Students fight to save social work program

The Springfield News-Leader reports today on Missouri State University students' efforts to save the university's social work program, which came under fire after a lawsuit filed by Emily Brooker.
Miss Brooker sued MSU after a professor required her and her fellow students to write letters to the Missouri legislature supporting gay adoption. The university settled the lawsuit, but a report last week blistered the social work program:

Many of the students took issue with the report and offered to help Etta Madden, the acting director, and faculty to come up with a plan to correct issues raised in the report.

The program must issue a plan to the provost by May 1 that would show how the changes would be implemented.

"It would be a tragedy if we lost this program," said social work major Wendy Phiropoulos of Springfield.