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Ohio State University apparently equates conservative reading with sexual harassment. Librarian Scott Savage recommended four conservative books for freshman reading. In response three female professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him.

Scott Savage, who serves as a reference librarian for the university, suggested four best-selling conservative books for freshman reading in his role as a member of OSU Mansfield’s First Year Reading Experience Committee. The four books he suggested were The Marketing of Evil by David Kupelian, The Professors by David Horowitz, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis by Bat Ye’or, and It Takes a Family by Senator Rick Santorum. Savage made the recommendations after other committee members had suggested a series of books with a left-wing perspective, by authors such as Jimmy Carter and Maria Shriver.

Savage was put under “investigation” by OSU’s Office of Human Resources after three professors filed a complaint of discrimination and harassment against him, saying that the book suggestions made them feel “unsafe.” The complaint came after the OSU Mansfield faculty voted without dissent to file charges against Savage. The faculty later voted to allow the individual professors to file charges.

So much for institutions of learning and intellectual exploration. Liberal indoctrination is the rage now days.

Instapundit thinks it's a black eye for OSU. I think it's worse than insulting Woody Hayes. Eugene Volokh also expresses some thoughts.

UPDATE: The time and location of the book burning will be announced sometime tomorrow.

Feminist Professor at Northern Kentucky University Uses Students During Class Time to Destroy Pro-Life Display

I found this via Michelle Malkin. From The Cincinnati Enquirer:

A professor at Northern Kentucky University said she invited students in one of her classes to destroy an anti-abortion display on campus Wednesday evening.

NKU police are investigating the incident, in which 400 crosses were removed from the ground near University Center and thrown in trash cans. The crosses, meant to represent a cemetery for aborted fetuses, had been temporarily erected last weekend by a student Right to Life group with permission from NKU officials.

Sally Jacobsen, a longtime professor in NKU's literature and language department, said the display was dismantled by about nine students in one of her graduate-level classes.

"I did, outside of class during the break, invite students to express their freedom-of-speech rights to destroy the display if they wished to," Jacobsen said.

Asked whether she participated in pulling up the crosses, the professor said, "I have no comment."

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She said she was infuriated by the display, which she saw as intimidating and a "slap in the face" to women who might be making "the agonizing and very private decision to have an abortion.'"

Jacobsen said it originally wasn't clear who had placed the crosses on campus.

She said that could make it appear that NKU endorsed the message.

Pulling up the crosses was similar to citizens taking down Nazi displays on Fountain Square, she said.

"Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it. Some of my students felt the same way, just outraged," Jacobsen said.

Wow. Thought processes (to call it logic would be too flattering) like hers are truly scary. She is capable if justifying virtually anything it appears. Ironic how she makes analogy with Nazis. Her actions much more closely resemble that of fascists stomping out free speech than do those of who put up the display. Apparently free is fine as long as it is her free speech and is in line with her ideology.

One of my co-workers who recently graduated from NKU described her as "whacko."

Her picture is published in The Northerner Online.

Sally Jacobson is the woman on the right according to the newspaper caption. From The Northerner: Online

Members of the Northern Right to Life are camping out Thursday to protect their display of anti-abortion crosses, following the damage and removal of the display on Wednesday by protestors.

The group has decided to press charges against those responsible.

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Northern Kentucky University President James Votruba has confirmed that Dr. Sally Jacobsen said that she encouraged students to practice their freedom of speech by pulling down the crosses during her British Literature class, which meets on Wednesday evenings.

All this ties in quite nicely with comments left in response to a post on tips for attending college by DrHelen.

1.) If you're a black male, you need to understand that your moral status on campus is ultimately determined by the most hysterical White Female Feminist (WFF) present. No one will make this clear to you until you've somehow insulted said WFF, at which point you become a 'threatening' black male. After this occurs you'll be treated like a mental patient and should probably transfer to another institution.

* the above can be mitigated by the presence of a high percentage of black females on campus. Black women can be your best allies because they recognize that white liberal women are among the most bigotted people on the face of the earth.

2.) Generally avoid schools w/ a reputation for social activism and progressive politics. Blacks have no accomplishments that white liberals need respect. You will always be their brave little Sambo, your folks will be assumed to be modern day share croppers, and you will be subject to unrelenting condescension by your sensitive white peers.

3.) Don't bother trying to familiarize yourself with the issues of the day. These are ultimately intended to enable white liberals to humiliate middle and lower class whites. It's an inside fight that you're better off ignoring.
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I amazed at just how well this commenter pegged the present climate of today's universities, but I think much of what he says could be extended to any males and conservatives.

Every day I go to work I drive by Northern Kentucky University. It is a "commuter" college of about 12,000 students 8 miles south of Cincinnati, OH. It has a good athletic program and rarely is a source of bad news.

The Northern Right to Life group should also sue her for violation of their free speech rights. Sally Jacobson is a government employee and she was actively preventing free speech. Simple.