It’s a shame that a biology professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder felt compelled to from a committee looking into the university’s handling of a controversial sociology professor.
His crime? He expressed his view that Patti Adler’s habit of asking teaching assistants to portray prostitutes for a classroom exercise was “malpractice.”
After his comments before the Boulder Faculty Assembly, some attendees said they didn’t think he should lead the committee.
It’s ironic that , a professor in CU’s molecular, cellular and developmental biology department, was criticized for voicing an opinion when the very crux of the complaints about the treatment of Adler center on whether her academic freedom was hindered.
Be that as it may, it probably is for the best that Klymkowsky is not chairing the committee investigating the way the university dealt with Adler, over the course.
A truly unbiased look should be the goal. But someone expressing a common-sense view of the nonsense that went on in Adler’s “Deviance in U.S. Society” class would bring a welcome perspective to the investigation and we wish he had stayed on as a panel member.
