Menchu is a political icon, and her book jibes with a liberal political agenda. So Dartmouth professor Marysa Navarro, as well as others nationwide, still assign Menchu's book to their students. People don't want to discuss this because Rigoberta Menchu is an icon. He wasn't, though, but in today's academy, politics trumps scholastic integrity every time. In fact, official data show that 150,000 women may suffer from the disease, but only about 100 die each year from it.
Colleges often use more than intimidation tactics to silence dissent from the party line.
In short, Hollister's speech cost him his pay. Recently, China ousted two scholars from the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, after the scholars published an essay calling for political and economic reform. They are prohibited from ever again publishing their views in government publications. The liberal educational tradition of the West, in contrast, has historically relied not on a particular ideology, but on the quest for truth.