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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has delivered a body blow to free speech as well as academic freedom in a ruling against a statistics professor at NorthCarolina State University. Professor Stephen Porter objected to what he considered the lower standards used by his school to hire minority faculty.
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Board of Trustees of NorthCarolina State University. The article is the outgrowth of remarks that I gave a Maryland LawSchool at a Supreme Court symposium. The Law review asked me if I would be willing to convert my remarks into a law review article.
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