Posted on 04/13/2006 4:37:50 PM PDT by dukeman
Ohio State University will press forward with frivolous investigation despite ADF letter
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Officials at the Ohio State University are investigating an OSU Mansfield librarian for “sexual harassment” after he recommended four conservative books for a freshman reading program. ADF has demanded that OSU cease its frivolous investigation, yet the university is pressing forward, claiming that it takes the charges “seriously.”
“Universities are one of the most hostile places for Christians and conservatives in America,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French, who heads ADF’s Center for Academic Freedom. “It is shameful that OSU would investigate a Christian librarian for simply recommending books that are at odds with the prevailing politics of the university.”
Scott Savage, who serves as a reference librarian for the university, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman reading in his role as a member of OSU Mansfield’s First Year Reading Experience Committee. The four books he suggested were The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.
Savage was put under “investigation” by OSU’s Office of Human Resources after three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him, saying that the book suggestions made them feel “unsafe.” The complaint came after the OSU Mansfield faculty voted without dissent to file charges against Savage. The faculty later voted to allow the individual professors to file charges.
On March 28, ADF sent OSU officials a letter informing them of Savage’s constitutional rights. A copy of the letter can be read at www.telladf.org/UserDocs/OSUMansfieldletter.pdf.
The university so far has declined to stop the investigation, saying in its response that it takes “any allegation of sexual harassment seriously.”
“The OSU Mansfield faculty is attempting to label a librarian as a ‘sexual harasser’ because they disagree with his book suggestions,” said French. “It is astonishing that an entire faculty would vote to launch a sexual harassment investigation because a librarian offered book suggestions in a committee whose purpose was to solicit such suggestions.”
ADF is a legal alliance defending the right to hear and speak the Truth through strategy, training, funding, and litigation.
I'd bet that the professors who felt "unsafe" have not even read those books. It is the ideas that are unsafe and they wouldn't want to be exposed to such ideas.
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The left only believes in free speech and free press when their views are being expressed -- everything else is a form of "hate"!
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Apparently, being conservative is now a crime. Send in the thought police! Time for a little re-education.
THis is the first I've heard of it. These people sound totally unhinged to me.
unbelievable!
fags at work
Seriously, there's nothing else to do in mansfield...............................
the professors were just bored.
These charges are probably not from women but fags.
You are right about Mansfield. My comment is not clear; the County is bigtime conservative.
The idea that government is subsidizing and controlling higher education is ridiculous.
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I remember when I went into a Borders Bookstore in Massachusetts to look for a copy of "Unfit for Command". When I asked, the clerk looked like I put a dog turd under his nose. He smugly looked up and said "No, we don't have it..."
So I said, "Fine. I would like to order a copy."
His face was...priceless!
Better to have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother at OSU!
Of course the same could be said of M and MSU.
Shaking my head over this one... belongs in the same bin as "1+1=3."
If these book suggestions make them feel unsafe, then God help them if they should actually get into a logical debate with anyone. They'd probably pee their pants in fear.
Something's missing from this story, like why an investigation for sexual harassment would make sense. Something has been omitted here which is needed to understand what's going on.
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