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I received an e-mail today about the latest issue of the American Association of University Professors\u2019 relatively new periodical, the Journal of Academic Freedom<\/a><\/em>. As I skimmed the contents, I noticed that my colleague Bill Watts had contributed an article<\/a> on a lawsuit Butler University initiated a couple of years ago against an (initially anonymous) student blogger, which some of you may recall and which I<\/a> blogged<\/a> about<\/a> at the time. <\/p>\n

The article not only shares a lot of information that was not always widely known back when these events were unfolding, but also reflects with hindsight on how things might have been handled differently, and what faculty ought to do when such circumstances arise.<\/p>\n

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