Today's podcast touches on two items. 

The first item is from the July 27th edition of The Chronicle.  It is a "Point of View" essay by Mark Rahdert entitled The Roberts Court and Academic Freedom.

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i47/47b01601.htm

The second item is a Chronicle First Person essay, If Your Syllabus Could Talk, by Monica D'Antonio.

http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/07/2007071901c/careers.html

This episode focuses on only one item: Gary Olson's article in the Head's Up Column of the July 13th edition of The Chronicle entitled "Let's Just Do Our Jobs."

http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=q4ByJswnqKrxzzcrYyncFM5HZMyh9DVq

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