INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Purdue University President Mitch Daniels on Wednesday denied trying to quash academic freedom while serving as Indiana’s governor, a day after an Associated Press report cited emails in which he opposed use of a book by historian and antiwar activist Howard Zinn.Conservative free speech advocates rose to his defense, saying it was appropriate for Daniels to express concern about what was taught in the state’s public institutions. The leader of the school’s faculty senate, meanwhile, said it was too soon to say if the university’s professors would conduct a review of Daniels’ actions.
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