I don't know if this is true, but given the loony bins that modern universities have become I can easily believe it:

Scott Savage, who serves as a reference librarian for the university, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman reading in his role as a member of OSU Mansfield’s First Year Reading Experience Committee. The four books he suggested were The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.

Savage was put under “investigation” by OSU’s Office of Human Resources after three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him, saying that the book suggestions made them feel “unsafe.” The complaint came after the OSU Mansfield faculty voted without dissent to file charges against Savage. The faculty later voted to allow the individual professors to file charges.

Amazing.

What a bunch of pathetic pussies.

They'd better hope the school never closes and they have to try to make it out in the REAL world. They'd starve.

Goodness, Barbara. Such language. And alliterative too, what with the "p" words and all. ;-)

Or as the Beav would say, gosh...

I'm glad I hid my OSU diploma. And that I stopped sending them contributions because of... stuff like this.

Run witch run, the good folk have come to burn ye.

*chuckle*
I'd like to read that eurabia book.

The world of academia is even stranger than I had thought. What sort of by-laws or internal operating procedures even allow such patently bogus "charges?"

maybe the people making the complaints were mentioned in horowitz's book. if so, its not so simple as conservative vs liberal.

>What sort of by-laws or internal operating procedures even
>allow such patently bogus "charges?"

The charge of heresy, which is essentially what this is about, has usually been defined as whatever displeases those in power.

Mike

ujedujik, How on Earth would that complicate this? I'm named in a book so I'll file sexual harrassment charges. That ranks right up there with "Do you walk to work or take your lunch?"

i didnt notice they were talking about sexual harrasment, that is bizarre. i agree the professors by horowitz probably doesnt constitute sexual harrasment (though i have never read it)

ujedujik, to believe this case makes sense, you'd have to believe that me recommending a book to a third party constitutes sexually harassing *you*.

yes, that explains my usage of the terms "bizarre" and "i agree".