June 1, 2009
Education Association Requires Speakers to Pledge Not to 'Insult' Others
A professor at Florida Atlantic University says she may end her 40-year membership in a professional association, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, because it requires people who seek to present papers at its annual meeting to sign a disclaimer promising not to “insult the rightful dignity and social equity of any individual or group.”
The association also requires would-be speakers to promise that their presentations will contain “nothing libelous or
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