[Alberta's Child]

For all their idiotic pontificating about "academic freedom," I know from personal experience that there are few institutions more willing to sell their souls for the almighty dollar than American universities.

[Grampa Dave]

Most Canadian Universities would sell their souls for the soon to be devalued Canadian $'s.

[Jeff Head]

That's right. That's why if this continues, it will be successful.

They have no strength to their misbegotten and vile convictions. This episode just proves both points ... their convictions are vile ... and they have no strength to them other than to corrupt our youth while they sit in their ivory towers spewing this vomit.

[mathurine]

Academic freedom is usually understood to relate primarily to the classroom and research aspects of the subject a professor teaches. If this nitwit anthropologist postulated that the first inhabitants of America were marxist transvestites, academic freedom would protect his right to do so. However, IMHO academic freedom does not protect him if he chooses to make a political diatribe at a rally. Suppose that a coach, who is also a faculty member in the physical education department, says at a rally before a basketball game that he expects the team to deliver a million mogadishus, and other grotesqueries. Would the university tolerate that? Of course not. President Bollinger needs to find other work. A man who probably squats to pee is not up to leadership in this day and age.