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October 05, 2004
Hostile Educational Environment
As much as I dislike much of the hostile work/education environment lawsuits of recent years, I found this case delightfully ironic. It seems a feminist professor at University of North Carolina singled out a conservative white male Christian student for criticism in a class email. He successfully protested and the Department of Education agreed that the professor had acted illegally in singling him out. The university has in response to the incident instituted diversity training for its faculty telling them that it is wrong to single out Christian, white, male students and treat them differently. I dislike hostile environment laws, but if you are going to have them then they need to apply to conservative, white, male Christians as well.
Update: The Volokh Conspiracy posted a link to the DOE's letter (warning PDF file) which states that there is enough evidence to determine that harassment and discrimination occurred against the student, but the university acted promptly to fix the problem.
Posted by Pete at October 5, 2004 01:59 PM
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The guy to read for stuff like this is Mike Adams, a professor at UNC-Wilmington. He wrote two columns on this and he writes a lot on liberal academia, especially in North Carolina. He's often a little too abrasive, but he makes some good points.
Here are the two columns and his article archive:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/ma20040216.shtml
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/ma20040219.shtml
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/archive.shtml
Posted by: Dangerous Dan at October 5, 2004 05:37 PM