It would be helpful to readers if the authors of this article clarified the following issues. 1. Is academic freedom at stake in this case? 2. Which individuals are being accused of misconduct? 3. Does the alleged misconduct include mishandling discussion, as well as commenting publicly on a colleague?

1. Academic freedom is at stake for graduate students in this case regarding their ability to lead classes as best as they're able without fear of death threats and being chased out of the school because a tenured professor wrote lies about them. McAdam's academic freedom does not entail smearing students on his blog. Undergraduates' academic freedom does not entail holding professors' class content hostage to their own, less educated, views on matters (especially when those views are irrelevant to the content as in this case).

2. McAdams

3. The alleged misconduct regards McAdam's blog activity regarding Abbate. The review process is confidential so specific details aren't going to be available to any of us.

2. McAdams alleged misconduct on Abbatte. But he was not there and have a one-sides account which Abbate says is filled with misinformation and fictional quotes.
3. McAdams IMO should have brought his concerns to admin before blasting a grad student on his blog. At least he should have gotten Abbate's side of an event before "reporting" on something he was not present for.

If they were being good reporters they would put out there that this O'Rourke kid is the source of the whole controversy...

My Father was a Marquette graduate. It is a Catholic Law School. If you have trouble with that issue how much trouble do you have discussing what the Bible has to say about homosexuality such as in this passage.
Leviticus 20:13

“‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

Does this mean that the Bible is to be banned from Marquette as McAdams is? And when Science just implicated that homosexuality is caused by a defect to the serotonin regulation gene does Marquette University then ban science classes because they offend those of the gene?
http://www.towleroad.com/20...
When a college or University System becomes invalidated for the above reasons, then we see the introduction of free two year community colleges come into existence! Why? Because you couldn't handle the truth! What a great shame! A University that can't handle the truth; putting all those graduates out into the world of professional high paying careers and political appointments!

Catholicism and the Bible have nothing to do with whether or not Rawls' Equal Liberty Principle would prohibit bans on gay marriage. If we were to demand that every classroom conversation be peppered with Biblical references, no matter how irrelevant, education would be impossible.

You are taking the issue out of context. That is a Catholic University and the theme of the class encompassed the matter. Rawl's sounds like Tennessee Whiskey bottle hick to me.