I posted here several weeks ago on the case of geography professor Karen Murdock at Century College in Minnesota. In the thick of the Mohammed cartoon controversy, she had posted the images up
(behind a curtain) so that students debating the cartoons would actually know what they looked like. She faced administrative threats, icy colleagues, and lots of torn paper as a result. Professor Murdock recently sent me an e-mail to update me on her situation. I’ve posted the whole thing here, but here is the real crux of the thing:
What I wonder is: what is happening at other colleges?? I have to say that, when I first posted the Muslim cartoons (on February 7th, when the story was freshly in the news) I assumed–I just assumed without giving it much thought–that thousands and thousands of college teachers all over this land would be doing exactly what I was doing at exactly the same moment I was doing it–finding the cartoons online, printing them off, and posting them up so people could see them. Why didn’t this happen??