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Table of Contents

Titles of articles since Newsletter inception,
May 1992, to
January 2010
    MAY 1992, ISSUE 1
  • Wubning, Judy - The CAUT Briefing
  • Kimura, Doreen - SAFS Opposes the CAUT
  • Wubnig, Judy - The Canadian Philosophical Association: Socrates vs. Thrasymachust
  • Furedy, John - Academic Freedom at Risk at U.T

    NOVEMBER 1992, ISSUE 2
  • Nelson, Allan - Bill 79: "Employment Equity" comes to Ontario
  • Wubnig, Judy - Lewis Report on Racism in Ontario
  • Furedy, John - SAFS Letter to Stephen Lewis
  • Furedy, John - Informational Versus Ideological Strategies
  • Brown, Grant - Canadian Philosophic Association Becomes PC.

    APRIL 1993, ISSUE 3
  • Wubnig, Judy - The University in Jeopardy: Toronto conference, March 12, 1993
  • Wubnig, Judy - Two Case Studies of Attacks on Academic Freedom from Non-Academic Policies.
  • Wubnig, Judy - The Ontario Women's Directorate: Dictating How to Speak the Queen's English

    OCTOBER 1993, ISSUE 4
  • SAFS - Bill 79, The Ontario Employment Equity Act.
  • Globe and Mail - A quota is a Quota.
  • Covell, Kathy - Employment Inequity
  • Kimura, Doreen - Fear of Offending Stifles Intellectual Debate
  • Christensen, Ferrel - Students Question Quotas: Alberta
  • Donnelly, Patricia - Letter of June 3: Students Against Employment Quotas
  • SAFS - Federal Elections, October 25, 1993
  • Wubnig, Judy - Canadian Philosophical Association Rejects Mail Ballots.

    DECEMBER 1993, ISSUE 5
  • SAFS - UNB Suspension of Professor: SAFS Board of Directors Statement
  • Furedy, John - Black Thursday, Academic Freedom, and the Comfort Criterion in Canadian Universities: The UNB and McGill Cases.
  • Murrell, David - Martin Yaqzan and the UNB Administration: A Colleague's Account
  • Davis, Philip - Educational Equity and its Intellectual Baggage: CAUT Bulletin Supplement on the Status of Women.
  • Furedy, John - Ontario's Bill 79 and "No White English-Speaking Men Need Apply"
  • Sullivan, P.A. - An Engineer Discusses Relativism.

    APRIL 1994, ISSUE 6
  • SAFS - Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty
  • Levant, Ezra - The University of Alberta: "Anti-Racism" Racism.
  • Furedy, Chris - Yaqzan, Witchhunts and a Chilly Campus Climate
  • Miles, Murray - Parkinson's Law and Employment Equity Officers: Brock University and the McKeen Memorandum.
  • Wubnig, Judy - Does OCUFA Represent You?
  • Furedy, John - Framework Regarding Prevention of harassment and Discrimination in Ontario:: SAFS Letter to Minster of Education and Training David Cooke.
  • Kuxdorf, Manfred - Zero Tolerance in the Year 1993.

    JUNE 1994, ISSUE 7
  • Furedy, Chris - Report on First Annual SAFS Conference, Toronto, May 7, 1994.
  • Granatstein, J.L. - Academic Freefall: Whatever Happened to Free Speech?
  • Furedy, Chris - The AGM in Brief
  • Kimura, Doreen - Women and Science: On the Report of the 5th Canadian Conference of Women in Engineering, Science, and Technology (York University, August 1992).
  • Cooke, David - Ontario Minster, Education and Training the Framework: Ontario Minister Replies.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Obituary: David Carlton Williams.

    OCTOBER 1994, ISSUE 8
  • Furedy, John - Academic Freedom: Canadian Faculty Associations and SAFS.
  • Davis, Steven - Why SAFS?
  • Wong, Paul T.P. - A Strategy to Combat the New Orthodoxy.
  • Smith, David - Intellectual Guerrilla Warefare: Report on the SAFS Conference, May 7, 1994.
  • Warrick, David - Politicizing the Classroom: Report on Conference held at Carleton University, May 26-29, 1994.
  • Sullivan, P.A. - Book Review: Who Stole Feminism?: How Women have Betrayed Women, by Christina Hoff Sommers. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994.

    JANUARY 1995, ISSUE 9
  • SAFS - SAFS Message fro the President: Donner Canadian Funds SAFS.
  • Murrell, David - Report on the Conference: When Rights Collide, University of New Brunswick, Sept. 27 & 28, 1994.
  • Furedy, John - Spreading the News about PC, Canadian Campus Style.
  • Furedy, John - SAFS' Defence of Classroom Academic Freedom Appears to Have had some Results: The Mackinnon Case at University College of the Cariboo.
  • Klatt, Heinz - Western's Petition to Combat the Framework Regarding Prevention of Harassment and Discrimination in Ontario Universities.
  • Katzman, Joe - Campus Codes... But Codes for What?
  • Wubnig, Judy - Review: Balance: The Inclusive Vision of Gender Equality, Movement for the Establishment of Real Gender Equality (MERGE), Edmonton, Alberta.

    APRIL 1995, ISSUE 10
  • Brown, Grant - Debating Employment Equity: Impressions from Grant Brown's Speaking Tour.
  • Merit and Equity Reconciled?

    JULY 1995, ISSUE 11
  • Crawford, Charles - Academic Freedom in the Inclusive University.
  • Furedy, John, Davis, Phillips, Granatstein, J.L., Gruhn, Ruth, Kimura, Doreen, Sullivan, Philip, & Wubnig, Judy - SAFS Board's Open Letter to President David Strangway, University of British Columbia, July 1, 1995.
  • Kimura, Doreen - THIS Fails Logic 101.
  • SAFS - SAFS Logic and Hate: SAFS Board on Doreen Kimura's Article: "THIS Fails Logic 101".
  • Hilborn, Kenneth - A Little Notoriety
  • Miles, Murray - Now Hear THIS!
  • Irvine, William & Heinrichs, Terry - Getting THIS Straight: A letter to THIS Magazine
  • Page, Stewart - Students: Apathy vs. Critical Awareness
  • Saunders, Doug - Terror and Chill: Harassment Policies Aim to Heat Up "Chilly Climate"
  • Fizyoloji, Sakire Pogun - A View from Abroad
  • Kimura, Doreen, Gruhn, Ruth, Wubnig, Judy, & Furedy, Chris - SAFS Women Professionals and Science.
  • Davis, Philip - Review: Air New World, by Lou Tafler, 1994.
  • McEwen, Joan - From the Report in Respect of the Political Science Department of the University of British Columbia 1995.

    JANUARY 1996, ISSUE 12
  • Chong, Gordon - the Terrible Twins: EE and AA.
  • Shulman, Harvey - A fair Chance: Comments on the CAUT's Ad Hoc Committee Report on Employment Equity.
  • SAFS - SAFS Board's Open Letter (#2) to Presidnet David Strangway, UBC, Regarding MCEwen Report.
  • SAFS - SAFS board Press Release on the Suspension of Prof. Gerald hannon, Dept. of Journalism, Ryerson Polytechnic University.
  • Furedy, John - Freedom and Scholarship: Report on Talks (Canada and Abroad), Nov. - Dec. 1995.
  • SAFS - SAFS Defending the Principle of Academic Freedom, Rather than Individuals or Individual Views: board Response to Email Members' comments on Board's Open Letter Regarding Professor Geral Hannon, Ryerson University.
  • Furedy, John - Transicript-Gate and Similar Scholarship Cases.
  • Trevena, Claire - Sexual Politics UBC - Style.
  • Klatt, Heinz - Review: Professing Feminism - Cautionary Tales from Inside the Strange World of Women's Studies by Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge, 1994.
  • Berezin, Alexander - Excellence in Research: Has its Meaning Changed?

    APRIL 1996, ISSUE 13
  • Loney, Martin - Researching the Equity Industry Part One: Disinformation and "Double Disadvantage"
  • Heinrichs, Terry - Who Exactly is Hurt by "Hurful Speech" or Whatever Happened to Sticks and Stones...?
  • Endler, Norman - Research and Politics.
  • Bosher, J.F. - Guidelines for Manuscript Preparation: Questioning the Approach of the Social Science Federation of Canada.
  • Cook, Deborah - The Left and Employment Equity.
  • Chong, Gordon - The Left and Employment Equity (Response).
  • SAFS - SAFS Academic Autonomy and Academic Freedom.
  • Taborsky, Edwina - Review: Crash-test Dummies?
  • Wubnig, Judy - Booknote; Multiculturalism and Objectivity by Susan Haack, partisan Review, No. 3, 1995.
  • Lajeunesse, Claude, & Furedy, John - The Ryerson Case: An interchange.
  • Furedy, John - Suspicions and Indictments: When and How to React
  • Balch, Steve - Is Academic Freedom Still Deserved?

    SEPTEMBER 1996, ISSUE 14
  • Furedy, John - Revising the Ethics Code for Human Research Response of SAFS
  • SAFS, NAS - Book De-Publication: Joint NAS-SAFS Statement
  • Furedy, John - Implicit Application of the "Comfort Criterion"? The "Inquiry" into the Teaching of Chris Brand, University of Edinburgh.
  • Klatt, Heinz - Patai on Heterophobia: The Feminist Turn Against Men.
  • Loney, Martin - Researching the Equity Industry Part Two: Academe's Diversity Disciples.
  • Heinrichs, Terry - The Left and Employment Equity
  • Voyer, Graeme - Decidedly Leftist
  • Brown, Grant - Misinformed on Employment Equity.
  • Henshel, Dick - Didging the "Fix" of the Tri-Council.
  • Knowles, Sid - Review: Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Cecame an Excuse to Teach Myth as History.
  • Furdey, John - Increasing Impact: Notes from President's Remarks at SAFS Annual Meeting, May 11, 1996.
  • Hannon, Gerald - Settlement at Ryerson.

    DECEMBER 1996, ISSUE 15
  • Horn, Michiel - Academic Freedom and Tenure Part One: An Academic Good, a Societal Benefit.
  • Cook, Deborah - Unmasking the Dreaded "L" Word: The Political Context of the Equity Debate.
  • Henshel, Dick - Following Up on the Tri-Council Code.
  • SAFS - SAFS Guaranteeing Academic Freedom.
  • Kay, Jon - AA an Prostitution.
  • Brown, Grant - CAUT -SWC Misinformed
  • Furedy, John - Academic Freedom and the UBC Administrators: Errors of Judgement vs. Provessional Misconduct.
  • Resnick, Phil - the Disservice of Ascriptive Hirting.
  • Zurcher, Rita - Symposium on PC in Neuroscience.

    MARCH 1997, ISSUE 16
  • Horn Michiel - Academic Freedom and Tenure Part Two: Linked and Threatened.
  • Singer, Ben - Professor Richard Hansel: 1930-1997.
  • Furedy, John - International Standards for Research: SAFS Responds to Draft Code of Ethics.
  • Harris, Michael - Response of Premier Harris on Issues of Academic Freedom and the OHRC, to President of SAFS, November 22, 1996.
  • Furedy, John - Future Directions in Post Secondary Education in Ontario: Comment on the Report of the Ontario Advisory Panel.
  • Suedfeld, Peter - When the Barbarians are Inside the Gates...
  • Voyer, Graeme - Philosophical Roots of Affirmative Action.
  • Resnick, Phil - The UBC Presidential Ad.
  • MacCormick, N., & Furedy, John - Evaluation of Teaching and Research: Further Correspondence with the University of Edinburgh.
  • Soots, Krista - Equity to the Rescue.
  • Berezin, Alexander - Overcoming the Tri-Council Secrecy.
  • Shulman, Harvey - A Grave New Challenge.
  • Hawkes, Nigel - Another Rejection of Publication on Intelligence by John Wiley and Sons.
  • Patai, Daphne - the Costs of Harassment Changes in Universities.

    AUGUST 1997, ISSUE17
  • SAFS - Press Release Re. Harassment Codes and Offices in Institutions of Higher Education.
  • Sullivan, P.A. - Employment Equity Policies: A Triumph of Ideology Over Informed Judgement.
  • Gruhn, ruth - The Art of the Possible: Modifying the Discrimination/Harassment Policy at the University of Alberta.
  • Resnick, Philip - Hiring Ad Policy at UBC.
  • SAFS, & Friesen, Henry - Tri-Council Working Group; The Code of Ethical Conduct: What Progress?
  • Crawford, Charles - Painful Struggle at SFU.
  • Smyth, Bill - Notorious Among Whom?
  • Grayson, J.Paul - The left and Affirmative Action.
  • Cook, Deborah - Messianic Argument.
  • Dank, Barry - Sexuality and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
  • Furedy, John - Academic Freedom vs. the Culture of Comfort: Update on the Brand Case.
  • Klatt, Heinz-Joachim - Surreal Pursuit of Sexual Harassment Charges.
  • Steiger, James - Threats and Smears from Left and Right.

    FEBRUARY 1998, ISSUE 18
  • Furedy, John - Academic Freedom vs. the Culture of Comfort: NAS Joins SAFS on the Brand Case.
  • Furedy, John & Wilson, Brad - SAFS, Joined by NAS, Condemns Violation of Scholar's Freedom.
  • Hilborn, Kenneth - Academic Freedom, Unwelcome Conduct, and Speech Codes: Role of SAFS Members at UWO.
  • Furedy, John - Ethical Conduct of Research From Code to Guidelines: A shift in Tricouncil Approach
  • MacKinnon, John - Two Differences of Political Correctness: A Review.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Report from The University of Western Ontario Local Chapter for 1997.
  • Furedy, John - Affirmative Action 101: University of Michigan Symposium
  • Smyth, Bill - Unconvincing Cri De Coeur.
  • Spencer, I, & Khalil J. - University of Hawaii Reviews Sexual Harassment Investigation and Advocacy Function.
  • Haskell, Robert - caught in the Net: Academic Freedom, Promotion, Reappointment, Tenure and the Administrative Use of Student Evaluation of Faculty (Part IV): Analysis and implications of View from the Court in Relation to Academic Freedom, Standards, and Quality Instruction.
  • Oxford Univerisity Press - Scientists, Philosophers and Historians Defend the Essence of Science.
  • Furedy, John - PC Folly at Trent University
  • Furedy, John - Professor Hans Jurgens Eysenck, 1916-1997.
  • Burgan, Mary - pressure of the Corporate Mentality.

    APRIL 1998, ISSUE 19
  • Furedy, John - Intrustion of Extra-Academic Criteria into Scholarly Publishing?
  • Horn, Michiel - Academic Freedom and Self-Censorship.
  • Furedy, John - Independent Adjudicator Awards Win for Academic Freedom Over Culture of Comfort.
  • Shallit, Jeffrey - 'Censorship U' gets Another Rebuke.
  • SAFS -Does York's Administration Judge Faculty on their Academic Competence?
  • Furedy, John - Equity Studies: Education in a Discipline or Indoctrination in Ideology?
  • Finley, David - SFU Update: vigilance Still Needed.
  • Knowles, Sid - Secular Indoctrination Interference in Religious Higher Education?

    SEPTEMBER 1998, ISSUE 20
  • Furedy, John - Change in President.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Message from SAFS President.
  • Pogun, Sakire - Izmir Title too Sensitive.
  • Furedy, John - History and Future of SAFS.
  • Furedy, John - Eminent Scholar's Concern About Tri-Council Statement.
  • Miles, Murray - SAFS on the World Wide Web.
  • Sullivan, Philip - Universities and Scholarship in the Modern Democracy (abstract).
  • O'Neill, Patrick - Should, Therefore Shall: Expansion of Ethical Concerns in Teaching and Research (abstract).
  • Horn, Michiel - The Harry Crowe Case and Academic Freedom in Canada (abstract).
  • Axelrod, Paul - The Ironies of Academic Freedom (abstract).
  • Furedy, John - Academic Freedom vs. Power in the Acadmmic Faculty-and-Student Community: A Pre-Socratic, Conflict-of-ideas Perspective on Enquiry (abstract.)
  • Klatt, H.-J. - Information on Sexual Harassment Chages at UBC Requested.

    MARCH 1999, ISSUE 21
  • Kimura, Doreen - SAFS News in Brief: SAFS Annual General Meeting at SFU, Burnaby, BC; SAFS Action on Current Issues; Donation to SAFS; Chapter Action.
  • Furedy, John - Keeping an Eye on the Implementation of the Tri-Council's Statement.
  • Sullivan, P.a. - Sullivan Opinion Piece Published in Toronto Star Following Press Council Ruling.
  • Kimura, Doreen - APEC: An Apology and an Assurance Needed.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Employment Equity v s. Merit.
  • SAFS - Graduate Student's Academic Academic Freedom Protected at Simon Fraser University.
  • Bauer, Henry - Howl 1998.

    JUNE 1999, ISSUE 22
  • Kimura, Doreen - SAFS Annual Meeting Report.
  • Page, Stewart - On the Daily Visicissitudes of Equity Based Hiring.
  • Lupker, Stephen - Preferential Hiring Clause Challenged in Union Contract, UWO.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Flaws in Report on NSERC Women Faculty Awards.
  • Klatt, Heinz - Muzzling Research: Le nouveau Code civil du Quebec, Le Code civil comme museliere; The Civil Code as a Muzzle.
  • Irvine, A.D. - Where Dies APEC inquiry now Stand?
  • Berezin, Alexander - NSERC Funding System: Oppressive for the Quality of Academic Scholarship.
  • Hilborn, Kenneth - Faculty Merit and Multiculturalism.

    NOVEMBER 1999, ISSUE 23
  • Hilborn, Kenneth - Anti-"Hate" Legislation: A Threat to Academic Freedom.
  • Kimura, Doreen - The Wilfred Laurier U. Job Advertisement Affari.
  • Kay, J. - Pride and Prejudice.
  • Kimura, Doreen - University of Manitoba Students' Union Tries to Stifle Dissent.
  • McKeever, Paul - Exceptional Job Advertisement.
  • Hilborn, Kenneth - Book Review; Political Correctness: A Crushing Critique: Review of the Pursuit of Division: Race, Gender, and Preferential Hiring in Canada by Martin Loney, 1998.
  • Ryan, James - Susan Haack: Essential Readings for SAFS.
  • Furedy, John - A Happier Time.
  • Wilfred Laurier University - The Women-Only Job Advertisement at WLU.

    JANUARY 2000, ISSUE 24
  • Kimura, Doreen - Employment Equity is a Misnomer.
  • Furedy, John - Appeal to Ontario Human Rights Commission Re. WLU "Women Only" Job Advertisement: Update.
  • Bosher, J. F. - Review: Academic Freedom in Canada: A History, by Michael Horn, 1999.
  • Miles, Murray, & Kimura, Doreen - CAUT Clause on Academic Freedom Violated by Acceptance of Job Ad.
  • Seligman, Clive - University Affaris and the WLU "Women Only" Job Ad.
  • Miles, Murray, & Hilborn, Kenneth - Letters to WLU President on "Women Only" Ad.
  • SAFS - Concordia University Faculty Association Deplores Descriminative Hiring.
  • Pangle, Thomas - Ideological Conformity a Prerequisite for U of T Position?
  • Page, Stewart - The WLU Ad and Student Support for Equity Views.
  • SAFS - Junk Gender Science: Scientific Status of Report on Discrimination Against MIT Women Scientists Questioned.
  • Kimura, Doreen - SAFS President Writes to NSERC Grant Committees.

    APRIL 2000, ISSUE 25
  • Zakuda, Leo - Imposed Diversity: Antithesis of a University.
  • Press Release Re. President-Designate University of Toronto.
  • Steiger, James - Out of Balance: BC Human Rights Tribunal.
  • Letter to Editor - "Diversity" in University Hiring and Admissions.
  • Furedy, John - Velvet Totalitarianism in British Academia: The Case of Chris Brand and Edinburgh University.
  • A Curricular First: Psychology Course on Political Correctness.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Under-Representation: A Tired Refrain.

    SEPTEMBER 2000, ISSUE 26
  • Sullivan, Philip, & Furedy, Christine - The Use and Abuse of Systemic Discrimination.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Report on the SAFS Annual Meeting, May 13, 2000.
  • Board of Directors - SAFS on University of Toronto Settlement with Dr. Chun, October 2, 2000.
  • Zakuda, Leo - The 15% Solution.
  • Furedy, John - Rory Leishman, a Canadian Bard of Wales.
  • How NSERC Justifies the "Women-Only" Faculty Awards (letters).
  • BBCS Opposes NSERC'S Exclusionary Faculty Awards (letters).
  • Seligman, Clive - Complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Commission Against Wilfrid Laurier University for Job Discrimination.
  • Teaching Evaluations too Timid.

    JANUARY 2001, ISSUE 27
  • Seligman, Clive - SAFS Wins Donner Grant for Legal Devence Fund.
  • SAFS Letter to Dawson College.
  • Nominees for SAFS Board of Directors
  • University of Toronto President Robert J. Birgeneau Respons to SAFS.
  • President Birgeneau's Open Letter to the University Community.
  • Furedy, John - Provincial Politics Fail to Affect Employment Dquity Commitment in Universities.
  • Spousal Hiring.
  • Dowbiggin, Ian - The Power of Paarnoia.
  • Maitzen, Stephen, & Furedy, Chris - Letters to the Editor.

    APRIL 2001, ISSUE 28
  • Furedy Academic Freedom Award.
  • Bosman, Julie - The (No) Free Speeech Movement.
  • More on (No) Free Speech.
  • Michigan's Thin Line.
  • NAS Hails Michigan Race Discrimination Ruling.
  • SAFS Letter to Provost Owram, University of Alberta.
  • Provost Owram's Response to SAFS.
  • SAFS Response to Provost Owram.
  • Letter to Editor, National Post - Academic Freedom.
  • Editorial, National Post - Protest U.
  • Hausman, Patricia - Weomen who whine too much: Confessing to a Nonexistent crime.
  • Letter to Editor - Study Methods Sound.
  • Smallwood, Scott - Controversy over a Professor's poem Prompts Debate on free Speech at U. of Alaska.
  • Seligman, Clive - Summary of Recruitment Activity for all full-time Faculty at the University of Western Ontario by Sex and Year.

    September 2001, ISSUE 29
  • Westhues, Kenneth - SAFS and the Darker Forces.
  • Klatt, Heinz - PSY 383E: Psychology and Ideology the Study of Political Correctness.
  • Seligman, Clive - Report on the SAFS Annual Meeting, May 19, 2001.
  • Furedy, Chris - Presentation of Furedy Academic Freedom Award to Julie Bosman.
  • Furedy, John - President Atkinsons' Opposition to the use of SAT I.
  • SAFS Letter to Dean Cairns, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.
  • Response to SAFS by Dean John A. Cairns.
  • SAFS Letter to President Laura Mardsen, York University, and Dean peter W. Hogg, Osgoode Hall Law School.
  • Response to SAFS by Dean Peter W. Hogg.
  • Harshman, Richard - Proposed Principles to Guide Accommodation of Student Disabilities.

    JANUARY 2002, ISSUE 30
  • Furedy, John - Latent or Even Unconscious (?) Influences on Dquity and Merit Phraseologies in Canadian Tenure-Stream Advertisements.
  • Asher, Jeffrey - Lynched by the Sisterhood.
  • Nominations for SAFS Board of Directors 2002-2003.
  • Kurtz, Stanley - Silencing Sommers Clinton Holdovers have their way with HHS.
  • Kurtz, Stanley - More on Silencing Sommers.
  • Hilborn, Kenneth - Repression in the Shadows.
  • Halvorseen, Thor - FIRE and the Aftermath of September 11.
  • Marantz, Paul - Humanism Betrayed.
  • Piper, Martha - Statement on Academic Freedom.

    APRIL 2002, ISSUE 31
  • Furedy Academic Freedom Award.
  • Seligman, Clive - Happy 10th Birthday to us.
  • Nancy Innis Interviews Doreen Kimura.
  • Hilborn, Kenneth - SAFS and Campus Politics at Western.
  • Smyth, Bill - Speech Codes on Campus.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Preferential Hiring of Women.
  • Page, Stewart - Attitudes Toward Equity Issues: A graduate Student Sample.
  • Linking the Diversity of Peoples' sex, race, etc. with the Diversification of Ideas: Who's being racist and sexist here?.
  • Furedy, John - Diversity or Comformity?
  • Herman, Peter - Satire - Addressing the Faculty: Student Diversity Mismatch.
  • Staddon, John - Science as Politics by other means: Fact and Analysis in an ethical world.
  • Innis, Nancy - Regulations - A threat to Scholarship.
  • Furedy, John - IRBS: Ethics, Yes - Epistemology, No.
  • Diener, Ed - Over-Concern with Research Ethics.
  • Seligman, Clive - Update on Osgoode Hall Law School's Investigation of Hatemongering.
  • Satire: Study finds Sexism Rampant in Nature.

    SEPTEMBER 2002, ISSUE 32
  • Seligman, Clive - Report on SAFS 10th Annual Meeting, May 2, 2002.
  • Furedy, John - Presentation to Doreen Kimura: The opinions of the Wise versus the Comfort of the Many.
  • SAFS Statement on Anti-Israel Boycott.
  • SAFS Statement on Anti-Free Speech Riot at Concordia University.
  • Diversity Debates: University of Toronto.
  • Canada Research Chairs Politicized.
  • University Presidents Remember September 11, 2001.
  • International Treaties and the Canadian Charter.

    JANUARY 2003, ISSUE 33
  • Seligman, Clive, & Sorrentino, Richard - The Control Agenda in Canada's Governance of Ethical Review of Human Research.
  • Furedy, John, & Furedy, Christina - Stream Advertisements Before and After the 1995 "Common Sense Revolution".
  • Nominations for SAFS Board of Directors, 2003-2004.
  • Staddon, John - Diversity Should be an Outcome, Not a Goal.
  • Seligman, Clive - SAFS Letter to Frederick H. Lowy, Rector, and Lillian Vineberg, Chair Board of Governors, Concordia University.
  • Seligman, Clive - SAFS Letter to Sabine Friesenger, President of Concordia Student Union.
  • UT Conference Announcement.

    APRIL 2003, ISSUE 34
  • Hilborn, Kenneth - Academic Freedom and Canadian Law.
  • Singer, Benjamin - Academic Freedom or Vocational License?
  • Cole, Jonathan - Defending the idea of the University in Troubled times.
  • SAFS Letter to Lorna R. Marsden, President and Vice-Chancellor, York University.
  • Diversity Debate at UWO.
  • Staddon, John - Have Race-Biased Admissions Improved American Higher Education?
  • Furedy, John - Ignorant Vesus Enlightened Ways of Fighting Discrimination: The Martin Luther King Perspective.
  • Quotas Help no one.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Letter to Society for Neurosciences.

    SEPTEMBER 2003, ISSUE 35
  • Seligman, Clive - Report on SAFS 11th Annual General Meeting, May 3, 2003.
  • Seeman, Neil - Feminists, Masculinists, Blacklists.
  • SAFS Letter on Research Ethics
  • SAFS Letter to Gilles G. Patry, Rector and Vice-Chancellor, University of Ottawa.
  • SAFS Letter to Roch Denis, Vice-Chancellor, University of Quebec at Montreal.
  • Furedy, Chris - Defending Freedom in the Politicized University (Summary of Keynote Address to the AGM by Dr. Fred Lowy, Rector, Concordia University).
  • Kay, Jonathan - Concordia - One Year Later.
  • Canada Research Chair Quotas Opposed.
  • Adams, Mike - Satire: New Affirmative Action Hiring Proposal.

    JANUARY 2004, ISSUE 36
  • Brigeneau, Robert - Upholding the Principles of Free Speech.
  • Pro-Palestinian Conference held at University of Toronto.
  • Furedy, John - Hatred on Campus.
  • Pfeffer, Anshel - More on Anti-Israel Boycott: University Heads to Form Panel to Fight Academic Boycott.
  • Birgeneau, Robert - Celebrating Sexual Diversity
  • Zakuta, Leo - Celebrating Diversity?
  • McFerran, Noel - Diversity of Opinion Should be Encouraged.
  • Kirsanow, Peter - More on U.S. Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision: Still Unconstitutional.
  • Texas University Shuts Down Bake Sale.
  • Update on Canada Research Chairs: Human Rights Complaint.
  • Another SAFS Response to Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (PRE)
  • Seligman, Clive - REBs and the Forest Industry.
  • Leo, John - The Sheldon --It's Baaack.

    APRIL 2004, ISSUE 37
  • Irchard, Karen - Canada's Billion-Dollar Controversy.
  • Sokoloff, Heather - Lowering the bar: Queen's Lowers Admission Standards to Boost Aboriginal Attendance.
  • Goldberg, Jonah - Racial Preferences More Harmful than Legacy Policies in College Admission.
  • New Scholarship Created for Whites Only.
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Curran, Peggy - Swastika Tightrope
  • Giroday, Gabrielle, & Seligman, Steven - Should Hate Speech be a Crime?
  • Rushton, Philippe - Book Review.

    SEPTEMBER 2004, ISSUE 38
  • Seligman, Clive - Report of Conference.
  • In Memoriam.
  • Smyth, William - Letter to the Editor: McMaster University Faculty Association Newsletter.
  • Wubnig, Judy - On Being a Women
  • Wente, Margaret - Call me Nuts, but PC Language Cripples us.
  • Loney, Martin - Robert Birgeneau's Legacy at U of T.
  • Furedy, John - Academic Merit Undervalued.
  • Hadzilacos, Vassos - Case Resorts to Sophistries.
  • Furedy, John - Both Points Misstated.
  • Sullivan, Philip - Letter Misrepresents Points Made.
  • Hadzilacos, Vassos - Low Representation can and should be Remedied.
  • Sowell, Thomas - The Grand Fallacy.
  • If Thaat's not Racism, What is?
  • Censorship and the CRTC.
  • Birchard, Karen - Canadian University Lifts Suspension of Student Accused of Disrupting Classes.
  • Student Discipline.
  • How many IRB members does it take to screw in a light bulb?

    JANUARY 2005, ISSUE 39
  • Birchard, Karen - Women make gains in Canada Research chairs following uproar over gender disparity.
  • Chavez, Linda - Preferences aren't necessary
  • Fund, John - High bias: It's time to bring some intellectual diversity to America's college and Universities.
  • Kay, Barbara - Propaganda in the classroom.
  • Seligman, Clive - SAFS letter to president and vice chancellor Frederick H. Lowy, Concordia University.
  • Lowy, Frederick - Response to SAFS
  • Editorial - UQAM goes the way of Concordia.
  • Furedy, John - Principled protection of university autonomy through punishment versus Concordia University's cowardly concerns over safety and culture-of-comfort complains.
  • Jimenes, Marina - Israelis legitimate targes, canadian muslim says:
  • Narveson, Jan - commentary regarding Elmasry at University of Waterloo.
  • Leishman, Rory - Expect Elmasry to get away with outrage.
  • Kohler, Nicholas - University Decides not to Discipline Elmasry.
  • Dekoning, Brian - UNH student allowed to return to dorm.
  • Salzinger, Kurt - APA symposium on IRBS: protecting science and academic freedom from institutional review boards.

    APRIL 2005, ISSUE 40
  • Wisse, Ruth - Gender fender-bender.
  • Kimura, Doreen - Hysteria trumps academic freedom.
  • Hill, Art - Letter to SAFS editor.
  • Miller, Jack - Paying the price
  • French, David - Academic freedom for some
  • French, David, Lukianoff, Greg & Silverglade Harvey - FIREe's guide to free speech on campus.
  • SAFS Annual General Meeting 2005.
  • Editorial - Smothering free expression
  • Lake, Richard - UNLV accused of limiting free speech.
  • Kay, Barbara - Academic freedom is under attack.
  • Moore, John - Leftist professors? what a surprise.
  • O'Neil, Patrick - Research ethics regulations.
  • Haggety, Kevin - Accommodating ethical review: Response to Bosk and De Vries.
  • OCTOBER 2005, ISSUE 41

  • Seligman, Clive - Report of Conference
  • Seligman, Clive - PC at Harvard
  • Hampson, Elizabeth - Choice and Sex Disparities
  • Seligman, Clive - Tribute to John and Chris Furedy
  • SAFS motion on boycott
  • Summers, Lawrence - $50M Diversity cash
  • Robert, Jason & Baylis, Francoise - Values and Funding research
  • Polanyi, John - We undermine science if we overmanage research
  • Jonas, George - A fancy name for tribalism
  • Charbonneau, Leo - Ethics review and survey research
  • Lerner, Maura - Scientific misconduct
  • Frost, Greg - Gibberish fools conference
  • McDonald, Henry - Brainstorming banned
  • JANUARY 2006, ISSUE 42

  • Howlett, Karen - Mandatory retirement in Ontario to end.
  • In Memoriam - Harvey Shulman
  • Baerlocher, Mark, and Detsky Allan - Bias in residency admissions?
  • SAFS - Nomination for SAFS board of directors
  • Brown, Louise - Women turn away after years of gains: Universities try to lure them back
  • Annual General Meeting - May 13, 2006
  • Preferential Hiring
  • Treats to Academic Freedom
  • Malesic, Jonathan - Why can't undergrads think like PhDs?
  • REB Malfeasance
  • Purpose of the University
  • APRIL 2006, ISSUE 43

  • UPEI Censorship:
    - Seligman, C. - Open Letter
    - President Maclauchlan's response to SAFS
    - Bruno, W, Edwars, J., Kimura D., Awrey R., Featherstone, P. - Letters to the Editor
    - Furedy, J., Irvine, A., Lupker, S. - Letters to the Editor
    - Srebrnik, H. - UPEI Faculty Opposes Gay Laws
  • ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY CENSORSHIP
    - Seligman, C. - Open Letter
  • CENSORSHIP AT SCIENCE
    - Highfield, R. - Scientists are split on the different ways men and women think
  • FREE SPEECH
    - Jacoby, J. - Freedom for the thought we hate
    - Dreyer, F. - Letter to Editor
    - Fulford, R. - Blasphemy has set us free
    - Vanderwolf, S. - Pushing the limits of free speech
  • SAFS annual general meeting - May 13, 2006
  • Glater, J. - COLLEGES OPEN MINORITY AID TO ALL COMERS
  • Sullivan, P., Furedy, J. - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO EQUITY PROGRAM
  • Paglia, C. - HARVARD's FUTURE
  • Holmes, R. - THE PUBLICATION CULTURE
  • SEPTEMBER 2006, ISSUE 44

  • Mercer, M. - Report on the Peter March affair at Saint Mary's University
  • Braun, S. - Cartoons and the violence veto
  • Ryerson failed Margaret Somerville
  • Van der Horst, P.W. - Curbing academic freedom
  • Gooch, P. - Civil discourse
  • Naylor, D. - President Naylor's statement
  • Furedy, J. - Furedy's critique of Naylor
  • Suedfeld, P. -101 Most dangerous academics
  • Fish, S. - Conspiracy theories 101
  • Muller, J. - Mission creeps in REBs
  • Salim Mansur, Honored

    JANUARY 2007, ISSUE 45

  • Doreen Kimura wins Kistler prize
  • Balch, S. - NAS Press Release - Diversity outpolls freedom on University Websites
  • CEO Press Release - Racial discrimination at the University of Michigan
  • Jaschik, S. - Michigan votes down affirmative action
  • Nomination for SAFS Board of Directors 2007-2008
  • Kirsanow, P. - Failure of proof: The elusive benefits of diversity
  • Jacoby, J. - Sacrificing truth on the altar of diversity
  • Lupker, S. & Seligman, C. - Pay equity at Western: A critical look
  • Schmidt, S. - University enrolment hits one million
  • Censorship Debate: Saint Mary's University - Letters to the Editor
  • FIRE Press Release - Report finds rampant censorship at American colleges and Universities
  • Annual General Meeting - MAY 12, 2007
  • Young, C. - Balancing views on campus
  • Horowitz, D. - After the academic bill of rights
  • AAUP Questions scope of research ethics boards
  • APRIL  2007, ISSUE 46

  • Goel, V. - Memorandum to Principals, Deans, Academic Directors & Chairs
  • SAFS Response to Provost Vivek Goel - Letter to Editor
  • Commentary at BLOGUT.ca - Free Speech?
  • Seligman, C. - SAFS Letter to President Judith Woodsworth, Laurentian University
  • Seligman, C. - SAFS Letter to Mr. Shawn Menard, President, Carleton University Students Association
  • FIRE Press Release - Victory for Free Expression at San Francisco State University
  • Wterfield, B. - Genocide Denial' Bill raises Free - Speech Fears EU Law Proposal
  • New York Times - Editorial - Students' Right to Free Speech
  • Mackinnon, J.E. - Letter to Editor - White and Black Separatism in Halifax
  • Braun, S. - Curing Ignorance and Prejudice with Censorship
  • SAFS Annual General Meeting - May 12, 2007
  • Higgins, J. - Do Campus Tribunals Wield too Much Power?
  • Hanscom, A. - The new Forced Segregation
  • Furedy, J. - Dubious Partnership: Equity and excellence are not equivalent
  • Excellence and Diversity in Faculty Hiring at U of T
  • Lewin, T. - Colleges Regroup after Voters Ban Race Preferences
  • September 2007, ISSUE 47

  • Kay, B. - Academic Freedom Under Seige
  • Furedy, J. - Radically Principled vs. Compromisingly Political Reactions to the Academic Anti-Israeli Boycott "Welcome to the Fight"
  • Mercer, M. - Petitions and Academic Freedom
  • Stern, L. - When Scientific Inquiry and Social Taboos College
  • University President Recommends Firing Professor
  • Thompson, F. - Banning Dave Barry
  • FIRE Announces its Speech code of the Month for September 2007: The Ohio State University
  • Leo, J. - Separatist Graduations Proliferate at UCLA
  • Divide, R. - High School Holding two Graduation Ceremonies - one for Natives, one for Whites
  • Taranto, J. - Wacky Caste of Characters
  • Henninger, D. - People in Ethnically Diverse Settings don't care about each other
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada - Memorandum
  • Furedy, J. - Glad to See U of T Recognizes Conflict Between merit and equity
  • Expelled for Plagiarism, Concordia Student Files $16-Million Lawsuit
  • Goldstein, E. - Where the Warfare is more than just Academic
  • JANUARY 2008, ISSUE 48

  • Mueller, J. - Research Ethics Boards: Request for Comment from Members
  • CBC News - Human Rights complaints Against Maclean's
  • Annual General Meeting - May 10th 2008
  • SAFS Statement on HRC Complaints
  • Moynihan, M.C. - Danish Cartoon Crisis Revisited
  • Hilborn, K.H.W. - Military Research and Academic Freedom
  • In Memoriam
  • Nomination for SAFS Board of Directors
  • Fulford, R. - Into the Heart of Political Correctness
  • Jaschik, S. - Defining Academic Freedom for 2007
  • Horowitz, D. - AAUP Defends Indoctrination
  • Brock University: Academic Freedom
    - Letter to President Lightstone, Brock University
    - President Lightstone's response to SAFS
  • Bernstein, D.E. - What about Larry?  Compare Chemerinsky's tale with Academia's Bashing of Ex-Harvard Chief Summers
  • Maranto, R. - As a Republican, I'm on the fringe
  • Balch wins National Humanities Medal
  • Adams, M.S. - Brave Newark World
  • Tibbetts, J. - More men needed in post-secondary institutions declining enrolment a long-term worry for schools

    APRIL 2008, ISSUE 49

  • Seligman, C. - SAFS conference
  • SAFS statement on preventing campus debate by leaders of the York Federation of students and its student center
  • Brean, J. - IS abortion too hot a topic for campuses?
  • Our student leaders are hardly totalitarian
  • Wente, M. - Free speech has to be for everyone
  • Kay, B. - Israeli apartheid week
  • Jonas, G. - Reading between the freely spoken lines
  • PEN Canada calls for changes to human rights commission legislation
  • CAJ urges changes to human rights laws
  • SAFS annual general meeting - May 10, 2008
  • Hilborn, K. - A postscript to "Academic Freedom and foes of the military"
  • This isn't about facebook (Ryerson student scandal not really about social networking site)
  • Facebook 'cheater' won't be expelled from college
  • BC student discrimination lawsuit dismissed
  • Hoppe, D. - Affirmative action at IUPUI
  • Mather, M., & Adams, D. - The crossover in female-male college enrollment rates
  • Lakhani, N. - Farewell to 'predictable, tiresome and dreary' women's studies
  • Jaschik, S. - the 'double hit' on women's salaries

    SEPTEMBER 2008, ISSUE 50

  • Seligman, C. - SAFS letter to minister of justice Nicholson regarding the Canadian human rights commissions and tribunals
  • Mark Mercer takes the fight for free speech to the New York review of books
  • Libin, K. - Academics fear speaking freely in Canada
  • Orwin, C. - Canada does not protect academic freedom?  what a load of bupkes
  • MacLean's responds  to recent decision from the Canadian human rights commission
  • Victory for free speech as third circuit issues ruling against Temple University
  • Jerema, C. - Kwantlen shuts down controversial research
  • Seligman, C. - SAFS letter to president Atkinson, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, regarding professor Russell Ogden: Academic Freedom
  • Loftus, E. - Perils of provocative scholarship
  • Heriot, G. - the ABA's 'Diversity' diktat
  • Schmidt, P. - America's universities are living a diversity lie
  • Hoff Sommers, C. - The gender-equity hammer comes out title IX at the door
  • MacDonald, H. - Math is harder for girls... and also, it seems, for the New York Times
  • Church, E. - Canadian universities hurting for funds
  • A professor sues his students

    JANUARY 2009, ISSUE 51

  • Brean, J.  - Queen's new 'Dialogue' monitors:  University hires students to facilitate discussions on social justice
  • Be friendly, non-judgmental, Queen's University's 'dialogue facilitators' told
  • Annual General Meeting - Advance Notice
  • SAFS letter to Patrick Deane, Vice-Principal, Queen's University
  • Deane, P. - Letter from Patrick Deane,  Vice-Principal, Queen's University
  • Cooper, B, Flanagan, T., Navarro-Genie, M., Milke, M. - Freedom of speech should trump discomfort at University of Calgary
  • Seligman, C. - SAFS letter to Harvey P. Weingarten, President, University of Calgary
  • Lewis, C. - Lakehead student union bars clubs from 'negative' messaging
  • New Release:  CAJ demands end to tribunal's inteference in free press
  • Kay, J. - Censorship, press councils and hate speech:  Three observations on Richard Moon's CHRC report.
  • Fish, S. - An authoritative word on academic freedom
  • Will, G. - Will on Fish:  Free ride for the campus left
  • Nomination for SAFS Board of Directors 2009-2010
  • Jaschik, S. - David Horowitz does the MLA
  • Mansur, S. - Speak up for Canadian freedom
  • Wilders, G., and Spencer, R. - 2009:  A year to defend free speech or lose it
  • Sullivan, P. - Letter to CAUT bulletin editor
  • Laucius, J. - Universities in $450M 'hole"
  • Officials in Wales accidentally print out-of-office e-mail on road sign

    APRIL 2009, ISSUE 52

  • Anderson, R. What makes a great university
  • Brean, J. - queen's cancels dialogue facilitator program
  • Carpay, J. - Free Speech dies a slow death on Canadian campuses
  • SAFS Letter to the President of York University
  • Excerpts from President Shoukri's address to York University senate
  • Offman, C. - York University sanctions student groups over rally clashes
  • SAFS Annual General Meeting
  • SAFS Letter to the President of the University of Ottawa and Carleton University
  • Stewart, P. & Turk, J. - Universities are betraying their central mission
  • Anderssen, E. - Professor makes his mark, but it costs him his job.
  • Fish, S. - The two languages of academic freedom
  • Steyn, M. - APAS -Lute Freedom
  • Thernstrom, S. - Staving off the Yellow Peril

    SEPTEMBER 2009, ISSUE 53

  • Mercer, M. - Saint Mary's University disrupted by protesters
  • Kimura, D. - We don't need no thought control
  • Hitchens, C. - Yale surrenders - why did Yale University Press remove images of Mohammed from a book about the Danish cartoons?
  • Shibley, R. - Why no one should be silenced on campus
  • Rosenfeld, E. - UCSB drops case against professor - Investigation of academic freedom comes to a close
  • Jaschik, S. - Ward Churchill gets nothing
  • Deshman, A. & Cody, C. - Is freedom of speech disappearing on campus?
  • Sullivan, P. - the urge to censor - comment on Cody/Deshman debate
  • Turley, J. - The free world bars free speech
  • Irony:  Amazon erases Orwell books from kindle service
  • To the editor, SAFS newsletter
  • Steele, S. - Affirmative action is just a distraction
  • Hoff Sommers, C. - Baseless bias and the new second sex

    JANUARY 2010, ISSUE 54

  • A victory for free speech on campus
  • Jonas, G.- Saving the Canadian human rights commission through amputation
  • Carpay, J. - Alberta is more free thanks to court ruling
  • Shibley, R. - Pajamas Media (America's worst colleges for free speech on campus)
  • Turley, J. - Blasphemy Laws
  • Finkin, M. & Post, R. - For the common good principles of American academic freedom
  • Chesser, M. - Student senators voice opposition to new draft of research policy
  • Lidman, M. - Norway university won't boycott Israel
  • Nomination for SAFS board of directors 2010-2011
  • Macedo, D. - University of Minnesota under fire for task force's discrimination based teacher education plan
  • Taranto, J.  - A 'Diversity' sham
  • VerBruggen, R. - Racial preferences by the numbers
  • Church, E. - Education if you're a new Canadian, 'you go to university'
  • Lederman, D. - Catching up to Canada
  • Harvard says it lost $1,8 billion in cash investments, on top of endowment loss

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