Academic "Freedom". . .

. . .applies only to liberal politics. Assistant professor, David Deming, wrote a letter in support of gun ownership that offended many of the opposite side--he used a rather controversial illustration. According to Deming, his boss, Dean John Snow,seems to be attempting to censor and suppress the professor. Ironic:

In April of 2001, OU President David Boren proclaimed that a policy of "complete free speech" applied to the entire OU campus, but Boren's policy is nothing but empty rhetoric and public relations.

A good portion of the article also demonstrates how Dean Snow does not tolerate dissidents:

Seven days before Christmas, I was summoned into the office of Dean John T. Snow. My tenure in the geology department was abrogated without due process. My geophysics class—for which I receive outstanding student evaluations—was taken from me without explanation. I was stripped of my right to supervise graduate students in geology and geophysics. I was evicted from my office and relegated to a small, dark room in a corner of the basement. No other faculty member in the entire College has office space assigned in the basement. Dean Snow glared at me and said that the fundamental problem was that I was not submissive to authority

In addition, censorship is appearing:

The archives for the campus newspaper, The Oklahoma Daily, that published my original letter and articles on the resulting controversy, have been deleted from the Daily's website. The records for the months covered by the controversy, February, March, and April, of the year 2000 are conspicuous by their absence. Columnist Wendy McElroy wrote that this was one example of "a politically-correct pattern of purging conservative views from student newspapers [that] seems to be spreading across American campuses."

Folks "academic freedom" is a myth. Worse, "academic freedom" is a weapon to be used to bludgeon those who do not hold leftist views

The administration of the University of Oklahoma seems to want a generation of faculty that are servile, apathetic, and obsequious. No doubt that is what they will get.