David French: FIRE Stings the University of MinnesotaDavid French, Director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, writing at Phi Beta Cons: “[L]ast week, on Christmas Eve eve, FIRE stung the University of Minnesota . . . Katherine Kersten broke the story, and then FIRE was all over it, reminding the university of its constitutional obligations and alerting the larger public to a proposal that was basically a magnet for federal litigation. After just a few days of pressure, the university did the right thing. In a letter to FIRE, the university’s counsel pledged that the school would never ‘mandate any particular beliefs, or screen out people with “wrong beliefs” from the University.’” |