The Freedoms to Speak Your Mind and Define Your Own Ethnicity

To the Editor:

Stanley Fish's rhetoric maneuvers disturbingly from a defense of "academic freedom or free speech" to a defense of "administrative judgment" ("Chickens: the Ward Churchill and Larry Summers Story," The Chronicle Review, May 13). . . .

Fish identifies different situations where the right to free speech can be either "pretty broad" ("a fan at a baseball game") or restricted ("a nurse in an operating room"). Then he identifies the problem of Ward Churchill (and, to a

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