In an effort to respect Native American remains, the Los Rios Community College District of greater Sacramento has essentially banned faculty and students from displaying images of Native American human remains.
The criticisms, from Professor Kenneth Lawson were made 2 years ago. Why the lawsuit now? Could it be because Lawson went public last month with claims the university doctored his course materials?
After an anonymous student complained about the professor’s comments, an attorney with FIRE’s Faculty Legal Defense Fund helped vindicate his right to make his lessons provocative.
Administrators kicked the Young Warrior’s editor out of student housing and put him on probation for publishing student work critical of school officials.
The University of Hawai’i violated academic freedom and set a dangerous precedent with unilateral revisions to a law professor’s presentation on a legal concept.
