William Dorland, director of the University of Maryland's Honors Program, welcomed students to campus with an email saying, "This year, we learned that it is legal to hunt down and kill American children in Florida." Dorland, who is white, was referring to the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, in February 2012. The fact that a Florida jury cleared the shooter, George Zimmerman, of all charges in Martin's death did not deter Dorland. "I didn't regard [his comment] as a political statement," Dorland told Fox News. "I regarded it as trying to stir some student interest in an activity going on on campus." The activity, in question, is a campus appearance by civil rights leader turned climate change activist, Julian Bond. "I think it's stirring the pot," said Dorland in a defense of his email so clumsy as to be worthy of termination on its own. "I think, factually, the sentence--it may be strained and polemic or something--but it is roughly at least...(Read Full Post)