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They would be reluctant to mandate that ID be off-limits as a topic of discussion on campus, even if they thought the case for it was weak.
I don't think that anyone is asking university presidents to mandate anything as off-limits. The question is whether the university presidents should take a stand on the quality of academic research. If a university history faculty member were to teach Holocaust denial, I would not expect them to be dismissed except if it can be shown that the quality of their research were below acceptable standards. On the other hand, I would expect the president of the university to denounce it.
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Put it this way. If Ward Churchill, then ID.
As I recall, the governor of Colorado is putting pressure on the university to dismiss Churchill. There is a university committee investigating his writings to see if they can scrape up some grounds for dismissal. So much for academic freedom, eh?