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Professor Apologizes for Calling Student "Cockroach"
claremont-laverne.patch.com ^
| 4/23/13
| Bill Norris
Posted on 04/23/2013 8:26:04 PM PDT by Nachum
A Claremont McKenna University professor of made unprofessional statements but did not violate the schools harassment policy when he called a student a cockroach during a March demonstration, according to a report released Friday.
The results of the investigation led by Claremont McKenna Dean of Students Mary Spellman found that CMC professor Yaron Raviv did make an inappropriate comment to a Pitzer College student outside of Collins Dining Hall, but did not impede the free speech rights of the students.
CMC President Pamela B. Gann said in a statement accepting the findings of the report that Ravivs statements were unprofessional and did not reflect CMCs values.
But the report was also critical of the student demonstration that sparked the verbal incident.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apologizes; cockroach; professor; student
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Well, to be accurate, he called one a
f***ing cockroach.
That was a professional opinion.
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:26:04 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
I was called a “Rat” by a priest when I was about 5. And I remember it to this day.
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:28:09 PM PDT
by
South40
(I Love The "New & Improved" Free Republic!)
To: Nachum
Claremont McKenna Dean of Students Mary Spellman acted stupidly....
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:29:30 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
To: Nachum
Did Sargeant Schultz ever apologize to LeBeau for calling him a "Cockroach"?
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:31:18 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Nachum
Read the whole thing. The skinny is that a bunch of Pallie protestors were trying to bring shame on Israel for having checkpoints to enter the country. The protestors were setting up such a barrier on campus to garner sympathy and the professor, who was Jewish, was asked by other concerned students to check it out.
It doesn't say exactly what the protestors said to the prof to provoke the comment, but it it was the usual anti-Jewish bigotry, then the prof's comment was certainly understandable.
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:35:57 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Nachum
It sounds more like an insult to cockroaches in my professional opinion.
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:39:13 PM PDT
by
RC one
(If you see typos, I'm on an iphone.)
To: dfwgator
did you say cockroach?
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:40:46 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Nachum
To: Nachum
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:46:47 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Nachum
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:49:03 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Background checks, Mr. President? You first ...)
To: dfwgator
Interestingly, Robert Clary, the actor that played LeBeau spent WWII in Buchenwald and was the only member of his family to survuve the war. John Banner (Sgt. Shultz) was an Austrian Jew who had emmigrated to the US in the late 30s, but like Clary, had no relatives survive. Leon Askin (General Burkhalter) was also an Austrian Jew who fled Europe prior to the war.
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:52:55 PM PDT
by
stormer
To: Nachum
“Well, to be accurate, he called one a f***ing cockroach.”
An apology IS in order. After all, our country has only one true “f***ing cockroach” and he is the f***king cockroach in Chief!
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:54:44 PM PDT
by
Rembrandt
(Part of the 51% who pay Federal taxes)
To: Nachum; a fool in paradise
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:56:45 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Nachum
All I can think of with calling someone a cockroach is the movie Scarface.
I bury those cock-a-roaches.
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:57:19 PM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(If most people were more than keyboard warriors, we might have won the election)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
04/23/2013 8:58:14 PM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Liberty Valance; a fool in paradise; Slings and Arrows
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posted on
04/23/2013 9:04:56 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: Darren McCarty
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posted on
04/23/2013 9:09:06 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Vigilanteman
someday the American people will demand an end to the importation of our enemies into our midst (see today’s news cycle: “saudi arabian students increase 500% since 9-11”)
(but it may already be too late....)
To: stormer
Werner Klemperer, who played Colonel Wilhelm Klink in the show was born in Cologne to a musical family, Klemperer was the son of the renowned Jewish conductor Otto Klemperer and Johanna Geisler, a soprano. Klemperer was a violinist and an accomplished concert pianist. He broadened his acting career by performing as an operatic baritone and a singer in Broadway musicals. He can be seen playing in the violin section of the New Philharmonia Orchestra on the EMI Classics DVD Otto Klemperer Beethoven Symphony No. 9. at a concert performed on November 8, 1964, at London's Royal Albert Hall. He can also be heard as the Speaker in Arnold Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, in a 1979 live performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Klemperer family emigrated to the United States in 1935, settling in Los Angeles, where Otto Klemperer took up work as a conductor. Werner Klemperer began acting in high school and enrolled in acting courses at the Pasadena Playhouse before joining the United States Army to serve in World War II. While stationed in Hawaii, he joined the Army's Special Services unit, spending the next years touring the Pacific entertaining the troops. At the end of the war, he worked on Broadway before moving into television.
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posted on
04/23/2013 9:30:43 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
One of my old music instructors and father of a very dear friend served with Werner Klemperer in the Army. After the war he ended up playing in Spike Jones’ band - not exactly Broadway...
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posted on
04/23/2013 10:01:18 PM PDT
by
stormer
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