You think I'm kidding. Heh. DePaul's administration has responded to FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) on the Klocek case. Says DePaul's President, "Recently, I have found myself as president standing up for this academic freedom when the university withstood a nationally organized campaign against a production of The Vagina Monologues on campus. I have also found myself supporting certain faculty when outside political interests call for a professor's removal because of his or her opinions on controversial issues." That's Norman Finkelstein he's referring to in that last bit, I presume.

Both FIRE's letter to the school, the school's response as well as FIRE's latest press release are on this page. The letters are in PDF, sadly (or I would have posted them when they were released - I hate pdf).

Marathon Pundit has the press release and links here.

I was going to say I almost feel sorry for DePaul's president, but really, I feel sorry for Thomas Klocek, who lost his job and had his name dragged through the mud. I feel sorry for the truth, I feel sorry for students being tossed in to boil in a politically-correct stew and I feel sorry that "academic freedom" and "free speech" are more often used as shields for people who want to use their positions to flog their politics without consequence or question for themselves, while those in the "out" group (who are sadly in the right in this case) are cast aside.