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Eugene Volokh

Hamline Faculty Vote 71-12 to Ask University President to Step Down Over Muhammad Painting Firing Controversy

Today's Twin Cities Pioneer Press (Josh Verges) reports:

Hamline University's full-time faculty on Tuesday asked President Fayneese Miller to resign over her administration's handling of a Muslim student's complaint about an adjunct professor who showed ancient art in class that depicted the Prophet Muhammad.

Various Hamline administrators have said that what took place in an October art history class was "undeniably inconsiderate, disrespectful and Islamophobic" and "an act of intolerance." And Hamline rescinded its offer to have the adjunct professor, Erika Lopez Prater, teach again in the spring.

But after a wave of criticism from across the country, Miller conceded last week that she mishandled the episode….

The article quotes the faculty statement (passed 71-12, with 9 abstentions) as saying, in part:

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