By George Leef
Friday August 25, 2023
The aggressive and intolerant types who now dominate so
many college administrations have no qualms about punishing or terminating
faculty members who don’t bow down to their DEI beliefs. They’ll look for any
pretext to “cull the herd” as one of them said with commendable honesty.
In today’s Martin Center article, Professor Richard Vedder writes
about what I think is the most appalling case so far (one I’ve written about before): that of Ohio Northern University law professor
Scott Gerber. After noting that there is nothing much to distinguish ONU’s law
school, Vedder writes, “But there is one important legal scholar on the ONU law
faculty — Gerber — and he is also a fine teacher. His book First Principles: The Jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas is
a highly praised assessment of an important Supreme Court justice. He has
authored eight other books and has given presentations at
such prestigious institutions as Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and Columbia.”
The trouble is that the school’s best professor disagrees
with the lefty agenda. He’s an undesirable. “Could we get rid of him?” thought
the people in charge. They sure did, including having him removed from a class
he was teaching by armed guards, hauled down to the dean’s office, and told to
quit.
Vedder continues, “ONU law school’s dean told Gerber to
get lost, without any hearing, any due process, any opportunity to appear
before an impartial panel, etc. That’s certainly in violation of ONU’s
established procedures for evaluating tenured faculty alleged to have engaged
in misconduct, and probably also the law. In legal wrangling since then, the
Hardin County Common Pleas Court has had to constrain ONU at least temporarily
from carrying out its plans.”
Where is the university’s board on this, Vedder wonders.
Why don’t they tell the nasty folks who have done this to back off before it
costs the school in money and reputation?
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