“It’s quite easy to pick on us because everyone he wants to pander to already thinks we’re overpaid Marxists,” said David Burdige, an oceanographer at Old Dominion University and member of the school’s Faculty Senate. “If you’re trying to appeal to a particular group of people, then picking on the university as being bastions of leftwing thinking and depravity, it’s sort of like shooting bears at a garbage dump. You’re guaranteed to score points.”
A professor in Virginia’s public university system responds to the attorney general, who has “[challenged] university policies that bar discrimination against gays and lesbians and [used] a civil subpoena to demand documents from a former University of Virginia professor known his scientific work on global warming.”