Brandeis Professor in Trouble for Classroom Comments Gets Faculty Panel's Support

A faculty committee at Brandeis University agreed on Thursday with a professor of politics who said Brandeis had violated his academic freedom by putting a monitor in his classroom and requiring him to undergo sensitivity training after students complained that he made racist remarks during a lecture.

The professor, Donald Hindley, who has worked at the university for more than 40 years, likened a Brandeis investigation into his remarks to the 17th-century witch trials in nearby

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