Posted on 06/20/2018 10:23:55 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
Sexual harassment’ is omitting a middle initial in an author list
You don’t have to be accused of sexual assault to face a Kafkaesque proceeding at Cornell University that could deprive you the benefits of seven years’ hard work and money.
Not dissuaded by a third of its law school faculty going to court to force Cornell to follow its own Title IX rules, the Ivy League institution is now withholding a Ph.D. from a student for the crime of allegedly defending his professor.
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IIRC, several decades ago there was a math Phd candidate who was repeatedly denied his degree by a professor. The candidate cracked the prof’s head open multiple times with a hammer then went out for an evening of pizza and beer before turning himself into the police.
If you count tuition, food, living costs, etc....it’s near $80,000 per year to attend Cornell. Seven years? That means this guy invested near $560,000 (minimum) in them. For some reason, I don’t think he’s going to just walk away and accept this denial of the degree.
He’ll lawyer up and for each year they waste fighting him....he’ll just add on more income lost. When he wins, you can figure one of two things happen. They will either refund all his money lost (figure $2 million with lawyer fees and income lost figured into it) or grant him the PhD with legal costs covered. If I were them, I’d go and clean up this mess real quick.
Another reason to scuttle Title IX.
Granting the degree would get the harpies and harridans on Cornell’s case.
Hubris. The very definition of Ivy League schools. Self flagellating self important hubris.
Ah, that'd be our boy Theodore Streleski, a fellow whose history I related to a couple of friends who were PhD candidates until just recently. (One made it, one is pending). Teddy defended his hammer murder of his professor as "logically necessary" - he was a math major - and, as one of my friends remarked, who can argue with that?
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Thanks, grey_whiskers.
Bang bang Maxwell’s silver hammer came down on his head.
10 Year’s after my father got his PhD., he and a fellow student sued their advisor for plagiarism. The guy had been stealing other people’s work for years.
Cornell long ago became a Marxist craphole, esp. under Prof. George McT. Kahin and his trained Hanoi support group/program.
Kahin should never have been hired because of his reported ties to Red Chinese intelligence as far back as Indonesia in the 1950’s. His book “The US and Vietnam” is very deficient on Vietnamese history esp. about the Communists takeover of the north in 1945 and the horrors that followed.
Cornell was known for its engineering/science schools but when it comes to Liberal Arts, it became Lumumba Un. West. Now it is destroying science students. Who will they come for next, Pastor Niemoller?
Another reason to avoid biased elite private colleges. Attendees at state universities have at least some legal recourse against political discrimination. And there’s no left bias at all at schools like Liberty University.
“The guy had been stealing other people’s work for years.”
Academics is full of people who will fudge data, screw over colleagues, and a variety of other sketchy self-promoting things in order to ensure their place in the hierarchy. As long as they bring in grant money, the administrators don’t care.
I grew up in a time when idiots kept their compulsion to do stupid things in check for fear of getting their azz kicked....time to bring that back and in some cases, do a midnite end around on the Law.
Making these Leftist idiots afraid of the dark....
Anybody ever read “Unintended Consequences”?
Start futzing with people’s livelihoods and you might want to watch your back!
Some would argue that Cornell is a trade school. The trades include science and engineering
I don’t condone such actions, but I am amazed it doesn’t happen every day.
Even the title speaks volumes.
“allegedly defends” — as if defending ANYONE (even if abhorrent) is itself a crime.
The liberals are so blinded by hate they can’t even see they are the worst fascists since Mussolini (and are in fact worse in their end desires).
PhD candidates are slaves for their supervising professor.
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