The Republican-controlled state Legislature’s strong-arm recommendation that the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater cancel Professor Ward Churchill’s recent visit because of his insensitive reference to World Trade Center victims as “little Eichmanns” is mere folly in comparison with the more chilling effect of legislative attempts at “fixing” higher education. To suggest (as Assembly Joint Resolution 15 did) that the antics of one man in Colorado should provide the basis for a systematic review of the tenure and promotion system is as unnecessary as it is dangerously short-sighted.
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