Posted on 09/18/2013 2:05:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
On Sept. 1, Margaret Mary Vojtko, an adjunct professor who had taught French at Duquesne University for 25 years, passed away at the age of 83. She died as the result of a massive heart attack she suffered two weeks before. As it turned out, I may have been the last person she talked to.
On Aug. 16, I received a call from a very upset Margaret Mary. She told me that she was under an incredible amount of stress. She was receiving radiation therapy for the cancer that had just returned to her, she was living nearly homeless because she could not afford the upkeep on her home, which was literally falling in on itself, and now, she explained, she had received another indignity -- a letter from Adult Protective Services telling her that someone had referred her case to them saying that she needed assistance in taking care of herself. The letter said that if she did not meet with the caseworker the following Monday, her case would be turned over to Orphans' Court.
For a proud professional like Margaret Mary, this was the last straw; she was mortified. She begged me to call Adult Protective Services and tell them to leave her alone, that she could take care of herself and did not need their help. I agreed to. Sadly, a couple of hours later, she was found on her front lawn, unconscious from a heart attack. She never regained consciousness.
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I am sorry for your loss of a friends.
What is “orphan’s court”?
I’m so sorry. Sad ending in earthly terms; but now she is with her Maker. Was she a believer?
Mao's revolution, part II.
To clarify, I posted this, but it is not by me.
The adjunct professors are grossly under paid compared to the tenured professors who barely work at all in many cases. As long as they publish once in a while they are paid handsomely.
Well this will come before Obama’s NLRB and they will loose so he can cheer up.
While I think that colleges grossly mistreat adjuncts it is because of the glut of PHD’s in the liberal arts. She chose her course of study on her personal interest rather than on her ability to make a living from her acquired knowledge.
It is a sad story too often told
Speaking of sad I give you the author
Daniel Kovalik is senior associate general counsel of the United Steelworkers union.
The author seems to feel that making a martyr out of this woman will give meaning to her death.
Given that the dead adjunct could easily get the union lawyer on the phone I would surmise that poor deceased adjunct seems to be one of Duquesne’s union organizing activist.
Being in a union doesn’t mean squat.
I’m in one and they limit the number of credit hours I can teach “so everyone will have a chance”
Just take a nice chunk of cash out each of my paychecks.
Being an adjunct is a part time job. Sorry, but this lady should have realized that years ago.
That's easy. If they are obamists, they'll vote for the death panel.
In fact, if they are obamists, they already did.
At 83 years of age, why wasn’t she collecting Social Security?
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