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Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern University and Evanston's Only Daily News Source Since 1881

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Former Feinberg Prof. Alice Dreger speaks to a group of Northwestern students and Evanston residents about her resignation in August. Dreger resigned over allegations that Feinberg censored a magazine she guest edited over a story involving a nurse performing oral sex on a recently-paralyzed man.

Former professor calls for University to apologize for censorship

October 1, 2015

Former Feinberg Prof. Alice Dreger, who resigned from her position after she said the University censored a faculty magazine, is calling for an official apology from the administration. “They need...

Feinberg professor Alice Dreger resigned Monday after she said the University did not adequately address her concerns about academic freedom following the censorship of a bioethics magazine edited by Feinberg faculty.

Feinberg professor resigns, citing censorship

August 25, 2015

Alice Dreger, the Feinberg School of Medicine professor who made headlines in April for live-tweeting her son’s sex education class, resigned Monday over the allegations of censorship of a magazine...

Feinberg magazine’s future in question after controversial essay

June 26, 2015

A bioethics magazine edited by Northwestern faculty may stop publication after a censorship dispute with the University. Digital issues of the magazine Atrium were pulled offline after Feinberg School...

Professor live-tweets son’s sex ed class, draws attention to abstinence education

April 23, 2015

A Northwestern professor attracted national attention for criticizing her son’s abstinence-based sex education class in a series of tweets last week. Medical humanities and bioethics Prof. Alice Dreger...

Feinberg professor pens book on scientist-activist tension

February 11, 2015

A Northwestern professor has authored a book about scientists' findings that have been protested by activists who found them politically objectionable, the University announced Wednesday. Alice Dreger,...

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