• Sunday, February 19, 2012
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Southern Illinois U. Professor Demands Apology for 'Academic Terrorist' Label

The accusations continue to fly at Southern Illinois University.

A linguistics professor on the university’s Carbondale campus has alleged that the president of the system, Glenn Poshard, referred to her and others as “academic terrorists” who “lay in the weeds and throw bombs at everybody,” according to the Daily Egyptian, the campus’s student newspaper. The professor, Joan Friedenberg, is demanding an apology.

This is the latest chapter in a bizarre and long-running controversy concerning allegations of plagiarism, extortion, student-professor sex, and oh so much more.