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Former JFK professor sues over firing she says was prompted by burlesque show
Contra Costa Times ^
| 3/14/11
| Matt Krupnick
Posted on 03/14/2011 5:59:27 PM PDT by SmithL
An Oakland college professor has sued John F. Kennedy University, arguing she was fired after her bosses discovered she performed with a Bay Area burlesque group.
In her federal suit, filed last week, Sheila Addison said she lost her job teaching marriage and family therapy at the Pleasant Hill-based university after administrators found out she was performing anonymously as "Professor Shimmy" with the Hubba Hubba Revue. A male professor who stripped down during a separate show kept his job, Addison argued.
The university issued a short statement Monday, calling the lawsuit "completely without merit." A university spokeswoman did not respond to phone or e-mail messages.
Addison's attorney, Greg Groeneveld, said the burlesque performances were the only reason given for the professor's firing in a letter from JFK President Steven Stargardter in June. Groeneveld declined to provide the letter.
Stargardter told Addison her actions were "adverse to the interests of the university," Groeneveld said. But Addison never mentioned the university or her occupation during the burlesque shows, which mix stripping, commentary and comedy, her attorney said.
"Like all artistic performances, it needs to be enjoyable, at least to the audience," Groeneveld said. "But there also is a political and social message to it."
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: burlesque; jfk
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posted on
03/14/2011 5:59:30 PM PDT
by
SmithL
I knew you'd ask:
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:00:01 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
That frigging tsunami hit on the
wrong side of the Pacific.......
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:01:31 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)
To: SmithL
Those who can’t do, teach
Those who can’t teach, strip.
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:02:23 PM PDT
by
PGR88
(I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
To: PGR88
To: SmithL
And to think....Gypsy Rose Lee made the cover of
"Life"
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:06:44 PM PDT
by
Emperor Palpatine
(Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
To: SmithL
Er, why does the photo keep changing, I wonder?
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:11:21 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(With a Bocephus sticker on his 442, he'd light 'em up just for fun)
To: DemforBush
Ah, never mind. It’s a hotlinker thang.
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:12:24 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(With a Bocephus sticker on his 442, he'd light 'em up just for fun)
To: SmithL
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:18:06 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: SmithL
Someone please buy her a mirror, and super-size it, willya??
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:30:54 PM PDT
by
trailz
To: SmithL
John F. Kennedy University
I never even heard of this school. Continue to learn something everyday from FREEPERS.
To: SmithL
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posted on
03/14/2011 6:59:17 PM PDT
by
Judges Gone Wild
(Who are these uncircumcised to oppose the armies of the Living God?)
To: SmithL
"I'm just interpreting this as the university punishing a woman for expressing her sexuality in a positive way," she said. "We have to ask what would happen if she were in a play where she was topless." Uh, she'd be cold?
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posted on
03/14/2011 7:41:25 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
To: SmithL
That’s adverse to a lot more than the university. Guilty as charged. Bailiff, please escort out the complainant!!!
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posted on
03/14/2011 7:50:36 PM PDT
by
Defiant
(The One must become the "One and Done".)
To: JoeProBono
To: org.whodat
Put it on! Put it all on!
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posted on
03/14/2011 8:10:13 PM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: org.whodat
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posted on
03/14/2011 8:14:46 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: JoeProBono
To: SmithL
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posted on
03/15/2011 6:42:25 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: SmithL
`bout the best thing you could say about her is she has nice teeth
That would be a hoot to see her working the pole.
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posted on
03/15/2011 3:37:50 PM PDT
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
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