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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Theater school retaliation

BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana federal judge allowed a doctoral theater student’s civil rights and conspiracy claims to proceed against the former chair of Louisiana State University’s School of Theatre Ph.D. program. The former chair and other faculty allegedly refused to teach the student because he denounced the “Gender, Sexuality, and Performance” course as “liberal indoctrination.”

Read the ruling here.

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