Apparently, I'm not the only reader who thinks the explanations of the professors who spread the fake story of Homeland Security investigating  a student for checking out Mao's "masterpiece" doesn't pass the laugh test. The head of policy studies at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (Clyde Barrow) wants the university to suspend a student who made up a story about being grilled by federal antiterrorism agents over a library book and to reprimand faculty members who spread the tale. UMass should punish the student and faculty members, in particular two history professors who repeated the unsubstantiated assertion of the history student to a New Bedford Standard—Times reporter. The story spurred a flurry of concerned e—mails among UMass faculty, and appeared in a Globe op—ed piece written by Senator Kennedy. In a Saturday Globe story reporting the hoax confession, UMass spokesman John Hoey said the university had no plans to discipline the...(Read Full Post)