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...However, it is unfortunate that your article, at one point, may create the impression that college professors employ academic freedom "to license oddball behavior" or to "give special sanction to a teacher's statements when made off campus or outside his field" or to "excuse incompetence, or exempt professors from criticism." College professors have not asked for the kind of exemption you describe. They do insist that they be protected from unwarranted assaults when they teach or do research in controversial areas, or when in the performance of their duties they take unpopular positions. Likewise they ask protection from...
...commonly is by whiny teachers or muddled newspapers, with lesser liberties of the profession. Academic freedom cannot properly be employed to license oddball behavior, or give special sanction to a teacher's statements when made off campus or outside his field. It does not excuse incompetence, or exempt professors from criticism...
...status of married student housing has never been litigated in Massachusetts courts, but University officials pointed out that the burden of proving the tax-exempt status of such facilities will fall on MIT, not Harvard...
...Boston officials decided that Boston University's married student forms were tax exempt. At the same time, B.U. agreed to pay Boston 50 percent of the assessed valuation in lieu of taxes every year...
Harvard officials have already made the same offer to Cambridge, if the City declares married student housing in Cambridge tax-exempt...