Eleven professors at Emory University are protesting a forthcoming appearance on campus by Jimmy Carter. According to The Emory Wheel, they object that it will be like his talk at Brandeis with “sanitized pre-screened questions, no follow-up, and an audience of students clearly mesmerized by being in the presence of a former president.”

The professors have the integrity to declare:

We shall absent ourselves from this staged event, which will be more a political opportunity for Carter to air his biases than an open exchange of ideas. It is unworthy of an institution with Emory’s aspirations, and we have to say sadly that at this moment we are not proud of Emory.