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Profs Demand University President Stop Quoting Thomas Jefferson At His Own School
ByGuest Post November 15, 2016

by Blake Neff A group of 469 professors and students at the University of Virginia (UVA) are calling for the school’s president to stop quoting school founder Thomas Jefferson, on the grounds that Jefferson was a slave owner. In a post-election email to the UVA community, school president Teresa Sullivan included a Jefferson quote saying that…

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Marquette Professor Banned For Criticizing Liberal Teacher
ByGuest Post December 18, 2014December 18, 2014

Student activist group Turning Point USA broke a story concerning Professor John McAdams of Marquette University. The conservative educator has been teaching at the university for thirty-five years, and recently criticized liberal professor Cheryl Abbate in a blog post for banning students from discussing gay marriage in her class. Abbate’s justification for the ban was that the comments would…

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