A Rocky Mount Telegram article on Jane Christensen’s course features one NC Wesleyan student commenting on the controversy, who asks: “When is it right to attack academic freedom?”
Non sequitur. It is not “attacking academic freedom” to report on what is being taught in class, any more than it is attacking religious freedom by saying Methodists sprinkle but Baptists dunk.
The article has some interesting justifications from Christensen, too:
I am anti-globalization, I am for truth and for ending the war and bringing our soldiers home. Those are the positions I take into my classrooms. And I don’t think there is anything anti-Semitic about those views.
I am a professor, not a teacher. As professors we profess and not teach. There is no rigid structure to college. It’s about bringing different ideas to the classroom. If students were satisfied with one point of view or one way of thinking, they wouldn’t need a college education.
