An emeritus professor at Idaho State University says he was fired from his part-time job at the campus library just days after a column he wrote was published in the Idaho State Journal, the newspaper reported. The column, by Leonard Hitchcock, criticized the university’s president, Arthur C. Vailas, as “King Arthur” and said that “when there is seditious talk of political rights and faculty governance, the king must adopt a stern aloofness and wield his authority without hesitation.” The university told the newspaper that it would not comment on personnel matters. Mr. Vailas has engaged in a long-running battle with faculty members over governance and other issues that has drawn criticism from the American Association of University Professors.
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