FORTY FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS FOR THIS BOOK !!! And kids can't find jobs after they graduate....
Posted on 03/26/2013 3:00:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A Florida academic institution that had a professor tell his students to write the name Jesus on paper and trample on it has issued a formal apology for the lesson.
"This exercise will not be used again. The University holds dear its core values. We sincerely apologize for any offense this caused," said Florida Atlantic University, a multi-campus institution, in a prepared statement posted on its website.
"Florida Atlantic University respects all religions and welcomes people of all faiths, backgrounds and beliefs." FAU also stated that "no students were forced to take part in the exercise" and "that no student has been expelled, suspended or disciplined by the University as a result of any activity that took place during this class."
Last week, it was reported at various online outlets that a student at FAU was suspended for refusing to participate in a class assignment from a textbook for an Intercultural Communications class titled Intercultural Communication: A Contextual Approach, 5th Edition.
The assignment called for students to write the name "Jesus" on a piece of paper, put the paper on the ground, and stomp on it.
Ryan Rotela, a junior at FAU who was enrolled at the class, told local media that he went to school officials to protest the assignment.
"Anytime you stomp on something it shows that you believe that something has no value … So if you were to stomp on the word Jesus, it says that the word has no value," said Rotela to local media.
The professor who oversaw the class, Dr. Deandre Poole, is unaffiliated with FAU and is also chairman of the Palm Beach County Democratic Party.
According to his profile on the PBC Democratic Party website, Poole is a member of Lighthouse Worship Center Church of God in Christ, Fort Lauderdale, where he belongs to the congregation's usher board.
Poole said that the exercise was meant to encourage debate. However, Rotela told WPEC that the whole incident was "unprofessional."
"I said to the professor, 'With all due respect to your authority as a professor, I do not believe what you told us to do was appropriate," said Rotela.
News of the "stomp Jesus" class assignment made the rounds in many social commentator circles, with many seeing it as another example of secularist anti-Christian sentiment.
Fox News commentators, including former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee questioned if any program at FAU would have allowed "Muhammad" to be written on the paper and stomped instead.
By all means, please feel free to read and review this find “Stomp on Jesus” textbook. The Amazon reviews are kind of fun. But in all seriousness, we FReepers should FReep dumb textbooks like we do dumb polls.
If a value is truly a core value, one notices its violation immediately. The the University administration and its crappy professors did not notice or acknowledge their violation of their “core values” immediately, but instead set about to punish the student who objected to the offensive exercise. That is until the light was shined onto their abusive behavior. If this sorry joke of a university were my alma mater, it would not get a second chance to get a dime from me.
A complete lie. The only reason for the “apology” is that a large number of people contacted them.
The university hates Christianity and loves America-hating separatists.
He’s a member of COGIC...obviously his faith isn’t taken seriously as his stupidity
Oh that angry look is only meant to scare the clerk when he goes into a 7-11 to hold it up.
It appears a full resolution has been achieved, charges expunged, and class resumed under an “alternate professor:”
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/26/3307179/florida-student-declares-victory.html
For example, just four or five years ago we hired a registered republican to teach Keynesian economics.
LOL. Went to the Amazon site and the reviews are hilarious.
A bald-faced lie, obviously at odds with the "exercise" this charlatan engaged in. FAU does NOT respect all religions, and welcomes people of CERTAIN faiths but not others. Students WERE forced to take part and at least one student WAS expelled, suspended, or disciplined for defying this bigotry.
Telling a lie on fancy stationery doesn't make it any less a lie. All it does is destroy any shred of credibility that facsimile of an institution has left.
"We can confirm that no student has been expelled, suspended or disciplined by the university as a result of any activity that took place during this class,” the university said in a prepared statement. However, according to a letter written by Associate Dean Rozalia Williams, Rotela is facing a litany of charges -- including an alleged violation of the student code of conduct, acts of verbal, written or physical abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, coercion or other conduct which threaten the health, safety or welfare of any person....and the student is in fact suspended, whatever libtwist term is used to describe it.
Very Funny... was that sarcasm?
Google “Rozalia Williams” images... the deck is stacked!
This “university” should be comsidered a joke unless they fire that idiot profressor.
I think I would be permanently PO’d if my parents (or mother) named me “Deandre”) as a male.
What kind of a course is this, that the students wouldn’t just walk out on? No normal person would sit there and watch something like this take place. If someone would, I’d question their sanity.
Just thought about that a little more- He(?) may have chosen that name him/herself.
“I’m sorry... that I got caught. Lousy Christians...”
The meaning of the name Deandre is ‘Descendent of Andrew’
Davie southward is what lost Broward County to Obama. The early voting AND the mail in ballot AND the day of voting got all them 3 votes each for Obama.
I had to go to meet a colleague at a Davie Park and I was literally the only white person in anywhere in sight.
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