Professor Churchill is deeply saddened.
Posted on 04/23/2007 6:21:16 AM PDT by Melissa 24
Professor Fired Over Va. Tech Discussion Monday, April 23, 2007 BOSTON — An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow." The five-minute demonstration at Emmanuel College on Wednesday, two days after a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus, included a discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public's "celebration of victimhood," said the professor, Nicholas Winset. During the demonstration, Winset pretended to shoot some students. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset to illustrate his point that the gunman might have been stopped had another student or faculty member been armed. "A classroom is supposed to be a place for academic exploration," Winset, who taught financial accounting, told the Boston Herald. He said administrators had asked the faculty to engage students on the issue. But on Friday, he got a letter saying he was fired and ordering him to stay off campus. Winset, 37, argued that the Catholic liberal arts school was stifling free discussion by firing him, and he said the move would have a "chilling effect" on open debate. He posted an 18-minute video on the online site YouTube defending his action. The college issued a statement saying: "Emmanuel College has clear standards of classroom and campus conduct, and does not in any way condone the use of discriminatory or obscene language." Student Junny Lee, 19, told The Boston Globe that most students didn't appear to find Winset's demonstration offensive. Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Wow. America, I hardly knew ye.
Professor Churchill is deeply saddened.
Ridiculous. Is there any climate in the USA more wussified than our colleges and universities?
Ridiculous. Is there any climate in the USA more wussified than our colleges and universities?
I know the phrase is overused, but if his firing isn't a classic hysterical liberal kneejerk reaction to what ought to be a perfectly normal discussion on current events then I don't know what is.
We have to take back AMERICA.
this is rediculous.
The time has clearly come when we need alternatives to most US colleges and universities.
How about civil service or military service for the patriotic, self-disciplined, or mature?
ping
The core of liberalism is not concern, not compassion, not reason, not goodwill— it’s self obsession. Case in point.
To defend oneself isn't following the liberal dogma.
Piss off a liberal, stay armed!
Perhaps in the future he'll stick with the topic he was hired for.
I strongly suspect that this is an example of academic political correctness run amok, but there is something about he report that suggests there may be more here than is being reported:
The college’s statement is a non-sequitur if the adjunct was fired for a colorfully illustrated discussion of the right to self-defense. There is nothing ‘discrimanatory’ or obscene in the the instructor’s language or behavior as reported. I would have expected the statement to have included instead some imbecility about the inappropriateness of ‘simulated weapons’ in a classroom discussion if the cause of his firing is as reported.
Of course, I admit that the offices which issue such statements, and worry themselves about ‘discrimanatory’ language, are not hotbeds of rational thought, so it may well be the case that the college’s statement simply is a non-sequitur.
Still, despite agreeing with the reported point the instructor was making, and seeing nothing at all wrong with the classroom method reported, I’d like a fuller report before forming an opinion of the justice or injustice of his dismissal.
a MARKER, as in a dry erase board marker????
In today’s climate actual crimes are nothing. Words are everything.
I dunno, in this case it might be just good old nonsectarian/nonideological academic moral cowardice.
The message from the liberals is clear that women are good and men are evil and that what men need is to be more like women or be punished.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.