summer on the ballot of richard jewel starring cathy bates, olivia wild and john that s some of the news but not all. jedediah: new law could make it easier to revoke tenure against professors who aren t nice enough. brian: yes, finally. filed a class action lawsuit against the university and argued the new policy is designed to see you lens free speech in the classroom. jedediah: gregory boris, pharmacology and toxicology professor philip pa late, welcome all of to you the show. i m a little confused. full disclosure i m not a tenure advocate i personally oppose tenure for professors having been one in the past. what are the parameters under this not being nice? that seems kind of vague to me, no? it is vague. that s one problems.
the number of interpretations that there can be. jedediah: philip, we have a statement from the university the ua system and the board of trustees are committed to academic freedom and free speech which continue to be protected under these updated board policies. the policy revisions did nothing to change that commitment. what do you make of that statement? that s what they say but it s really what actions they might take and the problem here is the system and it is a system of many campuses throughout this statement is composed as most other colleges and universities of monthly liberal faculty. only about 10% of faculty identify as conservative. and those faculty feel very much at risk and threatened when they open their mouth. so even though the