University of Nebraska disciplines assistant professor who called student a 'neo-fascist'

Omaha World-Herald:
University of Nebraska officials announced Friday that new steps are being taken in relation to an incident involving a conservative student Aug. 25.

NU President Hank Bounds said the graduate student-lecturer who called a conservative student a “neo-fascist” for recruiting for Turning Point USA would no longer teach at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The World-Herald further learned that the lecturer, Courtney Lawton, will be released from employment completely when her contract expires at the end of the school year.

Bounds also sent Gov. Pete Ricketts and Nebraska’s state senators a letter that cites various actions that reflect “the importance of open conversation that respects each other’s differences” on campus.

One of those is to have Gallup do a survey to assess the campus environment for people of diverse political backgrounds on NU’s campuses in Omaha, Lincoln and Kearney.

NU also released emails as a result of public records requests by Conservative Review and other organizations. Some emails indicated UNL public relations staffers were eager to spin the story and “have a surrogate(s) submit op-eds” to the Omaha World-Herald and Lincoln Journal Star as “aggressive counter-measures” to coverage of the matter.

One of those staffers, UNL news director Steve Smith, was no longer employed as of Friday.

“I was not asked by anyone to leave the university,” Smith said. “I did, however, decide to resign.”

Bounds’ letter said: “Some of the emails reflect unprofessional behavior by our employees and I apologize.”
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It is rare to see a university that is open to ideological diversity these days.  Too many of them attempt to stifle the speech of people who do not embrace liberal orthodoxy.   They tend to act more like indoctrination centers than learning centers.

In another story, a student challenges a teacher in his high school on the issue of cop killings and uses FBI statistics which the teacher calls racists.  It is an example of how some liberals are immune to the facts that do not support their agenda.

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