Embattled Penn Law Professor Amy Wax Deserves Our Support | Opinion

Perhaps most chilling is the final paragraph of Ruger’s letter. Noting that sanctioning a faculty member is a “rare event,” he concludes that “the increasingly negative impact that her conduct has had…constitutes a major infraction of University standards.” Requesting a further hearing, he implores Penn’s faculty senate to “review” her “conduct” and what he calls “the severe harms she has caused to our community.” Presuming a negative finding from that hearing, he calls for the faculty senate “to ultimately impose a major sanction on her.”

After the pro forma “fair trial,” in other words, Ruger expects that Wax will be led to the proverbial firing squad.

Wax is not taking her treatment lying down, as many academics in her position would. Seeing the writing on the wall, she rightly anticipates an outcome as unjust as it will be absurd. A fundraising campaign she launched earlier this week on GoFundMe.com has, as of this writing, raised over $30,000 for her legal fees, which could easily run into six figures to contest a wrongful termination or other unlawful sanction. Anyone concerned with basic American freedoms should contribute. If the totalitarian forces at work in our society can do this to a tenured professor of law holding an endowed chair at an Ivy League university, they can do it to anyone.

The link to the GoFundMe campaign can be found by clicking this link.

via www.newsweek.com

Not sure how she would feel about the University of Austin, but they should check her out.