Control freaks at Johns Hopkins University

The worst type of control freak is one who is put out by the slightest millimeter of offense, and then proclaims numbers of "acts" to gain back forgiveness. These are the types of people who are so insecure, so afraid of incivility, so afraid to offend, that they display their fit of pique in a way the Marquis of Sade would implore them to stop.

Witness the self-flagellation and acts of Job that the professors of Johns Hopkins attempted to put through this student (advice: read thoroughly re: Baltimore, please!) before the public and FIRE* screamed blue murder.

The extreme overreaction at JH screams academic totalitarianism - more worthy of the Soviet Union than at a college that pledges "diversity, tolerance, and understanding." Not when those three are at the discretion of very narrow minds.

*the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education