A Barnard Tenure Case Hits the Internet, and Petitions Fly

By JOHN GRAVOIS

PetitionOnline.com is a largely unsung frontier of digital democracy — rowdy, omnivorous, often poorly spelled. Last month on the site, which proclaims "more than 55 million signatures collected," a few of the most active campaigns were "Don't Execute Kenneth E. Foster!" (a prisoner on death row in Texas),...