Academic Freedom: What, Where, When, How?

• Share

(4 of 4)

That point has occurred to many other Southern professors, who elect to carry on instead of fleeing North like their colleagues. "The place to fight for a principle," says Iredell Jenkins, philosophy professor at the University of Alabama, "is where it is a living issue, not where it is an accomplished fact, and still less where it has become a mere object of sanctimonious self-congratulations."