Honor for professor draws criticism

Mine Ener's colleagues and former students at Villanova University are dedicating a memorial student lounge in her name, an honor that critics at the school call inappropriate for a professor who killed her baby daughter while in the throes of postpartum depression.

Ener, who committed suicide in a Minnesota jail less than a month after killing her baby, taught at the university's Center for Arab and Islamic Studies.

Villanova spokeswoman Barbara K. Clement said Ener's friends want to honor her work as a dedicated scholar and enthusiastic mentor, and hope to raise awareness about postpartum depression. But some students say such a memorial is out of place at a Roman Catholic university.

These students, apparently infected with a self-righteous, zealous and judgemental attitude, should be forced to undergo sensitivity training so they can learn to be more inclusive and grasp the meaning of diversity. (G)
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