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A federal judge has ruled in favor of Roy Bauer, a tenured professor of philosophy at Irvine Valley College, who claimed his First Amendment rights were violated when the South Orange County Community College District ordered him to seek anger-management counseling and to tone down the language in newsletters he publishes. Bauer is the chief editor of two publications, The Dissent and The Vine, that often cast a critical eye on college administrators. Bauer has published fictional accounts of the violent deaths of trustees and of his desire to drop a chunk of granite on the head of the college’s president. In his summary judgment in favor of Bauer, U.S. District Court Judge Gary Allen Feess found that “the speech in question is core protected speech and there is no applicable First Amendment limitation that would permit the discipline to be imposed on Bauer.”
Traditional ranking system
A proposed survey called the National Survey of Student Engagement: The College Student Report, to be funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, may soon provide an alternative to the traditional ranking methods produced and published by such magazines as U.S. News and World Report and Kiplinger’s. The survey, administered by the Center for Postsecondary Research and Planning at Indiana University, is to be structured to give students the opportunity to voice opinions about their schools.
--Matthew Winston
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