studies before I came here, but soon after I arrived I was asked to develop such a program.
"I have never even take a Latino/a Studies course," he continued. "It was completely by accident that I became involved in multicultural teaching."
Did I mention that I really don't care for him?