{"id":4711,"date":"2006-02-16T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T20:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4711"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:56:12","slug":"notre_dame_the_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4711","title":{"rendered":"Notre Dame &#8211; the university&#8217;s character v. academic freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting posting on Amy Welborn&#8217;s weblog. She is a Catholic author and speaker whose webjournal has a big following. <\/p>\n<p>This has to do with the ongoing debate at Notre Dame (and at most other Catholic Universities) over their &quot;Catholic Identity&quot; and academic freedom. I believe the most recent ruckus had to do with whether &quot;the Vagina Monologues&quot; should be shown on the ND campus.<\/p>\n<p>If you want the complete treatment go to the links in Welborn&#8217;s posting &#8211; but it&#8217;s not really necessary &#8211; her excerpts cover the key points.<a href=\"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/openbook\/2006\/02\/an_ideal_worth_.html\">open book: An ideal worth striving for<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>N<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting posting on Amy Welborn&#8217;s weblog. She is a Catholic author and speaker whose webjournal has a big following. This has to do with the ongoing debate at Notre Dame (and at most other Catholic Universities) over their &quot;Catholic Identity&quot; and academic freedom. I believe the most recent ruckus had to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9801,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4711\/revisions\/9801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}