Posted on 05/01/2008 4:19:13 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A former Dartmouth College teacher and medical school researcher sent e-mails to some of her former students saying she plans to sue them because they "harassed, compromised, abused or discriminated against" her.
Priya Venkatesan, 39, who received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1990, last week e-mailed the former students in her Science, Technology and Society course with the news that she is pursuing a federal civil-rights lawsuit against some of them.
Venkatesan, now at Northwestern University, said in an interview with the Valley News that she is still searching for a lawyer to take her case and would name as many as 15 students as defendants. She said Dartmouth itself and two professors also might be named.
(Excerpt) Read more at fosters.com ...
Went to the link. Is the story still being written/editted?
“She said the students had not made overtly racist or sexist remarks to her, but that she suspected the disrespect some of them showed her may have stemmed from her ethnic background or gender. In one instance, she said, a student contradicted her during a lecture on feminism and science, drawing applause from some of his classmates. Venkatesan said she was “horrified” and canceled class for a couple of days.”
ROTF! After this incident she should have been fired by her liberal-educrat institution for not understanding and using the weight of the grading pen when it comes to student “insubordination”!
The source is a little garbled, but it appears she’s suing her former students for not agreeing with her, and not listening to her lectures with reverent Ooh’s and Aah’s.
Is observing that someone is dumb as a box of rocks a civil rights violation?
When I went to the story at the link, half of it had been cross through. Anybody know why?
Sounds like a student contradicted her in class and other students clapped. She doesn’t know why they disrespected her but thinks it might be because of her gender or ethnicity. So she is suing them. All of them.
Did I get that right?
I thought you were supposed to do that BEFORE announcing your suit.
Yes, you got it.
They should get an "F" in Drone class.
Got an E-mail...to give a new meanning to discrespect
The women is lucky the students are not sueing her failure to deliver on the paid for service (cancelling classes because she got a question in prior class).
I have taught at an Ivy league University for 31 years (undergrads, grad students and professions students in science/medicine). If your not ready to field questions and even challenges to points you make in a lecture...you shoudl not even set foot in the classroom.
Since calling anyone some name is NOT against the law or anything else.
Perhaps she should go back to India.
“Racism” or whatever the commies want to name as such is also NOT against the law.
Perhaps she should get a life and also some knowledge as to how America works.
Too bad her education here in America did not include civics.
Shish - what a whuss.
Yes I think she should return to India and start all over.
LLS
Skid marks,panties,coat hangers,abortions.......?
Perhaps there’s no market for lecturers in “feminism and science” in India. Useful skills seem to be important there.
What’s really bad is how much the students’ parents (and the U.S. taxpayer) are paying for this kind of drivel. It would be fun if the students got together, found a lawyer with a sense of humor, and counter-sued her for wasting their time and money.
” So left-wing teachers don’t just fail you anymore for disagreeing with their orthodoxy - they sue you now? “
Wait until they learn there are some students who vehemently reject their professors orthodoxy yet regurgitate it on the exams and papers as if they’ve learned something.
There have been several articles published about this kooky dame. At one of them, there was a sample of her writing from a book she published on postmodernism. I never read more confusing garbage in all my life!!
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