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Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges

posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 13 2018, @08:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the should-have-seen-it-coming dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Earlier this year DePaul University was given the first-ever "Lifetime Censorship Award" by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for its long, inglorious history of punishing and suppressing mostly conservative speech.

The nation's largest Catholic university – which doesn't want students to hear about radical Islam's threat to gay people, vandalism against pro-lifers or criticism of race preferences – has appeared with regularity on FIRE's annual list of the worst colleges for free speech.

[...] DePaul is slashing dozens of staff positions to "place the university in a better long-term position to invest in strategic growth," according to a statement to staff Thursday obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

The 62 full- and part-time staff members are mostly in administrative support roles, and they represent 3.5 percent of non-faculty workers. The statement didn't specify exact positions. The school avoided the ire of its faculty by sparing them any layoffs.

Source: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45753/

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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:49AM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:49AM (#692666) Journal
    The Hadith sounds a lot more central to Islam than the Book of Mormon does. For example, the Oxford Dictionary [oxforddictionaries.com] is of the opinion:

    A collection of traditions containing sayings of the prophet Muhammad which, with accounts of his daily practice (the Sunna), constitute the major source of guidance for Muslims apart from the Koran.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:33AM (#692725)

    The obvious rebuttal is a fattwah up your skinny ass, khallow. You pretending you know anything about islam is as funny as you knowing anything about MySQL!!! Poser!

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday June 15 2018, @03:50AM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 15 2018, @03:50AM (#693320) Journal

      You pretending you know anything about islam is as funny as you knowing anything about MySQL!!!

      Ok, so what about Oxford Dictionary. Are you going to claim they are similar ignorant?