UW's policy on the use of college resources for political activity is quite clear, and can be viewed at http://www.wisconsin.edu/govrel/camprule.htm

That page includes the following sentence: "You may not use state resources to engage in political campaign activities at any time"
A few paragraphs later the page states that "state resources" includes university email accounts.

So, at the very least, the "professor" violated university policy. If your assertion is correct (that he's not an "official"), then he can make that argument in court.

I encourage /.ers to read your journal, so they can get some idea of where you're coming from (the far left), and can judge your assertions accordingly.

Me, too! Truly, this is "The Year of the Jackpot".

But not by Wikipedia, since anyone can contribute.

No, the problem is that WOMEN discriminate against Wikipedia, deciding that they have more important things to do with their time.

So women must be dragged, kicking and screaming, into becoming Wikipedia contributors. This sounds like the perfect opportunity for the FCC to force women to spend more of their time in this way. I suggest they call it "Sex Neutrality".

Did you also look at the "Giffords is dead to me post" before it was wiped from that notorious right-wing site, the DailyKos?

I look forward to your public apology when you find out that the assassin was a lefty atheist, rather than a Republican or Christian.

But thanks for identifying yourself as a kneejerk lefty jackass.

Actually, he was identified as a lefty atheist nutjob loner.

Coming from the party of Frances Fox Piven and Bill Ayres, that's FUNNY!

DailyKos took down their recent "Giffords is dead to me" post. Mebbe you should be spreading the blame a bit farther.

The attacker turns out to be a lefty atheist pot-head. I look forward to your post blaming DailyKos (for the recent "Giffords is dead to me" post) and Frances Fox Piven for today's shootings.

When you call for a violence against the established government (like France Fox Piven did recently), and you know that a fair number of the people reading her comments are loons, and you find out the shooter was a lefty atheist pot-head, it's a reasonable speculation that lefty "eliminationist rhetoric" inspired the shootings.

Seems somebody was listening to Frances Fox Piven or reading the "Giffords is dead to me" post on DailyKos and acted on it. Scary.

But thanks for identifying yourself as a member of the kneejerk lefty jackass brigade.

Prime example of pork-barrelling - Mission Control is in Houston because LBJ demanded it, not because it was the best location.

So "hiding the decline" (i.e., tree ring data which does NOT support AGW) is "legitimate data manipulation"?

ESR looked at the CRU code, and described it as "blatant data cooking". Is that "legitimate data manipulation", too?

The irony is, if the left wing actually supported the right on some of their basic rights issues, they would get another break on government power.

(note the Left's current guffaws over the non-prosecution of the white guys who brutally beat a black man in St. Louis 3 months ago)