Volume 96, Issue 25
Thursday October 10, 2002
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LAST UPDATED: Thursday, October 10, 2002 - 2:45 p.m.

Is censorship corrupting the heart of academia?

In Tampa Bay, Florida, a fiery debate is heating up between university administrators – who fear a faculty member is supporting a front for a Palestinian terrorist network – and a once-respected computer science professor who has, for most of his life, tried to check his politics at the door.

Censorsh-t at Concordia prompts debate

For a little over a year, the phrase "Sept. 11" has been inconspicuously taking on a life of its own. When uttered, it demands little explanation around the globe.

These days a new September phrase is clamouring for a foothold among Canadians plugged in to the university-campus-activist scene.

Academic freeze

Most Canadians prefer to think of our ties to the United States as less binding than they truly are.

One way of explaining our relationship is to liken it to us staying the night on America's proverbial couch, as opposed to sleeping naked in its proverbial bed.