October 12, 2007

Score 2 for Academic Freedom

By HENRY I. MILLER

Whether through love of principle or of lucre, in May the faculty senates at the public University of California and the private Stanford University — my own institution — struck an important blow for academic freedom and against priggish, anti-business Puritanism. By substantial margins — 10 to one in Cal's case; two to one at Stanford — the academic senates rejected proposals to ban university researchers' acceptance of money from tobacco

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