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Students at Middlebury College are protesting their administration’s acceptance of a newly endowed professorship with a string attached—namely the name of the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist. There’s little debate that the Judge was a conservative figure on the Supreme Court, but debate ranges widely on how appropriately his views manifested themselves in his decisions—and whether those decisions jive with the beliefs of the Middlebury community. All parties seem determined to play nicely, and The Middlebury Campus kindly relays this gem of advice from Middlebury President Ronald D. Liebowitz: "I support strongly students who come forward to challenge things that are going on here on campus and in the larger world. When they do exercise their right to challenge, however, they ought to be well versed in the issue, not simply eager to chant the mantra of a particular political viewpoint.” (We’d all do well to remember that.)

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