{"id":5246,"date":"2009-02-25T15:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=5246"},"modified":"2009-02-25T15:20:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T23:20:08","slug":"students-sue-university-of-ottawa-for-barring-controversial-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/02\/students-sue-university-of-ottawa-for-barring-controversial-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Students sue University of Ottawa for barring controversial professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Citizen:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/Technology\/Students+University+Ottawa+barring+controversial+professor\/1325256\/story.html\"> Students sue University of Ottawa for barring controversial professor<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA-Two graduate students and a researcher have filed a lawsuit against the University of Ottawa, claiming \u201ctheir academic and research careers have been frustrated and\/or derailed\u201d after a controversial physics professor was barred from campus.<\/p>\n<p>Denis Rancourt, a tenured professor, has attracted attention for his unconventional methods, including a plan to give all students in a fourth-year and graduate-level course in physics an A-plus. He has been placed on academic suspension. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa Citizen: Students sue University of Ottawa for barring controversial professor OTTAWA-Two graduate students and a researcher have filed a lawsuit against the University of Ottawa, claiming \u201ctheir academic and research careers have been frustrated and\/or derailed\u201d after a controversial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/02\/students-sue-university-of-ottawa-for-barring-controversial-professor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264],"tags":[1288952,1288961],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-issues","tag-legal-issues","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}