Should Wash U tolerate homophobic professors?
A question asked by a contributor in the current issue of Wash U's Student Life, about Prof. Katz.
Katz is a clown. More later, but it's academic freedom. There is no reason nor justification to censor his views on or off Wash U's site.
Posted by ArchPundit on Mon., Sep 26, 2005 at 2:26 PMI'm going with AP on this one. While I find this professors' views abhorrent, I think that tolerance for unpopular opinions is a critical part of a free society.
Posted by rev_matt_y on Mon., Sep 26, 2005 at 2:38 PMWho really cares what an astro-physicist thinks about gay rights, anyway?
He's a tenured full professor, so he can't realistically be fired based on this. Maybe these essays violate the intent of the University web policy; but who is going to enforce that consistently? Plenty of student web spaces probably have violations as well, albeit not so high-profile.
Larry's right - it's an academic freedom matter.
Posted by Joe Frank on Tue., Sep 27, 2005 at 10:50 AM
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