Treatment Of Faculty Member Tests Free Speech And Academic Freedom

Subramanian Swamy is an outspoken man. That is what got him into trouble last July. While teaching economics at the Harvard University summer school, he penned a sharply worded column for a newspaper in India. Now, the case has devolved into an imbroglio about hate speech and academic freedom. The professors who led the charge against Swamy are buried in angry e-mails from his supporters in India. Others are torn, despising both Swamy’s column and the way he was relieved of his duties. Read more at:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012/01/02/harvard_summer_school_professor_dismissed_by_faculty_after_controversial_column_in_indian_paper_fires_back/