FIRE Burns Claremont University Spokeswoman on Blog

Barbara Jefferson: Was she mistaken or deliberately misleading?

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) blogged about the double standards at the Claremont Colleges.

You might remember the letter FIRE wrote to Robert A. Walton, CEO of the Claremont Colleges Consortium, over the infringement of our liberty and violation of the law that becomes quite routine on our campuses in the name of political correctness. You can read about the letter in more detail here.

Here's the essential bit.

FIRE never heard back from Walton or anyone at the Claremont Colleges, but the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, a local newspaper, wrote an article on FIRE's letter. The article included a quotation from Claremont University Consortium spokeswoman Barbara Jefferson:

FIRE has threatened with litigation. We have no comment.

We're not sure where Jefferson got that idea, since FIRE does not litigate and never has. We do have a Legal Network and will sometimes refer cases to attorneys who share our value of free expression, but such a move was not contemplated here, and there's no way they could have read our letter to indicate that it was.

Let me just get my gripes out of the way before we go to comments. Why was their no Claremont Conservative mention? After all, Aditya was the one who broke the story... *smacks head against table and mutters the thankless life of the college blogger.*