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English
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Policing 'The Lord's University' : The AAUP and BYU, 1995-98
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Sunstone
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December 1998
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21
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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22-38
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"On 13 June 1998, in a crowded conference room at the Hotel Washington in Washington, D. C., delegates attending the American Association of University Professors' eighty-fourth annual meeting voted to censure Brigham Young University's administration, citing 'infringements on academic freedom [that are] distressingly common' at BYU and a 'climate for academic freedom [that is] distressingly poor'... The national organization's attention was drawn to BYU by the school's own AAUP chapter, which had formed initially as an ad hoc committee to investigate the Farr and Knowlton firings. In 1995, when yet another English professor-- fiction writer Brian Evenson-- was wrangling with administrators over anonymous student complaints about his nationally published collection of short stories, the ad hoc group made the transition into the more formal academic freedom organization. What follows is a three-year history of the BYU AAUP's struggles with the school's administration." [Author]