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

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:45PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:45PM (#692890)

    Is that the dick who forced a bunch of actresses to show more flesh in movies and possibly give him a happy ending quid pro go?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @07:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @07:19PM (#693123)

    No, you're thinking of Harvey Weinstein.

    Bret Weinstein was the Evergreen professor that got in trouble with the angry students of Evergreen for ...

    ... well, for telling them truths that they didn't want to hear, I guess.

    I know quite a few greeners (that's Evergreen students, for those not familiar with their slang) and the reports have been pretty consistent: what's an loudly angry fringe in most colleges is the mainstream at Evergreen. They not only dropped off the edge of the political world, but went base jumping.