<p>D at Reed has no complaints – excellent profs. I, however, took a journalism course at the local junior college this semester, and now have the material for an expose. The adjunct instructor was filling in for faculty on sabbatical. She was, for this one year, department head and adviser of the school newspaper. OMG. What a fount of misinformation! Worse yet – she actually wrote a warning letter (copies to admins) threatening to suspend a student if he continued to express his opinion, either orally or in writing.
I questioned her regarding the student’s First Amendment rights (recall, this is the newspaper’s adviser) and she asserted that any student enrolled in her class was under her jurisdiction night and day, in and out of class, and could be sanctioned for disobeying her directive.
The matter was brought to the attention of the admins, who forced her to retract the warning, but I wonder if she will be teaching other future journalists next year.</p>