Inside Higher Ed: Kansas professor fights back
As a growing controversy has swirled around Paul Mirecki in the last few weeks, he has been relatively quiet, releasing statements through the University of Kansas. He has twice apologized for anti-religious comments he made in online discussions he thought were private, said he was calling off plans for a new course on intelligent design, and announced that he was giving up the chairmanship of the religious studies department at Kansas (while staying on as a tenured professor).
On Friday, however, he took off the gloves, and released a statement to the local newspaper in which he said that he was forced out of the chairmanship, that the university was failing to back his academic freedom, that local law enforcement officials were failing to adequately investigate an attack on him, and that he had hired a lawyer to consider possible lawsuits
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