Daily Egyptian: Southern Illinois U. Professor Demands Apology for ‘Academic Terrorist’ Label
Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump weren’t the only public figures feuding in recent weeks.
At the monthly SIU Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, Linguistics Professor Joan Friedenberg blasted back at SIU President Glenn Poshard after he allegedly said the professor was among a group of “academic terrorists” who “lay in the weeds and throw bombs at everybody” during a Nov. 30 SIUC Graduate Council meeting.
Poshard was purportedly referring to the actions of an anonymous committee known as Alumni and Faculty Against Corruption at SIU (AFAC) that reported claims of alleged plagiarism among faculty and administrators throughout the SIU system to the Chronicle of Higher Education and other media outlets.
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