Academic repression.

A number of professors have been detained, arrested, or otherwise harassed in America's wars on Iraq and terror. Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Akron, was arrested in Israel on July 8, 2006. Professor Tariq Ramadam was denied a visa under a key provision of the Patriot Act (http://www.aaup.org).

A battle is underway on campuses over what can or cannot be said about the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy. Douglas Giles, a professor of Philosophy and Religion at Roosevelt University in Chicago, was fired after being ordered by his department head not to allow students to ask questions about Palestine and Israel or to mention anything that could possibly open Judaism to criticism (The Observer, August 13, 2006). Also see "Dark Days in Academe" at http://groups.yahoo. com/group/foracademicfreedom.

John Milos, Associate Professor of Political Economy at the National Technical University of Athens, was expecting to speak on a panel called "Class and the Distribution of Income in the United States" at SUNY Stony Brook's "How Class Works" in June, 2006. Instead, he was held at Kennedy Airport, questioned for hours, and ultimately sent back to Greece by federal authorities (Inside Higher Ed, June 21, 2006).

The Latin American Studies Association moved its 2007 congress from Boston to Montreal, in protest of the U.S. government's repeated denial of visas to Cuban scholars (58 so far in 2006) invited to participate in earlier congresses.

"Facts Count," a document written by a coalition of academic and civil liberty groups, debunks David Horowitz's The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America (Inside Higher Ed, May 9, 2006).

Ohio recently passed a law requiring all new employees of state agencies to fill out a form declaring that they have no ties, as determined in six broad questions, to any terrorist groups as defined by the U. S. State Department. The AAUP says the forms are even broader than McCarthy-era loyalty oaths, are unconstitutional, and "gravely threaten academic freedom" (http://insidehighered.com/news/ 2006/08/15/oath).

The Department of Defense has been monitoring e-mail messages from college students who were planning protests against the war in Iraq and against the military's "don't tell, don't ask" policy against gay and lesbian members of the armed forces (The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 6, 2006).

According to The New York Times (August 24, 2006), Evolutionary Biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income students. In England, meanwhile, world scientists are uniting to attack creationism as it begins to creep into British schools. The national science academies of 67 countries created a statement, which the Royal Society signed on behalf of Britain's scientists, against Creationism (The Independent, June 22, 2006).