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Generating Sympathy for Jihad Daniel
When part-time college student Jihad Daniel received a campuswide e-mail invitation to see a movie, Ruth and Connie: Every Room in the House, which the announcement described as ââ¬Åa lesbian relationship story", he balked. "These are perversions," he replied to the e-mail's sender, asking that he no longer be sent information about "Connie and Sally" or "Adam and Steve." The next thing he knew, the 68-year-old student at William Paterson University in Wayne, N.J., was accused of violating the state school's anti-discrimination policy. A letter of reprimand followed in June, describing his brief comments to the sender -- the head of the women's studies program -- as "derogatory or demeaning." He took his case to a Philadelphia organization that has become the go-to group for college students and professors of all stripes who believe their rights to free speech have been violated. Since 1999, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has battled pro bono for evangelicals and atheists, animal rights activists and campus conservatives, and others who say they have been silenced by school administrations because of their points of view. The group filed a complaint with the university saying Daniel's rights to free speech and due process had been violated. The New Jersey attorney general sided with the school, but the foundation said it will fight to have the reprimand lifted. All the details here Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-08-28 |
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