Professor put on leave for encouraging destruction of anti-choice display

Oh dear. Sally Jacobsen, a professor at Northern Kentucky University, was put on permanent leave for encouraging her students to destroy an anti-choice display.

Jacobsen acknowledged leading graduate students on Wednesday to a grassy area near the University Center to rip up about 400 crosses. The crosses, temporarily erected a week earlier by a group called Northern Right to Life, were meant to represent a cemetery for aborted fetuses.
It was unclear whether Jacobsen took part in dismantling the display.

I’m about as pro-choice as it gets, but that’s just fucked up. Seriously, leave the property destruction and harassment tactics to the anti-choicers–that’s their thing, not ours. If Jacobsen really wanted to do something productive, she could have taken a cue from Princeton. The pro-choice group there organized a counter-display to the gross anti-choice “Class of 2010: 347 didn’t make itâ€? flags put up on campus.

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