Should outsiders try to influence the hiring or tenuring of university faculty?

Submitted by Del (United States), Nov 28, 2006 at 14:36

Absolutely. Freedom of speech and freedom of association should be on an equal footing. Students' freedom to attend classes is more curtailed than a professsor's freedom to indoctrinate.

Would anyone stand by while a licensed physician openly advocated a medical procedure which would more than likely kill a patient, a procedure based solely on that physician's obviously undocumented whim?

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