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What school denied him? Because if was a public institution, bad on them. But if it was a private university, then that's their right. Feel free to disagree wi

• akerro 11y ago
  >I recently (and successfully) defended my doctoral dissertation in social psychology at Arizona State University (don't call me Dr. until the degree confers in December, 2015, or just don't call me Dr...)
• ocfx 11y ago
  Whether they can or not is kind of irrelevant since our legal system isn't based on right or wrong otherwise we would just take every law at current face value and not try to lobby against them. I'm curious whether people feel that regardless of legal right if private universities SHOULD be able to do that.
• waterlesscloud 11y ago
  Reading your link, it's not so much a matter of public vs private schools as it is whether or not they receive public funding. And the vast majority of private universities do.
  • kazagistar 11y ago
    I would say that the relevant question to this article would be if they should be accepted into the broader academic journals and conferences if they are explicitly biased. They have every right to enforce a bias, but then they have no right to be thought of as scientists and researchers by the public at large.
• zeveb 11y ago
  > But if it was a private university, then that's their right. Feel free to disagree with them, Oh, of course! But disagreement does include saying, 'they have a right to do this, but they are wrong to do so.'
• hackuser 11y ago
  Did any school deny him on that basis? From what I read, there is no evidence.
  • rdancer 11y ago
    If they brought it up in an interview at all, that means that it was part of their decision. The way he portraits the line of questioning, his having quite narrowly dissenting opinions (that is to say, any own opinions at all) was a dealbreaker.
    • tbrownaw 11y ago
      If they brought it up in an interview at all, that means that it was part of their decision. Not necessarily. It could be something they thought might lead somewhere interesting ("Do you know about $foo? Cool, so what's your opinion on this detail?"; the first question is only useful to know if you can ask the second questions). It could be stalling for time while they try to come up with something useful to ask. It could be following up on some earlier comment, according to the rules of polite small talk. Those last two aren't something a skilled interviewer would do, but then I don't think most interviewers are skilled. They also don't fit with the original post, but the first one might.
      • rdancer 11y ago
        In general, you may be right, but is this really what could be happening here — how can the fact that future colleagues consider the interviewees political views reactionary be used to set up any licit line of questioning?
• daodedickinson 11y ago
  There are, what, less than 10 private universities in the United States? Wyoming Catholic, Grove City, Hillsdale, a few more? All the rest take government funds and would be subject to legal action under a non-Alinskyite presidential administration.
• V-2 11y ago
  Even then such rules should be specified upfront.