Ball State University's Dangerous Idea: Selective Academic
Freedom - Evolution News & Views   Evolution News and Views
Politics NEWS  Ball State University's Dangerous Idea: Selective
Academic Freedom  Courts generally don't like it when public
university administrators pick and choose which ideas are OK to
talk about in class and which are not (i.e., selective Academic
Freedom). But Ball State University (BSU) President Jo Ann Gora
said "damn the torpedoes" anyway when on July 31, 2013, she
promulgated a school-wide manifesto governing discussion of
intelligent design, religion, and science.  Here are the high
points:    1. "Intelligent design is not appropriate content for
science courses."    2. "Teaching religious ideas in a science
course is clearly not appropriate."    3. "[W]hen religious
ideas are appropriately taught in humanities and social science
courses, they must be discussed in comparison to each other,
with no endorsement of one perspective over another."  FUF-
Image_295.gifWhy do it? Why hang