Background checks rile professors

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | 8/5/04 | Mary Beth McCauley

[wagglebee]

I'm not all that concerned about the minor scrapes with the law these leftists had 20 or 30 years ago, but I'm very concerned about the leftist, extremist and terrorist links these educators/indoctrinators have today.

[Slings and Arrows]

I'm not sure it should be a law, but if you DON'T run a background check -criminal and personal - on an employee these days, you're a damn fool. I am a professor, and know personally of instances where this would haved a lot of people a lot of grief. Also, as Mike Adams has pointed out (see http://www.townhall.com ), background checks on students are just as necessary.

[Carry_Okie]

I wonder how many of these professors demand background checks on gun buyers?

[William Tell]

What's the fuss, professors? I've had to prove my clean record 15 times in the last ten years to purchase firearms.

I don't remember the academics claiming before that "...the suspicion that everyone may have something to hide dampens morale without predicting future crime. "

What a revelation. Academics against the Brady Law. Or is it only their own backgrounds that needn't be checked?

[Exeter]

"When the murder came to light last summer, some of his Penn State colleagues told reporters that he had been an exemplary professor."

Yeah, but how many of his colleagues ever accepted an invitation from him to go fishing?

[Paleo Conservative]

Much of the furor is fueled by the discovery last summer that college professor Paul Krueger spent four years teaching at Penn State University before the school learned that he had murdered three fishermen 40 years earlier.

He committed it in my hometown of Corpus Christi.

Penn State professor a Texas parolee (for triple murder)

[Slings and Arrows]

Not this one.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Advocates and opponents alike agree that if nothing else, the trend reflects universities' efforts to protect themselves.

Sounds like a civil litigation problem far more than a crime risk problem. If most or all the professorial crimes have come up with the offender's previous background clean as seems to be implied here, it looks like a solution chasing a nonproblem.

[Servant of the 9]

"Why the professor of medieval poetry should go through this is hard to understand," he says.

Because they are being hired to be authority figures for our children.

So9

[Congressman Billybob]

If the criminal record includes sexual abuse or drugs, it is a near certainty that the crimes will be repeated on the campus. However, I agree with you that the politics of the professors are a much greater problem than their criminality.

Congressman Billybob

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[phxaz]

here is a background check for the professors: tell us your background. if you lie you must return all salary received. sign here.

[phxaz]

no, thats not why. its a breeders decision who they entrust their offspring to, checks or no. background checks are necessary because the citizens of the us subsidize colleges and universities.

[TexasTransplant]

Seems like the Profs don't want to live in the World that they helped to Create.

I love the Internet!
In the past it was said "God made Man, Sam Colt made them Equal"

Now it can be said "God made Man, Algore made them Equal"

[Grampa Dave]

"I'm not all that concerned about the minor scrapes with the law these leftists had 20 or 30 years ago, but I'm very concerned about the leftist, extremist and terrorist links these educators/indoctrinators have today."

With many like al Kerri, it is part of their total package.
Many of the left wing professors and rats in politics started their careers as mini terrorists on the streets of America. Then the more successful ones took that hatred of America and our military and used it to get elected to public office. Some even became governors, congressits and senators. One became president and now a second one is trying to be our president.

Another question about the left wing professors how many have had serious criminal acts buried by the campus police to keep the name of the university clean and pure?

[Nip]

The college professors have forgotten something very important. They have been HIRED by the PARENTS who have sent their children to that particular college to provide a higher level of education to their children.

That in a nut shell is what a college education is all about.

Those EMPLOYEER/PARENTS have a right to know who is teaching their children. That goes beyond the bits of parchment that are hanging on office walls.

Those EMPLOYER/PARENTS have the right to review what they are getting for their money and if they are not satisfied they have the RIGHT to change colleges; or demand changes in that college.

Life was so easy when the student radicals of the 60’s took control of higher education and they could collectively ignore the world.

Like life outside the ivy covered fortresses of the liberal left, many things have changed after September 11, 2001. Free market forces are a real bummer (to quote the old radical down the street).

[Grampa Dave]

"I wonder how many of these professors demand background checks on gun buyers?"

Excellent question, Doctor CO!

[Vigilanteman]

"Why the professor of medieval poetry should go through this is hard to understand,"

Noam Chomsky is the best argument there is to explain this. A professor of linquistics (and a brillint one), he uses that as a stepping stone to promote his extreme anti-American views.

[HiTech RedNeck]

A prof who has smoked pot at home in the past, is a "near certainty" to smoke pot on campus in the future? News to me, though if a valid study proves it I can't argue.

[Windsong]

Not that I disagree with your argument, but only to state that their are NO children in college. Once their 18, they are an adult. If we can command them to fire an M-16 at a towelhead in some Muslim country, then we can afford them the trust to make their OWN decisions in college.

[Windsong]

their=they're