Posted on 03/21/2013 1:01:26 PM PDT by massmike
A Florida Atlantic University student said he was punished after he refused a professor’s directive to stomp on a piece of paper with the word “Jesus” written on it. The university, meanwhile, is defending the assignment as a lesson in debate.
“I’m not going to be sitting in a class having my religious rights desecrated,” student Ryan Rotela told television station WPEC. “I truly see this as I’m being punished.”
Rotela, who is a devout Mormon, said the instructor in his Intercultural Communications class told the students to write the name “Jesus” on a sheet of paper. Then, they were told to put the paper on the floor.
“He had us all stand up and he said ‘Stomp on it,’” Rotela said. “I picked up the paper from the floor and put it right back on the table.
The young college student told the instructor, Deandre Poole, that the assignment was insulting and offensive. “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,’” Rotela said. ‘I believe it was unprofessional and I was deeply offended by what you told me to do.’”
Rotela took his concerns to Poole’s supervisor – where he was promptly suspended from the class.
Poole did not return calls seeking comment. According to his university profile, he has a PhD from Howard University and is authoring a book titled, “Obamamania: The Rise of a Mythical Hero.”
The university did not explain why students were only instructed to write the name of Jesus – and not the name of Mohammed or another religious figure.
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It may be one of those horrible required classes one must take to graduate. Finding any college these days that doesn’t require some sort of diversity re-education class is nearly impossible. So that leaves the student to choose the least offensive class they can find.
Now THAT's a great idea! It would immediately show his agenda in sharp focus.
Nope. It's "André" (French for Andrew), with that ghetto-pop "De" attached to the front of it.
n add-on for women you hear a lot in the northeast is "Sha", as in "Shamonique."
Amen to that.
Intercultural Communications class, sounds more like a page out of Hilter Nazi Germany’s propaganda and their physical annihilation of the Jews,after all Jesus was a Jew.
Is that ever true. A few years ago, I had a business editorial assignment dealing with "eyeball hangtime" -- a biologically measurable aspect of human communication about how long people typically look at visual stimuli before moving on.
I went to several of the libraries at an Ivy League university, including its renowned school of communications, to research the issue. Not only was there no information or scholarly work on this practical phenomenon; but the vast majority of scholarly journals focused on communicating by, with or about gays and lesbians.
What?
Watch on right arm = leftie.
when is stomp Allah day?
cowards all of them and the school shows yet again that parents pay for nothing but a peice of paper to get a job and a left wing social agenda, next week feces sex is cool, marriage boring.
just said similar.
College today is about paying a lot fo money to get a piece of paper in order to get a job and a far left radcial social agenda, like homosexual marriage being good and cool
I’m sending mail now and I hope all of you on here will do the same, it;s time to speak up and demand this country be the once great strong country is used to be, a place where others want to come and work hard and follow their religion
See, that's exactly what I'm talking about; though far more interested on the how-it's-done of communication than doing-and-effective-doing than I am familiar with.
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> I went to several of the libraries at an Ivy League university, including its renowned school of communications, to research the issue. Not
> only was there no information or scholarly work on this practical phenomenon; but the vast majority of scholarly journals focused on
> communicating by, with or about gays and lesbians.
Just because the schools are pushing an agenda and ignoring actual education is not to say that actual education does not exist.
> What?
I'm inclined to share that reaction to the previous paragraph's conclusion.
An utter jackass posing as a professor at a less than first rate school.
His face would make an excellent target for a good ole stomping fest.
It’s the “Deand” part that sounds so feminine — as in Deanna.
We're not disagreeing.
The First Amendment is our protection — sometimes the only protection we have left — when liberals become hypocrites and start advocating intolerant attacks on “hate speech.” But because the Constitution is a secular document, it provides only partial protection at best. Obviously, when push comes to shove I'll take the Bible over the Constitution, but fortunately we don't have anything in our founding documents in America that contradicts Scripture. There are nations where Christians can't say that. Being a good Christian citizen of China or of the former Soviet Union presents challenges we don't face.
I'll give the CAIR people credit in at least one area. They really are being consistent with their principles of jihad. Islam is an inherently intolerant religion which will use persuasion and debate in places where armed force is either impossible or impractical. For a liberal to deny free speech is hypocrisy; for a Muslim to use free speech as a means to an end is entirely consistent with their core beliefs.
Of course, just because someone isn't a hypocrite doesn't mean they're right. Islam and liberalism are both wrong and both need to be fought.
I would have to get the Professor’s side of the story before I pass any kind of judgment in my mind on the matter. I am thinking that, most likely, the Mormon student overreacted, and made much ado about nothing, since the lesson itself says that refusing to step on it was part of the lesson itself.
...exactly so...the purpose of the exercise, apparently, was to guage why one might not commit the act of defacing an important symbol, and to comment on the importance of such such cultural symbols...I fail to see that the student was being forced to ‘stomp on Jesus’, which would then amount to an overt blasphemy and his reaction wuld be understandable...
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