[Tempest]

Errrr?!?!? So your say that a guess speaker can shoot his mouth off as if he's actual staff?!?!?

You're kidding right?!

Alright so this former tool of Sam Nunn and liberal plant gets a job speaking at the Army college for a few weeks and uses it to capitalize and push his political agenda and the press picks up on his "work" to boast it as the opinion of the entire college.

Yet how you manage to equate a guest speaker with a "noble laureate" using his "orig affiliation" is beyond me in this case.

So if Tony Robbins decided to voice his opinion he'd be speaking on behalf of corporate America several presidents and world leaders?!?!?

Errrr.... OK?!

[inPhase]

As a member of a faculty you have a lot of freedom to say what you please. The University trusts its faculty to keep and define its reputation.

I do not believe that you think I was mixing this with noble laureate types. I will repeat though that a noble prize winner gives credit to the place where the work meriting the prize was done.

And yes, if I am at Universsity A, the University answers for hiring me. That is what academic freedom is all about. And the tenure system.

I did not read the paper nor much of the press just what is here, did anyone here read it?

[inPhase]

Another note, faculty and staff are differnt types at a university. Staff is not an academic position. Just an employee.

Yeah, faculty, including visiting faculty have a lot of freedom; unless the U loses endowment bucks or something like that. Then not much can be done if tenured. Basically, the faculty selects the faculty unless you are really special.