School May Fire Professor for 9/11 Comment
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University of Colorado administrators Thursday took the first steps toward a possible dismissal of a professor who likened World Trade Center victims to a notorious Nazi.
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Academic freedom has never completely protected professors who make unpopular statements. One was fired in 1960 for suggesting that premarital sex among students could be a good thing. Three decades later, a department chair was demoted for saying a Jewish conspiracy denigrated blacks in the movies.
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The state American Civil Liberties Union plans to file a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a Pennsylvania school district that is requiring students to learn about alternatives to the theory of evolution.
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A controversy has erupted after a New Jersey high school teacher expressed his religious beliefs in class, and a student taped it.
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The tragedy of 9/11 continues to resonate for Boston College coach Tom O'Brien, as it will for many Americans, in the observance today of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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WASHINGTON - The Education Department has advised school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia.    The warning follows an analysis by the FBI and the Homeland Security Department of the siege that killed nearly 340 people, many of them students, in the city of Beslan last month...
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A faculty panel has been appointed to investigate claims of intimidation of Jewish students by pro-Palestinian professors.
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An elementary school teacher who says she was fired for talking to her students about peace activism has appealed her dismissal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A community college instructor who was suspended for showing "Fahrenheit 9/11" in class the week before the presidential election is offering no apologies and says he was unfairly punished.
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A NASA climate expert planned to say in a lecture that a Bush administration official told him not to discuss the consequences of global warming.
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Administrators at a high school where eight students died in a tornado were warned about severe weather nearly three hours before the twister struck, raising questions Friday about whether classes should have been dismissed earlier.
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A "surge" of overused words and phrases formed a "perfect storm" of "post-9/11" cliches in 2007, according to a U.S. university's annual list of words and phrases that deserve to be banned.
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Tapes of the final moments before one of the hijacked airliners in the September 11 attacks crashed into the ground in Pennsylvania may be played at the first case over damages from the attacks to go to trial, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
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Critics say the academy may breed extremism. Supporters see a vital role for it in the post-9/11 world.
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The president of the University of Nevada, Reno says "Fahrenheit 9/11" filmmaker Michael Moore "must be allowed to speak" when he visits the campus this week.
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German judges at the retrial of a Moroccan man accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks will consider how to proceed on Tuesday after one of the defence lawyers was critically injured in a motorcycle accident.
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The embattled education company needs to light a fire under sales if there's to be a recovery.