An adjunct professor at Century College in Minnesota, who despite being pressured not to post them in the first place, has been failed by administrators who turned the other way when copies of the Muhammad cartoons she displayed on a faculty bulletin board were repeatedly torn down.
Professor Karen Murdock says she posted the cartoons on a bulletin board used by faculty so members so the campus community could see what the global controversy was all about. Mudrock posted the drawings, related newspaper articles and blank comment sheets on a bulletin board near her office where faculty members post items of interest. She says her immediate boss eventually took down the display and she was directed not to replace it.
"We are a college. We are supposed to be a forum for the free exchange of ideas. If we can't talk about this controversy at a college, where are we supposed to talk about it? We are supposed to be able not merely to deal with controversy but actually to welcome it," Murdock said.
Surprisingly to us, Accuracy in Academia's Campus Report is so far mum on the issue. We hope they will investigate further and expose any wrongdoing.
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