http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/professor/ en-us Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:34:27 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131931/posts Until last year, Hassan Diab was leading the quiet life of a Canadian sociology professor. Prof. Diab was teaching at both Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, was said to be a popular colleague and teacher. After leaving the violence of his native Lebanon and earning his doctorate in the United States, Prof. Diab, 54, received his Canadian citizenship and appeared to settle into Ottawa. There, friends said he was a secular man with an interest in sociology and Middle East studies, and was not without a warm side. "He has a great rapport with students," said Carleton professor... The Globe and Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131931/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:34:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124785/posts The St. Olaf (Northfield, Minn.) professor who, in a well-read Huffington Post item, recounted tearing down McCain campaign signs has resigned. Per the Northfield News, it appears that Philip Busse was forced out. St. Olaf spokesman David Gonnerman issued the following statement Monday afternoon: "The St. Olaf College administration first learned of Phil Busse's self-admitted theft and destruction of campaign signs on the morning of Oct. 31 as a result of his posting on the Internet. "The St. Olaf administration immediately referred the matter to local law enforcement authorities and commenced an investigation of its own. "Mr. Busse has tendered... www.politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124785/posts#comment Tue, 4 Nov 2008 17:44:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097824/posts CSULB: Academic Senate distances itself from Kevin MacDonald's controversial works.LONG BEACH - The Cal State Long Beach Academic Senate has voted to disassociate itself from the writings of a controversial psychology professor who has been accused of having anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views. "While the Academic Senate defends Dr. Kevin MacDonald's academic freedom and freedom of speech, as it does for all faculty, it firmly and unequivocally disassociates itself from the anti-Semitic and white ethnocentric views he has expressed," according to the resolution Thursday. Responding to the resolution, MacDonald, a tenured professor, said "everyone has ethnic interests." "This is an... Press Telegram http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097824/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 05:24:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077592/posts A Yeshiva University professor left two years ago as a man - and returned last week as a woman. Literature Professor Joy Ladin, formerly known as Jay Ladin, 47, showed up for her first day of school sporting pink lipstick, a tight purple shirt and a flirty black skirt. She cheerfully strutted through the doors of the Midtown campus' main building, where she oversees the writing center. Many at the Jewish university are horrified by the presence of the transgender professor. Some fear the news could cut alumni donations. Ladin and the school won't comment on the situation, but some... ny post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2077592/posts#comment Mon, 8 Sep 2008 20:38:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073045/posts A 52-year-old man was being held without bail on suspicion of shooting at a traffic light in Westwood and having more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition in his van and a storage locker late last week, UCLA police said Monday. Gene Bush allegedly began firing at a traffic light at Broxton and Le Conte avenues shortly before midnight Thursday. Campus police responding to the shooting reported that they found Bush on the sidewalk, empty-handed but wearing a holster. They said that when they ordered him, at gunpoint, to get on the ground, he responded: "Not until everyone else gets here."... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073045/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:20:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072650/posts WESTWOOD Police Friday arrested a 52-year-old homeless man they say fired several shots in the air near UCLA while making anti-government statements. The man, was reportedly was in possession of more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition, was being held Monday without bail, according to police.  UCLA Police Department officers responded to reports of a shooting at Broxton Avenue and Le Conte Place, the edge of the campus, about 11:50 p.m. Friday. Officer said they found Gene Carlton Bush wearing a holster and standing empty handed, said UCLA police Sgt. Baguiao. The officers ordered Bush to the ground at gunpoint, but he... CBS 2 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072650/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017097/posts (IsraelNN.com) Jordanian University lecturer Ibrahim Alloush recommended on Al-Jazeera television this week that suicide bombers be equipped with small nuclear bombs. According to a transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Dr. Alloush said, "Whoever managed to get a martyrdom-seeker into Dimona, should consider how to get martyrdom-seekers into Dimona and elsewhere armed with non-conventional explosives - and perhaps even small nuclear bombs," he stated. "We should think in this direction." Alloush lived for 13 years in the United States, earning graduate degrees at Ohio University and Oklahoma State University, where he earned a doctorate in economics.... Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017097/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 22:51:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016717/posts Kevin MacDonald had just completed the first in a series of books that would come to define him. Awaiting feedback from his publisher 15 years ago, MacDonald sent his manuscript to a colleague in the psychology department at California State University Long Beach (CSULB). The feedback was not encouraging. "What troubles me most is that your criticism of Jews may be taken seriously by groups and individuals who both fear and hate Jews," Martin Fiebert wrote in a 12-point reply. "Your manuscript, unintentionally perhaps, reinforces the stereotype that all Jews, be they assimilated or not, are clannish, deceptive, and exploitive.... Jewish Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016717/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 05:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015971/posts Republican congressman Tom Tancredo has fired off a wisecracking press release saying he wants to be a professor of conservative politics at the University of Colorado -- a school often criticized by conservatives as being too liberal. The outspoken opponent of illegal immigration is suggesting classes in "English Only 101" and "American Assimilation." He's also proposing a 20-foot-high fence around the border of the university's Boulder campus. Tancredo spokesman T.Q. Houlton said Wednesday Tancredo doesn't really want a job at CU when he retires from Congress in January. He's just poking fun at reports that CU wants to establish a... CBS4Denver.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015971/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 20:23:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015841/posts Give retiring U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo a job at The Onion! The Littleton Republican got such a chuckle out of a Rocky story this morning about the University of Colorado's $9 million plan to bring high-profile political conservatives to teach on the left-leaning Boulder campus that he jokingly threw his hat in the ring. "I should be the clear favorite for the job," Tancredo said — tongue firmly in cheek — in a news release announcing he'd sent in his application. "Who doesn't want a slightly used Congressman, with a 98% lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, educating their... Rocky Mountain News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2015841/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 16:04:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012196/posts California State University, Fresno are investigating allegations by two students that a tenured professor threatened to bring a gun to class and start shooting. Meanwhile, the school has suspended 64-year-old Joe Parks, who has taught education at Fresno State for 10 years. A student said in a police report that during a discussion of a school shooting, Parks said he wished he could bring his gun to class and "shoot all of you." Parks denies making that statement during a teacher-preparation class in February, but concedes that he tends to be controversial in his remarks. Other students in the class... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2012196/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 23:11:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984733/posts CINCINNATI, March 12, 2008 – Scores of students at the University of Cincinnati will be surprised today to find their history courses taught by servicemembers in uniform instead of their familiar tweed coat-clad professor. For the second consecutive semester, History Professor Tom Lorman will yield the lectern to participants of the Defense Department’s “Why We Serve” outreach program, which places military speakers before audiences at venues across the United States. “The speakers will provide the students insight into what makes a warrior a warrior,” said Lorman, whose accent reveals his English upbringing. “You can’t hear from warriors of past,... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984733/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974045/posts (CBS/AP) A Columbia University professor whose colleagues found a noose hanging from her office doorway has plagiarized the work of others, the school says. Madonna G. Constantine denies the finding and says the accusation is racially motivated. The university's Teachers College announced Wednesday it had imposed "serious sanctions" against Constantine following a lengthy investigation it said uncovered "numerous instances in which she used others' work without attribution in papers she published in academic journals over the past five years." Constantine's lawyer, Paul J. Giacomo Jr., said his client could prove her innocence and called the school's investigation "extremely underhanded from the... CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974045/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:19:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964137/posts BOSTON—A longtime Brandeis University professor says he has been the victim of "vindictive persecution" by school administrators after he was found in violation of the university's nondiscrimination policy for describing a racist word in one of his classes. Politics professor Donald Hindley, who has taught at the Waltham school for 47 years, had a monitor placed in his classroom and was asked to undergo sensitivity training after he told students in his Latin American politics class last semester that Mexican migrants are sometimes referred to pejoratively as "wetbacks," according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which is aiding... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964137/posts#comment Sun, 3 Feb 2008 09:34:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1952147/posts Sex and the MLA by: Bethany Stotts, January 11, 2008 Chicago, Ill— It seems like some professors simply can’t get their mind off sexuality and have allowed this fixation to the color their professional work. A teacher of Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgender Queer (LBGTQ) studies at Santa Clara University, Professor Linda Garber asserts that she had, as an untenured professor, been nervous about teaching sex in class “and I decided, well, maybe for just a few years I could teach sexuality not sex.” She added “It didn’t work that way, partly because you find that it’s so normalized you forget;... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1952147/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:46:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928225/posts It was an unorthodox political endorsement, to be sure. And in throwing her support behind presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with an unprompted, heartfelt speech at a New Hampshire rally last month, Carole Simpson, the longtime ABC news anchor-turned-Emerson College journalism instructor, flung herself into the partisan fires. While Clinton was quite taken by the unexpected backing, quickly issuing a press release touting it, others have taken offense. Over the past month, news of Simpson's endorsement has barreled across the blogosphere, seized on by conservatives as proof of liberal media bias. And Emerson students and faculty continue to debate the ethics... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928225/posts#comment Tue, 20 Nov 2007 06:23:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914801/posts Archaeologists Challenge Barnard Professor’s Claims Marissa Brostoff | Wed. Oct 17, 2007 Amid charges of mud-slinging, a group of archaeologists turned to dirt-digging — literally — in their fight against a controversial fellow academic. On Monday night, Columbia University’s pro-Israel student group played host to the latest installment in a lecture series aimed, at least partially, at rebutting Nadia Abu El-Haj, whose work has been critical of the traditional narratives of Israeli archeology. Abu El-Haj, an assistant professor of anthropology at Barnard since 2002, first gained notice with her 2001 book “Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning... The Jewish Daily Forward http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914801/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:16:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914720/posts Hawkeye Discrimination by: Malcolm A. Kline, October 22, 2007 Professors at state universities continue to deny the existence of bias on their faculties despite mounting evidence of same. “27-0 at the University of Iowa,” Professor Mark Moyar writes on National Review Online. “It’s not the score of a Hawkeye football game.” “ It’s the number of Democrats versus the number of Republicans in the University of Iowa history department, and it has Iowans in an uproar.” Professor Moyar knows whereof he speaks. Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914720/posts#comment Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:13:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902184/posts Politically Correct Anthropology by: Don Irvine, September 25, 2007 Political correctness which has been invading academia with a vengeance has a new target- Anthropology. An ad-hoc group calling themselves the Network of Concerned Anthropologists is now circulating a petition on the internet called the Pledge of Non-Participation in Counterinsurgency whose central theme says that "Anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counterinsurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the 'war on terror.'"In other words it's an anti-war declaration for anthropologists. The organizers, two of whom are at George Mason University, feel that anthropologists... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1902184/posts#comment Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:39:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874899/posts Law professor claims improper punishment CHICAGO, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- A law school professor in Chicago is suing for $1 million over what he calls an improper punishment over comments he made comparing black and Jewish students. John Gorby, who is neither Jewish nor African-American, opined to a Jewish student after a class at John Marshall Law School that religious training may help explain why Jews pass the bar exam at higher rates than blacks, who tend to come from religions that "emphasize an emotional and spiritual religious experience rather than discussion and debate about the meaning of scriptural language,"... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874899/posts#comment Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:15:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857209/posts A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip.Parallel processing is an approach that allows the computer to perform many different tasks simultaneously, a sharp contrast to the serial approach employed by conventional desktop computers. The prototype developed by Uzi Vishkin and his Clark School colleagues uses a circuit board about the size of a license plate on which they... PhysOrg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857209/posts#comment Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:50:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848262/posts It seems that a prof that sees value in intelligent design theory has been barred from tenure. http://www.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2007/jun/statement.shtml Iowa State University http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1848262/posts#comment Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:07:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835816/posts An Italian university closed one of its campuses for the day Friday to prevent a planned lecture by a retired French professor who denies gas chambers were used in Nazi concentration camps. Robert Faurisson, who has been convicted five times in France for denying crimes against humanity, is expected to speak at a local hotel instead. The University of Teramo cited security fears in announcing the closure of its law, political sciences and communications departments. "[There is] a climate of tension which could put in danger the safety of the students," the university said in a statement. The Nazi-hunting Simon... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835816/posts#comment Fri, 18 May 2007 16:10:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825955/posts Wake Forest University religion professor Charles Kimball, an ordained Baptist minister whose books include "When Religion Turns Evil," spoke Sunday at the Levine Museum of the New South in uptown Charlotte. Here's some of what he said: • "It doesn't take many (religious fanatics) in our increasingly interconnected world community to wreck havoc ... A small number of people don't just affect a small number of people. Now, a small number of people can literally change the world." • "The vast majority of Muslims throughout the world are as horrified and offended by the acts of violent extremists as we... Charlotte Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1825955/posts#comment Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:41:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823996/posts ‘As a theory, I believe that intelligent design fits the evidence of biology better than Darwinian evolution.’ —-- MU Professor John Marshall A Columbia medical professor made his case for scientific acceptance of "intelligent design" last night and found himself taking fire from his peers for his view. John Marshall, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Missouri-Columbia, argued in front of about 100 people in a University Hospital auditorium that mainstream scientists were trying to kick intelligent design "off the playing field of science." At the heart of the argument for design, say proponents, is that elements... Columbia Tribune News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823996/posts#comment Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:28:48 GMT