McGill University has shut down the Web site of a professor who posted pictures of McGill students culled from Playboy’s current "Girls of the Top Ten Party Schools" issue.
The professor, Luc Devroye, posted the racy photos alongside a story noting that McGill had made Playboy’s list of North America’s most bacchanalian places to get a baccalaureate. (Evidently McGill’s ratio of women to men — and the prevalence of French-Canadians, whom the magazine describes as "famously open about sex" — pushed the university into the top ten.)
But campus officials didn’t think the images were appropriate for a Web site hosted by the university. Now Mr. Devroye’s site stores only a message expressing the professor’s displeasure with McGill administrators:
Luc Devroye’s site is now closed. He is still alive and kicking, but on April 24, 2006, censorship and political correctness won against academic freedom. To the students who are counting on my course notes: sorry. To the researchers who are trying to download my work: sorry…. We may be up again one day after purgatory. (CTV)
