{"id":2828,"date":"2006-04-17T19:28:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T23:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/04\/17\/librarian-charged-with-sex-harassment-"},"modified":"2006-04-17T19:28:48","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T23:28:48","slug":"librarian-charged-with-sex-harassment-for-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/04\/17\/librarian-charged-with-sex-harassment-for-reading-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Librarian Charged with Sex Harassment for Reading List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a8295'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/dogbk.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"220\" align=\"left\">A &quot;sexual harassment&quot; investigation is ongoing at an<br \/>\n        Ohio college after the school&#8217;s librarian suggested that students read<br \/>\n        a few books from a conservative perspective.<\/p>\n<p>      According to the Alliance Defense Fund &#8212; a legal alliance that aggressively<br \/>\n      defends religious liberty &#8212; a librarian at Ohio State University at Mansfield<br \/>\n      has been slapped with a &quot;sexual harassment&quot; charge after he suggested that<br \/>\n      freshmen read four best-selling conservative books. <\/p>\n<p>      Scott Savage is a reference librarian at OSU Mansfield and a member of<br \/>\n      the school&#8217;s First Year Reading Experience Committee. After suggesting<br \/>\n      that students read &quot;The Marketing of Evil&quot; by David Kupelian, &quot;The Professors&quot;<br \/>\n      by David Horowitz, &quot;Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis&quot; by Bat Ye&#8217;or, and &quot;Takes<br \/>\n      a Family&quot; by Sen. Rick Santorum, Savage was put under &quot;investigation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>      The Alliance Defense Fund reports that three professors filed a complaint<br \/>\n      of discrimination and harassment against Savage because the list of books<br \/>\n      he suggested made them feel &quot;unsafe.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>      &quot;Universities are one of the most hostile places for Christians and conservatives<br \/>\n      in America,&quot; said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David French, who heads ADF&#8217;s<br \/>\n      Center for Academic Freedom. &quot;It is shameful that OSU would investigate<br \/>\n      a Christian librarian for simply recommending books that are at odds with<br \/>\n      the prevailing politics of the university.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humaneventsonline.com\/search.php?author_name=Christopher%20Flickinger\">Christopher<br \/>\n      Flickinger<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humaneventsonline.com\/blog-detail.php?id=14083\">Human Events Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><i>Incredible story, in the sence of stretching creibility.<br \/>\n        As big a fan as we are of finding &quot;sexual&quot; twists to almost anything,<br \/>\n        we fail to see the connection here.So far, the only on-line mentions<br \/>\n        we have found for this story are from a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/nwshp?hl=en&amp;tab=wn&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ncl=http:\/\/www.renewamerica.us\/columns\/huston\/060416\">handful<br \/>\n        of conservative blogs<\/a>.<br \/>\n        Anybody at OSU, or otherwise on top of the story, who can perhaps give<br \/>\n        a logical analysis of what&#8217;s going on?<\/i><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &quot;sexual harassment&quot; investigation is ongoing at an Ohio college after the school&#8217;s librarian suggested that students read a few books from a conservative perspective. According to the Alliance Defense Fund &#8212; a legal alliance that aggressively defends religious liberty &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/04\/17\/librarian-charged-with-sex-harassment-for-reading-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}