Ethics

IUPUI Finally Ends KKK Book Case

By Ed Brayton

Remember that ridiculous case where an IUPUI student/employee was told he was guilty of racial harassment for reading a book about the KKK in a break room? 6 months after it happened, the university has finally removed the incident from their personnel/student files and exonerated Keith Sampson of wrongdoing. Better late than never, I suppose.

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and the ACLU both wrote several letters to the IUPUI administration demanding that they retract any charge of wrongdoing from Sampson's file and that they do something to prevent this from happening again. Finally, IUPUI Chancellor Charles Bantz replied and said that the whole matter is removed from Sampson's file and that they're reevaluating their affirmative action policies and how they handle such complaints.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).