He tried to fight his reassignment and suspension though his union, the Inter Faculty Organization, which represents faculty in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

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Some faculty members objected to an outside political organization trying to hold sway over which courses survived.

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"If too many more people leave, then the stench of death will start to permeate this organization, " Fraser-Liggett wrote in a memo to the TIGR faculty.

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