Philosophy 101

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) announced that Bellevue Community College, WA will not suspend a professor without pay after he had used a math problem in one of his classes involving a woman named Condoleezza dropping a watermelon off a federal building. The problem had raised the charge of being racially motivated.

The national sorority Delta Zeta gets under fire after evicting a bunch of its members at DePauw University, IN supposedly on the basis of weight and race. Both Delta Zeta and DePauw University put in their 5 cents worth.

Good ol’ Germany, my place of birth, no more free higher education? They must have caught a drift from the free marketeers. After all, is not competition the best guarantee for the best education? Well, I certainly must think so, since I chose to forgo the free ride myself…

InsightHigherEd reports on an Arizona Senate committee approved bill that would ban professors at public colleges and universities, while working, from:

• Endorsing, supporting or opposing any candidate for local, state or national office.
• Endorsing, supporting or opposing any pending legislation, regulation or rule under consideration by local, state or federal agencies.
• Endorsing, supporting or opposing any litigation in any court.
• Advocating one side of a social, political, or cultural issue that is a matter of partisan controversy.
• Hindering military recruiting on campus or endorsing the activities of those who do.