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Thunder from the campus right: Conservative students put academic freedom to new kinds of doctrinal tests

At the University of North Carolina, three incoming freshmen sue over a reading assignment they say offends their Christian beliefs. In Colorado and Indiana, a national conservative group publicizes student allegations of left-wing bias by professors. Faculty get hate mail and are pictured in mock “wanted” posters; at least one college says a teacher received a death threat. The episodes…all touch on an issue of growing prominence on college campuses.