Professor's land acknowledgment sparks controversy

Image:  A controversial land acknowledgment in a class syllabus has Stuart Reges at odds with the University of Washington after administrators chastised the professor for a section they deemed inappropriate, offensive and irrelevant to the content of the course. For Reges, a longtime computer science professor at UW, the irrelevance is the point. In an act of protest, Reges broke from the boilerplate land acknowledgment text that UW encourages—but does not require—professors to...