Posted on 04/19/2006 2:01:59 AM PDT by rhema
Highland Heights, KY -- The Northern Kentucky University professor who encouraged her students to vandalize a pro-life display -- and then led them in trashing it -- has apologized. Dr. Sally Jacobson, a tenured 27-year British literature professor, issued her apology just days after saying she saw nothing wrong what she did. "I deeply regret my impulsive action in dismantling that display," Jacobson said late Tuesday. "It was a mistake of judgment for me to invite my students to participate in that action."
Jacobson told WKRC-TV in a taped interview that she hoped her actions did not damage the reputation of the college.
"I really love NKU and care very much about my students and don't want them to be harmed," she said. "At this point, I really want the university to be able to defuse the firestorm of attention around this."
NKU has suspended Jacobson and she will officially retire at the end of the school year. WKRC reports that other professors have taken over her classes for the remainder of the semester.
Local police are investigating the vandalism, which saw Jacobson and several students destroy a pro-life cross display Northern Right to Life set up in the grass outside the student center. A reported from the student newspaper caught Jacobson and her students destroying the display.
University officials authorized the pro-life display, meant to memorialize the 47 million babies who have died since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
NKU President James Votruba, who issued a statement Monday apologizing on behalf of the school, appreciated Jacobson's apology but said the infringement of free speech and the disregard for the exchange of ideas couldn't be tolerated on a college campus.
"This was a very serious lapse in judgment," he told the television station.
"You don't invite students to participate in breaking the law or inhibiting other's free speech. You just don't do that if you're a faculty member," Votruba said.
He indicated he thinks NKU has "responded appropriately" to the concerns about the vandalism.
Votruba said he and Jacobson will meet soon to discuss the professor's retirement.
Read prior coverage: Professor Who Vandalized Pro-Life Display on Abortion Placed on Leave
Professor Who Vandalized Pro-Life Display Defends Actions
College Professor Leads Students in Vandalizing Pro-Life Display on Abortion
Related web sites: Northern Kentucky University
No, she is going to pay for violating First Amendment Rights... and after her life is over... she will go to hell!
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absolutely agree!...how refreshing to find a college president with courage in this day and age!
Do you think she would have apologized or anything else if she hadn't been caught in the act.
I think not!
Just like Michael savage said those pro abortion is always and old yenta or someone that has no chance in getting pregnate
I have a feeling you'll come around to my way of thinking on this one.
Have a great day.
L
Wow, what a looker! Nice K-Mart earrings there...
You know its refreshing to see a NAZI brownshirt be punished for her actions. I hope she goes goosestepping off happily ever after. My guess is she will be hired by some "prgressive" college within the year. You have to hand it to the NAZIs, they stick together.
I hope she is prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
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I demand that she and her students who committed the vandalism be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Apology and/or HR action by an employer in no way negates the requirement for punishment under law for a criminal act.
I hope the courts punishe this bunch of "vandalism is free speech" slime so harshly that, forever more, the mere mention of "Jacobson, et al" will represent the fact that "free speech" does not include or condone vandalism of the property or labor of others!
Are some young people so desperate for a "hero" that they would follow in the steps of such bitter hags?
Handeled very well, imho. Decisive, effective, principled leadersiiiip. Maybe he will get the Harvard job.
Prosecute to the fullest extent of the law ! Make an example it is the only way to get the attention of the leftist's that the first amendment applies to everyone not just themselves.
BARF is right. Seems to be a requirement for leftists.
Sort of like Cindy the ditch witch.
Why?
"But their unborn babies? I don't give a damn about them."
She probably just thought she could get away with it.
The truly ugly face of "tolerance" and "diversity" on the college campus.
"'Any violence perpetrated against that silly display was minor compared to how I felt when I saw it.'"
As with most members of the Far Left, she simply doesn't "get it"!
Her "violence" was not against the "silly display." It was against the principles and ideas of liberty embedded in our Constitution and its First Amendment.
She views "how I felt" when she "saw" crosses placed there by other citizens commemorating the untimely deaths of babies as a greater "violence" than her leading students in an act which trashed a most basic concept of our Constitution.
No apology here: just a defiant attempt to avoid justice.
She has lost her job and admitted she was wrong. I hope the charges are dropped.
Wrong! She is retireing, with Pay. and She said that her actions were justified because She was Upset at the Disply.
This is the "Tyrany of the Left" that They can do what they want whenever they are "Upset" or "outraged" at anything a conservative does.
that their Moral outrage overrides the Law, or common Courtesy.
I hope She looses Her pension, and is arrested and put in Jail.
because that is exactly What the left always tries to do to
Pro-Life People.
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