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Friday, February 17, 2006

Reasonable Accommodation

A bill making its way through the Arizona legislature would, reports Inside Higher Ed, “require public colleges to provide students with ‘alternative coursework’ if a student finds the assigned material ‘personally offensive,’ which is defined as something that ‘conflicts with the student’s beliefs or practices in sex, morality or religion.’”

This reminds UD of the Christina Axson-Flynn story at the University of Utah, which is well worth a read if you aren’t familiar with it.

In the Arizona case, a student at a community college (and the student’s mother) objected to reading Rick Moody’s The Ice Storm
because it includes a wife-swapping scene. They have demanded an alternative reading assignment for that student. (The professor at issue, William Mullaney, gets one Rate My Professors comment: “Cool guy, cool course.”)

UD proposes Finding the Hero in Your Husband: Surrendering the Way God Intended, which shows a woman how to maintain her partner's fidelity by “encourag[ing] her husband to develop his leadership role in the marriage,” and by avoiding “unhealthy domination and control.”