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KU professor steps down as chairman
KC Star ^ | 12/07/2005 | DAVID KLEPPER

Posted on 12/07/2005 4:23:48 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow

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To: RegulatorCountry

Were those actually written by the professor? Are they serious or sarcastic? In either case, they are very poorly written, very rambling. It is amazing what passes for reasoned thought among the "academics."


41 posted on 12/08/2005 5:24:37 AM PST by Blue Eyes (I love Lucy. How 'bout you? Do you love Lucy, too?)
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re: Thanks, but I don't want to drag everyone through another of these threads.)))

also know as a "hasty decampment"--

42 posted on 12/08/2005 5:32:45 AM PST by Mamzelle
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re: I'd say no to a general ping. I think it's been done to death.)))

In other words, we'd lose big. Better head back to the Instant Messaging watercooler and debrief.

43 posted on 12/08/2005 5:34:36 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: AndrewC
This is definitely a minor local victory for the yokel element in Kansas politics. It's a major disaster of the state of Kansas. Whatever Mirecki's transgressions, he is now in the world of academia an academic who was forced to drop a course, then beaten up, then forced into resignation by a mob of religious fundamentalists. That will be the inevitable spin, and it's close enough to the truth to be credible. Good luck relocating a scientist to Kansas. Good luck hiring a secular academic.

And since Nebraska competes with Kansas for students and faculty, yeee-haw! Come to Nebraska. We won't beat you up if you don't go to Church!

44 posted on 12/08/2005 6:05:13 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Senator Bedfellow
Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics

Open-minded. Yeah. Right. Kinda like The Klan is open-minded. The definition of atheist is to be close-minded to the idea of God or gods.

45 posted on 12/08/2005 6:07:02 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Right Wing Professor

A man who designs a course for the sole purpose of ridiculing other people's beliefs does not belong in the classroom. It isn't a bunch of "religious fundamentalists" who did this guy in. He did it to himself, and his colleagues apparently agree that he should step down as chairman of the department.


46 posted on 12/08/2005 6:21:33 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Senator Bedfellow

He hasn't got it together as much as Churchill.


48 posted on 12/08/2005 8:08:26 AM PST by tallhappy (Juntos Podemos!)
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To: Senator Bedfellow

Yay. Shoulda been fired, but this is a start. I love the way these problems just take care of themselves.


49 posted on 12/08/2005 8:54:34 AM PST by Tim Long (I spit in the face of people who don't want to be cool.)
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To: Mamzelle

Amazing the response when they've been exposed.


50 posted on 12/08/2005 9:06:48 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

I guess they have to put the whole forum on virtual ignore when they've made such idiots of themselves, or retreat to nattering about the fine points of this genome disgronification or that other disgronifier--as if they're really scientists, at all, and not some DU posers.


51 posted on 12/08/2005 9:19:57 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Right Wing Professor
..then forced into resignation by a mob of religious fundamentalists.

That's a very interesting way to describe his fellow faculty members.

From the article:

“Professor Mirecki said he thought it appropriate to step down and did so on the recommendation of his colleagues in the department and I have accepted his resignation,” Romzek said.
(Emphasis mine.)
52 posted on 12/08/2005 9:31:57 AM PST by Bob
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That's a very interesting way to describe his fellow faculty members.

Sure. And fundamentalist state senators threatening the Department and the University had nothing to do with it.

If you think either he or his colleagues acted as free agents in this matter, I have some nice land in Florida to sell you.

53 posted on 12/08/2005 9:38:41 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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Life for professor jerks who bully students may become considerably less free.


54 posted on 12/08/2005 10:06:33 AM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Senator Bedfellow

What's the frequency, Kenneth?


55 posted on 12/08/2005 2:04:00 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Right Wing Professor
then beaten up

Quite possibly self-inflicted.

56 posted on 12/08/2005 7:45:15 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: AndrewC
Quite possibly self-inflicted.

If you read Michelle Malkin, it's a virtual certainty. If you read the Daily Kos, to even suggest such a thing shows you are a horrible human being. I honestly don't know, but in the absence of any other evidence, I'll probably take the man at his word. I think something probably happened to him. What, when, how and where, well those are a bit more uncertain.

What amuses me is that some people are accusing him of being a media hound, while others are saying it's suspicious he won't talk to the media. And both sets probably agree the media are a bunch of lying hacks who will twist whatever he says to fit their agenda, so, surely, he'd be a damned fool to say anything to them.

57 posted on 12/08/2005 9:29:38 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
If you read Michelle Malkin, it's a virtual certainty. If you read the Daily Kos, to even suggest such a thing shows you are a horrible human being.

And if you do your own research, you find that a southern location as described in the reports of the attack make no sense. The University is N of his home and the location of the alleged attack is SE of his home away from places to eat breakfast, unless the meal is straight off the hoof. The nearest IHOP is West of his residence(3102 KS-10 Lawrence, KS 66046). When I first saw the location of the attack, I assumed he lived out in the country and was travelling towards the city. Gathering other information makes my initial assumption look fairly incorrect. It also gives indication as to why the professor is now mum.

58 posted on 12/08/2005 10:19:39 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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Well.... His street turns into CLINTON parkway as you go west..... Click and see
59 posted on 12/09/2005 6:01:20 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: AndrewC

He says he went out in the country to clear his head. And the best breakfast place in Lawrence, opening at 6 a.m., supposedly is right down on the southern edge of town.


60 posted on 12/09/2005 7:30:23 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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