After more than a month of public silence – even on the Twitter account that apparently cost him a job at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Steven Salaita spoke out Tuesday. The would-have-been tenured professor of American Indian studies whose offer was pulled weeks before classes started staged an off-campus news conference and granted media interviews, asking for his job back.
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