narrowing the range of acceptable speech: Today The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that
 New York University settled a claim on Monday with a former professor who was denied tenure after voicing support for a graduate-student union drive. The university agreed to expunge all records of his tenure denial and pay him $15,000. 
Of course, the university maintains that Joel Westheimer's pro-labor testimony had nothing to do with the fact that he was denied tenure, despite the fact that prior to that testimony, Westheimer had unanimous support from his department for his tenure bid. Whatever. It's funny -- NYU wanted to limit what Westheimer could say in public about his employer, yet NYU also apparently thinks its free to lie in public about its actions. This kind of hypocrisy happens all the time in Corporate America, but why does higher education have to operate by such unprincipled "principles"? Sorry, I'm a little bitter about higher education right now.
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