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Your article about the University of Georgia's denying tenure to Maija Blaubergs [Oct. 6] was scary. It sounds like the beginning of a totalitarian state. Judge Owens is violating the concept of the secret ballot by demanding that faculty members reveal how they voted. Next the Government will want to prohibit secret voting in unions, professional organizations, civic organizations, corporations, and finally in the general elections...
...District Court judge found the professor, James Dinnan, in contempt for refusing to say how he voted on the tenure and promotion of Maija Blaubergs, a female faculty member...
Georgia's Dinnan was one of nine faculty members who voted, 6 to 3, to deny tenure to Psycholinguist Maija Blaubergs, 33, a teacher in the college of education since 1972. It was the third time in as many years that Blaubergs had been denied promotion and tenure, and she sued the University of Georgia, charging sexual discrimination. During pretrial interrogation, Dinnan refused to disclose how he had voted. Instead he asked: "If academic freedom is not the right to judge one's peers free from outside pressure or intimidation, then what...