With school starting, Marquette professor remains in academic limbo

For a while there, it seemed as if the tide in academia had finally turned. Academic freedom, the idea that college campuses should be places of rigorous debate, seemed to be making a comeback.

Before the fall semester began, several schools sent letters to students informing them that they would not condone the creation of “safe spaces” on campus or support the idea of “trigger warnings” alerting students to potentially upsetting material in the classroom. Even President Obama, who in many ways personifies the campus liberal mindset, admonished the country in his farewell address to stop retreating into their own bubbles, including the ones that exist “on college campuses.”