Professor Bans FOX News [PHOTO]: Prof. Stephanie Wolfe Prohibits Citing Conservative News Source in Political Science Class, 'Makes Me Cringe'

Professor Stephanie Wolfe at West Liberty University in West Virginia has prohibited her political science students from citing FOX News in their work, saying is makes her "cringe." Wolfe also, not surprisingly, disallows the use of The Onion as a source as well, saying, "This is note news this is literally a parody." Elaborating on her distaste for FOX News, the class syllabus reads, "Please do not subject me to this biased news station. I would almost rather you print off an article from The Onion." In an ironic turn of events, FOX News actually got a hold of the syllabus.

This obviously stirred up plenty of complaints from students and parents considering Wolfe's reason for banning the news source due to its bias is, well, very bias. Wolfe is actually a visiting assistant professor who is standing in for an instructor on leave. She has a 1-year contract with the school and has a doctoral degree from The University of Kent. Wolfe is still teaching the political science class but has since lifted the ban on FOX News from the syllabus. Hopefully she kept the interdict on The Onion since it is clearly a parody. 

West Liberty University president, Robin Capehart, released the following statement on the syllabus situation:

"One of our values at West Liberty is to encourage students to go out and inquire and gather information and look at as many different sources as possible on any side, before you reach your opinion. Any attempt to limit the breadth of a student's ability to investigate is obviously something at which we have a concern. Isn't the idea that you use what sources you can and then you have to defend the facts? To me that's what college is all about -- being able to conduct your research and conduct your own conclusions, and the professor needs to be able to challenge it."

According to a number of academic experts, Wolfe was not completely in the wrong for barring FOX News. It is apparently not the most reliable of sources. Last year's presidential race saw a prediction from FOX News analyst Dick Morris that Romney would have a landslide victory over Obama. When this did not happen, Morris had to release a whole report on why he was wrong and was then fired. Also, Live Science stated that 93% of FOX News' 2012 coverage of climate change was wrong.