« More Intelligent Design | Main | Philosophers' Carnival X Plug »
February 15, 2005
LeMoyne expulsion
FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) has picked up Scott McConnell's case -- he's the grad student in education who got kicked out of LeMoyne for writing a paper advocating corporal punishment and dissing multicultural education in public schools. Chuck linked to the story below. FIRE's comment is at: http://www.thefire.org/index.php/torch/#5307 I also noticed that National Review Online's group blog -- The Corner -- mentioned the case. http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp Can FOX News be far behind?
Posted by dbzdak at February 15, 2005 2:43 PM
Trackback Pings
Send TrackBack to this page:
http://movabletype.ektopos.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.r120.cgi/1374
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference LeMoyne expulsion:
» 2/16/2005: Philosophical Weblogs, Daily overview from enwe's meta-blog
- Dave Chalmers: Soames Chapter 7: Attitude Ascriptions
Tracked on February 16, 2005 1:56 AM
Comments
Thanks for pointing this out dave. On PBS this afternoon I saw some program that highlighted (and had panelists) political blogs. One thing suggested, by some random famous person, was that major news companies ought to deliberately seek the advice of bloggers before they air stories, for posts and coments in collaboration tend to get at the hearts of matters (that they are regulated and balanced in this sense). Well, the suggestion might well have been that you can enlist bloggers without putting them on the payroll. If the news media had picked up on the intelligent design musings on blogs, there would be a different picture painted indeed. So I guess fox news is pretty far behind. But if blogs can actually make an impact on what is run (as some might suggest) in national media, then I think we should blog about the various virtues of Lionel Richie's "Hello" or how cool Madlib's "Slim's Return" is.
Posted by: chuck at February 16, 2005 4:20 PM