February 25, 2005

Nevada Professor Fights Accusation of Making Discriminatory Remarks

By DAVID GLENN

A professor of economics at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas has demanded that administrators retract a "letter of instruction" that was placed in his personnel file this month and is preparing to seek damages in court. The letter -- which grew from a student's complaint that the professor's lectures had included derogatory comments about homosexuals -- declares that the professor had created a "hostile learning environment" and instructs him to "cease mischaracterizing opinion

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