BY JOHN K. WILSON This past week, Georgetown law school fired adjunct professor Sandra Sellers (and suspended her co-instructor David Batson) for an accidentally recorded conversation about racial disparities in student grades. In the video, which was recorded in February when the taping of the class continued after all the students had left the session,…
BY HANK REICHMAN Dozens of Georgetown University students, joined by law professors, gathered this morning to protest a speech by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The faculty members initially took a knee and later linked arms. Inside the hall where Sessions spoke, a line of students sitting near the back stood up and placed black…
BY HANK REICHMAN For some time we have been repeatedly assaulted by exaggerated claims from the political Right that student objections to institutional racism and sexism on campuses violate freedom of speech by imposing an orthodoxy of “political correctness.” Conservative pundits have openly mocked student charges that racist and sexist behavior can be traumatic for…