More "freedom" in the halls of academia.

Brandeis University, the institution harassing one of its professors with a political watchdog, has gone further in its steps toward totalitarian thought control: they've hired a "university defender" to teach its faculty and staff about "racially harassing speech."

Their new hire is a lawyer whose specialization is defending universities against civil rights lawsuits.  He's to present to all faculty and staff on Thursday about "the legal definitions and boundaries of racially harassing speech and the implications of case law on this subject." Much of the definitions that the lawyer will present on are the definitions in the university handbook, and have been ruled, by the school's own Committee on Faculty Rights, to be a violation of the academic freedoms that professors and students are supposed to enjoy.  

So basically, not only have the university administration forced Donald Hindley to accept an observer in his classroom, reminiscent of the political watchdogs the Soviet Union used to place with their submarine and ship captains to insure political loyalty, but they university plan to step all over the First Amendment rights of all of its faculty and staff.

At least, this way, they can't be accused of singling out conservative faculty for harassment.