The former LSU Professor was deleted from his class after waiting for a suspicion of political comments. He sueded his university and said he violated his first correction right and its own policy.
Ken Levi, a professor of the Constitution and Penal Code, claims that he was excluded from his class earlier this month after reporting the political comments on the first day of the criminal judicial course to Governor Jeff Laundry. Masu. To the university manager about his comments.
Levi says he grew up in his oath statement Laundry comments about Nick Buriner, a fellow law professor And he didn’t want to be a laundry target, so he asked the students not to record his lecture.
“If Governor Laundry retaliates to me, F *** f *** is a joke, a joke clearly, my no recording policy in the class. Emphasize the first fix, “Levy wrote in Affi Davit.
Laundry called on LSU last year to train his comments on President Trump the day after the presidential election.
Levy claims that his actions take his actions to reduce the rights of other faculty and staff, as well as his actions on his oath statement.
Kate Kelly, a Landry spokeswoman, introduced the question to LSU. Todd Woodward, a university spokesman, has not yet responded to the comment request.
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Levi asks a judge to allow LSU to allow him to return to education, as well as orders that prohibit further actions.
Levy also claims that LSU has violated his own policy on the punishment of the lifetime professor.
Tenure provides indefinite academic appointments to qualified teachers who have demonstrated their outstanding in the field. Scholars during the period of employment can end only for the cause, but usually only occurs in extreme situations. University teachers are shields for political, corporate and religious interventions, regarding their employment period as an important part of freedom of learning at universities.
Levy has attached a letter from the LSAY MADATIC LSU director, a LSU employee -related director. This is informed that his removal from a classroom where students’ complaints with inappropriate statements are on hold. Madatic wrote that his compensation remains the same and is allowed on the campus.
Levy’s lawyer Jill Craft claims that Madatic has no authority to discipline him.
Craft demanded a temporary suppression order and stated that LSU had no policy to allow a lifetime professor to exempted his duties.
LSU has several policy statements and permanent memorandums to cope with disciplinary actions for lifetime employment teachers. These policies require some reviews, all of which require a peer review panel. Nothing happened before Levy was deleted from his class.
“Regardless of the characteristics of LSU, the action of unilaterally relieving (unilateral education) violates his substantial and procedural rights,” Craft wrote.
Senator President Dan Tilon stated that the only time that the professor was familiar with was that the professor had been deleted from the classroom or other types of abuse. 。 In such a case, the professor cannot access the campus for safety concerns.
The removal of the levy from the classroom protested with his defense on Tuesday, causing significant rebound from the general public and LSU law students. The students submitted a petition to the advisor of the Winston Desia University, which seeks Levi’s resurrection, and apologized and apologized for the complete transparency in the disciplinary process.
At the Senate Conference on Wednesday, Tirone advised teachers who are concerned about treating the classroom like a public forum. There are universities and classroom policies that prohibit lectures, but Tirone stated that they will not be isolated from professors because they may be generated when students leak their remarks.
Tirone added that even if they were politically or controversial, the undergraduates would continue to follow the statements covered by academic freedom.
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