Here’s FIRE president Greg Lukianoff and vice president Robert Shibley on the attempted censorship of professor Stephen Kershnar at SUNY Fredonia:

While free speech too often comes under assault on campuses these days, President Hefner’s brazen attempt to control a professor’s public speech is in a class by itself. Kershnar should get the promotion he merits and Hefner–or anyone else who seeks to use the office of university president to silence opinions they dislike–should be out of a job.

The whole sordid affair seems to be threatening the Hefner name with the stain of disreputability. Read the rest of the op-ed here.