May 31, 2002

George Washington U. Professors Irate Over Anonymous Campus Hot Line

By THOMAS BARTLETT

George Washington University will no longer use a security company to operate a telephone hot line allowing callers to lodge anonymous complaints against employees or students, university officials said last week. The decision was made after the Faculty Senate twice condemned the service, set up at the beginning of the year, as an affront to academic freedom.

Some professors, however, said the decision had not allayed their fears. Calls are now routed to an answering machine on the