Chalk up another tally in the support column for Kansas University’s Dennis Dailey.

On Monday, KU’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences issued a public letter of support for Dailey, the award-winning professor of social welfare whose human sexuality class has drawn the wrath of conservatives in the Kansas Legislature.

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The letter was posted this morning on KU’s web site. In it, the liberal arts and sciences faculty members joined the school of social welfare faculty in supporting Dailey.

“We also reaffirm the unique and vital role of the University in a democratic society as a community of learners in which inquiry in all fields of knowledge is freely pursued and ideas exchanged without fear of suppression and censorship,” the faculty members wrote.

Lawmakers approved a bill, which the governor vetoed, aimed at shutting down Dailey’s class.

Sen. Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, charged he showed pornography, did not condemn sex with children and made inappropriate remarks to women in the class.

Wagle has also gone on the nationally syndicated Fox News program, the “O’Reilly Factor” several times in the last month.

An investigation into Dailey’s class, led by David Schulenberger, provost and executive vice chancellor, found that “the complaint does not have merit.”