[Catspaw]

There are two matters going on at once: the Justice Department investigation and this student's threat of a lawsuit. They're two different things. The first is whether the professor's refusal to write letters of recommendation for believers in creationism for a class on evolution, a practice which is voluntary for professors and for which the university has no policy, is discriminatory. The second is if this student has been discrimated against by sitting in on two classes and looking at a website and will most assuredly be filing a lawsuit against the professor and the university.

[Kryptonite]

With all due respect, it's a biology class, not a "class on evolution".

[cookcounty]

If the professor was consistent, he would be upfront about it and have it printed in the college catalog, so that skeptics in evolution (whom he excludes, not just 6000-year-old Creationists) would not sign up for the class, pay the fee and THEN find out about the prof's unusual policies.