Sometimes I agree with Barbara Kay and sometimes I don't -- I suppose that is proof she is worth reading. Anyway, today she writes on the curious story of a faculty member at Wilfrid Laurier University who lost his job because of being scientifically right but politically wrong. If true (and I am sure there is another side to the story -- on the other hand WFU paid damages) it makes WLU sound like a two-bit college in rural America.
Anyway, here is part of the story and a link to the rest:
Mr. diCarlo's subsequent crime was to stand his intellectual ground. It wasn't a moral issue or a contentious empirical debate: One side represented the best of what we know from science, the other was demonstrably untrue. Nevertheless, the "offended" students knew their "rights": They complained.
And hey, presto, before you can say "craven university administration," diCarlo had lost the tenured job for which he was already short-listed. (He has since won damages in a grievance and is happily tenure-bound at a school that appreciates him.)
Link here:
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=3a3f45ca-d747-4ab5-8843-7d3a16133e90
1 comment:
I can't believe the guy lost his job over ths. It does make them look like a two-bit school. I wonder when the on-campus bonfire to burn heretic books is happening?
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