North Carolina House of Representatives voted to use the power

of the state budget to block the assignment of a book to all

freshmen and transfer students at the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill: Approaching the Qur'an: The Early

Revelations (White Cloud Press, 1999), by Michael Sells, a

professor of religion at Haverford College. Denying public

funds to the reading program unless "all other known religions

were offered in an equal or incremental way," they stipulated

that their prohibition "is not intended to interfere with

academic freedom, but to ensure that all religions are taught

Even if well intended, however, the move does, in fact,

demonstrate the significant and growing threats to academic

freedom that can occur in times of economic and political

The controversy began in June, when three unidentified

freshmen sued the university in federal court, arguing that

assigning the book inappropriately blurred the

constitutionally mandated separation of church and state. The

legislative committee then took its action, and, in respon

publication of Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting

exercises in conversion, and the university as a franchise for

that threaten us -- for finding causes, explaining problems,

instigating legislator worried about Professor Mirkin's

campuses comes at a time when boards must concentrate on how

pedophilia scandals by taking swipes at university budgets. In

Professor Saad Eddin Ibrahim, of the American University in

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