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Anonymous Tips for ‘Bias’ at William and Mary? Yikes.
Check on John Leo’s over at Minding The Campus, regarding William and Mary’s anonymous bias reporting program:
William and Mary’s new and anonymous bias reporting system is so wrong-headed that it’s hard to know where to begin protesting it. Some anonymous reports are legitimate, as Eugene Volokh argues at the Volokh Conspiracy, but calling for a college’s entire student body to watch out for bias, and then turn in their fellow students or professors, is not a good idea…
This reminds me of George Washington U’s similarly creepy program that we fought years ago. You better believe FIREis looking into this!
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