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``It is part of the job of a university to allow students to explore a range of issues and ideas...''

Unless their the ideas of the St. Ignatius Institute.

I wonder if the Pope will rethink this this week.

There has been so much BS shovelled around over the years about the superstitions of academic freedom, that it's enough to make any sensible, open-minded, literate adult puke. Quite obviously, at USF and at too many other institutions of learning, freedom and multicultural diversity are not extended to White Western Christians conservatives (and especially to Catholic conservatives who are male).

Alan Kors of Penn actually has a very excellent article in the current issue of FIRST THINGS which outlines why there is a need for distinctively Catholic institutions of higher learning in the U.S. This is one of the more elegantly argued pieces on the subject I have seen in a while. He certainly seems to like Catholic higher learning a lot more than the president of my alma mater. Or than USF's. It's a disgrace and a shame what has happened to some Catholic and Jesuit institutions during this post-conciliar apocalypse of aggressive neo-gnosticism we have been witnessing. Fortunately, the dissenters are aging and graying. AIDS and strange, obscure forms of cancer will take some no doubt. The devil has given them their 15 minutes in a larger drama. Pathetic.