Friday, July 4, 2008

news blurb...free speech...unless you work for the government

theculturebeat.com reports on Crystal Dixon: "A university is a bastion of free speech, an academic haven for unpopular ideas. Keep telling yourself that as you read the story of Crystal Dixon, an administrator — well, a former administrator now — at the University of Toledo (Ohio), a public university. Last month she was put on paid leave and then fired after she wrote an unpopular opinion in the major local newspaper, the Free Press."

http://www.theculturebeat.com/?p=597