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Hamline University

  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    1/12/2023

    Hamline Controversy Shows How Religion and Neoliberal Administration Converge to Reject Expertise

    by Alexander Jabbari

    An instructive contrast can be drawn from a 1997 controversy over a frieze depicting Muhammad on the wall of the United States Supreme Court. Since then, post-9/11 Islamophobia, a culture of deliberate trolling under the banner of free speech, and the rise of corporate-style university management have drained the capacity for nuance.

  • SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
    1/17/2023

    Blasphemy Is Not a DEI Issue

    by Joan W. Scott

    Hamline has mistaken the vital imperative of care and respect toward members of minority communities on campus with capitulation to religious censorship, which a university cannot abide.