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FIRE criticized Brandeis University on both free speech and due process grounds in early 2008 over its treatment of veteran politics professor Donald Hindley.

Provost Marty Krauss informed Hindley in October 2007 that comments he made in his Latin American politics class violated the school's anti-harassment policy.

Krauss placed a monitor in Hindley's class and ordered him to attend racial sensitivity training.

FIRE, along with Brandeis ' own Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities, has criticized Krauss for never explicitly telling Hindley what specific in-class comments constituted harassing speech and for not granting Hindley a process by which to appeal the decision.

According to Brandeis ' student press, Hindley is rumored to have used the epithet " wetback.

" An anonymous student-witness, quoted in the Brandeis Hoot, called Hindley's remarks " inappropriate.

" Other students praised Hindley's pedagogical approach as encouraging " students to face racist narratives head on " and that any disagreement " is a dispute for students and faculty to solve through rational dialogue, not one for the administration to settle in secret inquisitions.