The Citation de la Semaine selection committee is pleased to present this week's HONORABLE MENTION citations to two of the message board's most august posters: Stephen Judd and Robert Campbell.  Their comments serve as a reminder of just how important the AAUP principle of academic freedom is to academic life on the campuses of American colleges and universities:

STEPHEN JUDD: "To this day, the exile of F&G from campus is still treated by the HA as an almost ordinary event, about on the par of removing a hangnail. People outside the academy are simply incapable of understanding how such losses rip huge holes in the fabric of our intellectual life."

ROBERT CAMPBELL: ". . . the mass media haven't a clue what firing senior professors for criticizing the administration will do to a university."

This week's winner is another of the message board's most august posters: Invictus. Either of the following posts would have earned him the distinction of being this week's WINNER:

INVICTUS: "The number one way to improve the 'economy' in Mississippi is to fully fund education & begin building a culture that values education." [Thank you, WIFFM, for this nomination].

Invictus: "some of us actually care about the university. Not what the current USM administration tells us is 'caring' for the university, but an actual vision of what a university can & should be."