JIM DOYLE
(James Edward Doyle, Jr.)
The University of Wisconsin had a radical faculty member who claimed that the 9-11 attack was the fault of Vice President Cheney and other absurd claims that were supportive of the Muslim Terrorists. Many called for the firing of the faculty member who had academic tenure. The University decided that college students were not going to be fooled or seduced by such absurd statements and that while in this case the statement were controversial and absurd, what would happen when a faculty statement was just controversial. The University agreed with almost all of the other great universities in America with the fact that the risk of a foolish pedant like this is very tiny in contrast to the risk of allowing officials—-academic or political---to to determine what a professor can say. This freedom has made the American University system the envy of the entire world.
James Edward Doyle, Jr., is an American attorney and politician who served as the 44th Governor of Wisconsin, serving from January 6, 2003 to January 3, 2011. In his first election to the governorship, he defeated incumbent Governor Scott McCallum by a margin of 45 percent to 41 percent; the Libertarian Party candidate Ed Thompson won 10 percent of the vote. Although in 2002 Democrats increased their number of governorships, Doyle was the only one of them to unseat a Republican. Doyle also served as Wisconsin’s Attorney General for 12 years before becoming Governor. He is currently an attorney 'of counsel' in the Madison, Wisconsin office of the law firm of Foley & Lardner and serves on the corporate board of Epic Systems.
