[Kip Currier: Reading this story about Prof. Eric Mendenhall conjured up for me the memorable "When they go low, we go high" maxim from First Lady Michelle Obama's 2016 DNC speech.] "The fall semester has just started but Eric Mendenhall, an assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, already has schooled the Twitterverse on how to shut down slurs. Mendenhall said a student who had just followed him on Twitter posted that "My genetics teachers is a faggot." Believing the comment to be about him, the professor had this to say..."
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Professor's Response to Twitter Slur Goes Viral; Inside Higher Ed, 8/30/16
Inside Higher Ed; Professor's Response to Twitter Slur Goes Viral:
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