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Professor suffers from administration's inhibitions
by Doug Nevins
Staff writer
Op-Ed | 10/7/08
Posted online at 5:49 AM EST on 10/7/08
/ Last updated at 3:20 AM EST on 10/7/08
Unfortunately, the administration continues to push its own face-saving agenda rather than promoting discussion about the issues. As has been reported and editorialized upon in this paper, the Faculty Senate was recently addressed by an attorney of discrimination law at Krauss' request, a move perceived by most faculty and students as a response to last year's events. What has not been reported is that the lawyer, Daryl Lapp, has focused his career on defending colleges and universities against charges of wrongdoing and discrimination, according to his profile on his firm's Web site.
While this arguably makes him a qualified speaker on legal issues affecting universities, it also calls into question whether his address to the faculty is really just an explanation of discrimination law. Whether or not it was the administration's intent, tapping Lapp for the job suggests that the University is defending itself. Unilateral measures such as this hurt the administration's credibility and harm the University's reputation as a place that values diversity of opinion and fights injustice.
While this arguably makes him a qualified speaker on legal issues affecting universities, it also calls into question whether his address to the faculty is really just an explanation of discrimination law. Whether or not it was the administration's intent, tapping Lapp for the job suggests that the University is defending itself. Unilateral measures such as this hurt the administration's credibility and harm the University's reputation as a place that values diversity of opinion and fights injustice.
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Gideon Klionsky
Gideon
posted 2/16/09 @ 10:53 PM EST
In emails I have received from the same Hindley, I have read the following language. These excerpts are all from the beginning of 2009 (that is, for less than one tenth of the time since the "Hindley affair" broke, which in itself came in his 50th year or so). (Continued…)
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