University of Toledo official fired over column

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080513/NEWS21/805130363 ^ | Tuesday, May 13, 2008

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

The University of Toledo confirmed yesterday that an administrator who wrote a column critical of gay rights for a local publication has been fired.

Crystal Dixon, associate vice president for human resources, was terminated on Thursday following about a week on paid administrative leave and a predisciplinary meeting May 5.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Kudos to this woman for taking a stand. Shame that her free speech was stifled by the Marxist/Communist university at which she was employed...

[Abathar]

Funny how free speech only matters when the people in charge agree with your message.

[republicanequestrian]

It’s the liberals idea of freedom of speech: it’s all okay, as long as it’s the left’s ideas and beliefs. Makes my blood boil!

[Resolute Conservative]

I cannot see how this affected her job, she needs to sue there butts off and then quit. Calling ACLU... ...

[Samwise]

Paging Voltaire.

[2banana]

Freedom of Speech only exists for those who speak the PC party line...

[DLfromthedesert]

Is there an e-mail address for the yahoo who fired her?

[xtinct]

Free speech is stifled in ALL U.S. universities. Just ask Larry Summers who merely mentioned in passing that men trump women in math and science. They do... BUT Larry wasn't suppose to hurt the poor widdle feelings of the indiotic, tree-hugging, cat-loving, still single at 40+ feminazi professors at Harvard U.

Politically correct and diversity at the expense of achievers is the rule.

[fungoking]

ahhhh.... tolerance!

[Castigar]

If the University gets any kind of ferderal funds she may have a suit for violtion of her contitutionsl free speech rights.

[snarks_when_bored]

University of Toledo official fired over column

If nothing in Crystal Dixon's contract with the University of Toledo expressly forbade her from expressing her opinions in print, and if she wrote nothing that was untrue, she has a cause of action against the school for unlawful termination. Is it true that homosexuals have the option of renouncing their homosexuality and beginning to live their lives as heterosexuals? Unquestionably. Is it true that black people don't have the option of renouncing their blackness and beginning to live their lives as white people (Michael Jackson notwithstanding)? Unquestionably.

Ms. Dixon should even now be retaining a good attorney, and also looking around for a good financial advisor to invest the settlement she's going to receive.

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

Contact the President of the University of Toledo and give him a piece of your mind...Dr. Lloyd A. Jacobs.

UTPresident@utoledo.edu

[DLfromthedesert]

Thank you. I will.

[vikingd00d]

A link to the article that got her fired.
http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=7609

[kingu]

Here's the link to the response she made in the Free Press. It was an expression of opinion, and a defense of the university which she works for, which does put the response in a slightly different category from free speech; she was acting on behalf of her employer.

As to if this is a terminatable offense - if she had incorrectly stated university policy, facts, etc, there might be grounds, but instead, it appears that she made the response factually, expressing her own personal opinion in places, where it's clearly separate from university opinion, etc. Her lawyer should be getting a nice paycheck for the settlement.

I think, honestly, what bothers me most is that someone who works for a small to mid-level university is pulling down $135k a year.

[stevio]

IMO, she didn’t say enough. I hope she sues them big time. The amount of money homos make must be the reason talk radio never mentions stuff like this anymore.

[CholeraJoe]

No it’s because the gay community has pictures of Rush with a donkey.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Given her position at the University, it was pretty stupid of her to write this column, and she gave the University little choice but to fire her. If she was a faculty member, it would have been protected as “free speech”, but for an HR person who is charged with managing hiring and other employment matters in accordance with the University’s non-discrimination policy, to go around writing columns for publication that express opposition to that policy makes her an extremely easy, and thus expensive, target for discrimination suits against the University. She made it cost a lot more to keep her than to fire her, so she got fired.

[stevio]

What’s Hannity’s excuse?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The message is that you’d better parrot the party line or you will be destroyed.

[Steve_Seattle]

I don't see how she gave the university a legitimate reason to fire her. I did not see anything in her column that disapproved of university policy, or indicated a willingness on her part to disregard university policy concerning gays or anything else. Nor was there any indication that she discriminated against gays in the course of her duties.

She was simply expressing her opinion on homosexuality.

[Desron13]

Bookmark for later flaming of Marxist University president.