Posted on 02/26/2005 5:08:38 AM PST by billorites
The way I look at it, this joker has been storing up negative karma for years - from the AIM crowd, from his relatives, from former students like your daughter, from Indian artists whose work he stole, etc. And because he was under the radar -- just an obscure, mildly exotic (though self-created exoticism), goofy prof in a department that everybody knows is not a serious academic discipline -- nobody cared enough to do anything about it.
Where he stepped in it was believing that his own press releases and his own apparent invulnerability would protect him if he attacked the victims of 9-11.
That took him out of his little protective academic cocoon and into the REAL world, where people care about fraud, injustice, plagiarism, and cruelty. And now they are after him, and there is momentum, and it probably won't stop (may God in his infinite mercy grant) until justice is done and the whole edifice of lies comes tumbling down.
And that's a GOOD thing - especially for all the people like your daughter that he's hurt over the years. The wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine.
The era of non-judgementalism and political correctness was well in place when Bill Clinton escaped the gallows for just those reasons - morals were non-judgmental...I hope we're coming to the end of "scholarly bullies" and other such freebooters in our educational institutions who preach and publish anti-American rubbish and other “the sky is falling” diatribes.
We are again in agreement. My niece was treated to a D in a sociology course by a PC black Jamaican "Prof???" at Richard Bland College VA ( William and Mary satellite) because she wrote and delivered a very articulate critique of the course, as assigned specifically. The assignment was to do just that. I read the piece before she delivered it and it was fair, articulate, rational and detailed with all statements referenced with actual events. The guy used no books just ranted about his personal experience and how bad white people are. I will pay the President a visit shortly.
This goes on all the time at all the universities. At UVa you had BETTER be leftist or suffer the consequences.
It is time for the citizenry to cease being cowed by academe and realize the Emperor Has No Clothes. It just takes someone with the courage and good sense to point that out.
Aw...poor kitties!
I had a Siamese, too.
They are just the best cats.
he was refused access to the printmaking area.
he was angry.
he argued that he was a faculty member and should have privileges.
but, as i outlined above, the area and equipment are used by faculty for classes in the day time, and by students doing their classwork at night. printmaking requires a lot of room for the storage of papers, equipment, etc. while prints are being made, they must be temporarily stored in a rack which allows for drying. this stuff takes up space. obviously for even those enrolled in courses, politeness is required.
there's no room for an outsider who doesn't participate in the classes or culture. life's like that everywhere. you pay your dues, make friends, and help others.
if one person gained access, then another would demand access.
Wish it were true. It's kind of difficult to tell, when you are drowning in human waste, are you going down for the 3rd or 4th time?
Our local community college, in a conservative, agricultural area, is full of these types. Take a literature course and you get indoctrinated with radical feminism along with warmed over socialist hate-America garbage.
So, what do the locals write letters to the editor about? Faculty squabbles and tax issues. I have NEVER seen a letter or a newspaper article on the radical content of the curriculum.
You have hit the nail on the head! Churchhill could have lived out his life at CU, bedding coeds, teaching lies, getting free cigarets, having a devout following of naive kids, enjoying his status but he went too public, too outrageous. I think he believed his own lies. He reminds me of OJ.
Raise hell with the President and start a letter to the editor campaign advocating cutting off funds....include your representatives , state and Fed so they know you are looking to them IN WRITING to address this issue...hold the legislator's and governor's feet to the fire...advocate business drop support....on and on and on....if you just have the will and the courage to move your body....Good Luck... FREEP,,,,Picket....Raise HELL cut a wide and rational swath!!!
Sue in the courts for discrimination if they give bad grades out of hand as they invariable do....read the fairy tale The Emperor Has No Clothes....everyone was afraid of the Emperor and all ooohhhed and ahhhhhed at his costly taxpayer funded extravagant and priceless new clothes whice were a blatant and taxpayer expensive LIE...A little girl stopped all the deceit with a simple cry " The Emperor Has No Clothes"
try it.
I remember my first tangle with being judgemental.
One of my kids had played hooky for several days in high school at a girls school, expensive, college prep. I was raisiing the roof, called the school asking why I hadn't been told {she was 15}. I then suggested that we devise her punishment, I was ready to ground her for a year and the school told me they had discussed her "bad choice" and that I should sort of butt out, that I was harsh. Now I had worked very hard to pay the very high tuition and I considered her actions something a teen does {did it myself} but I also thought she ought to be aware of how hard we worked to give her that opportunity and how much she had disappointeed us. That is how I think a person acquires a conscience. But the school wanted none of it. They thought this had nothing to do with a conscience or guilt or honesty or human values,,,it was all just a "bad choice".
His words of wisdom apply here: "NEVER believe your own press releases." -- "Nobody is invulnerable, but powerful politicians sometimes think they are."
They key to this is money. That is it in a nutshell as far as the U thinks.
Now the decent faculty, they have a different key and that is to give them courage to speak out. A guy from the law school already has. And our support gives them cover to speak out.
But for the University, money is it. I am thinking, as is my daughter, of asking for our money back for that course. And they call me twice a year for money and I give like clockwork. I am waiting for the next call when I will refuse until Ward is fired and the entire ethnic studies department is gvien a look see by an impartial group. Maybe Accuracy in Academia.
"So, what do the locals write letters to the editor about? Faculty squabbles and tax issues. I have NEVER seen a letter or a newspaper article on the radical content of the curriculum."
Start writing DIFFERENT kinds of letters. FREEPERS will help you if you need...ask anyone posting to this thread...read and see who is articulate....give specific examples.....or just copy the Rabbi's editorial and PAY to run it in your local rag ( which is probably owned by a leftist conglomerate)
FEEOC has just turned racial grouping on it's head.
Why wait? Send a request now in writing 1) for a refund for the fradulent and abusive class and 2) instruct them not to ask you for money because it has dried up!. 3) post the letters here on FR to help others who do not have your level of skill and adroitness and to show others the specific courage involved instead of us all preaching to the choir. The time for ACTION is now. One must strike while the iron is hot...not wait with excuses until it has cooled down.
This admonishment is not directed toward you but to those of us who are not quite so accustomed to dealing with academic intimidation. You could start a REAL FREEP !!! Gee sounds like fun!
These are all good ideas, and they might work, somewhere in America . . .
My state is dominated by liberals, however, and too many voters suffer from attention deficit.
I am not totally without hope, though. While in the past, our state legislature was totally owned by the NEA and the education lobby, I think things are loosening up. More Republicans are involved, the Internet has helped, and home schoolers are such WONDERFUL advocates for common sense. Yeah, there's hope.
Now is the time to strike, while the iron is hot.
Some might call it "piling on" - I would call it taking advantage of the strategic moment, and, besides, this low-life excuse for a professor DESERVES to be piled on, preferably by elephants and ten ton weights.
Write a letter and share it here on FR
....a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.... courage and action
What if ALL interested parents wrote letters demanding refunds.....CC to the Rocky Mountain Post....PILE ON !!!
And that may be the last straw for the regents at CU-Boulder. Given the fact that The O'Reilly Factor is Fox News Channel's #1 rated show, that type of bad publicity will cause a massive "blogstorm" against Professor Churchill and CU-Boulder--fearing the possibility of losing a lot of donation money--will offer Professor Churchill a golden parachute payment in return for his resignation.
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