Posted on 07/18/2013 5:44:01 PM PDT by don-o
BOCA RATON, Fla. - There have been major changes at Florida Atlantic University since the 'Jesus Stomp' assignment made headlines.
Former president Mary Jane Saunders stepped down from her job, and the professor who used the controversial exercise was reinstated.
Now school leaders are answering questions on what was learned from the ordeal.
"How do we deal with sensitive issues? How do we deal with academic freedom, because this is where we're supposed to enjoy it, and at the same time balance that with responsibility," said Interim Dean Heather Coltman at the College of Arts and Letters.
Last Spring a student complained when a professor at the FAU Davie campus asked the class to write the letters J-E-S-U-S on a piece of paper and contemplate stepping on it. That complaint started a firestorm that forced the professor on paid administrative leave, and even prompted Governor Rick Scott to become involved.
Technically the 'Jesus Stomp' exercise is allowed back in the classroom, but that doesn't mean faculty will use it.
"People will think twice about using that particular exercise in that setting, although there have been faculty who say they want to use it just to make a point," said professor Tim Lenz.
In a letter to the State University System, FAU's provost outlined extensive training for faculty come fall. It will focus on how to deal with controversy while respecting academic freedom.
"I thought it was a sensitive statement that reflected the university's responsibility to provide a safe environment and one where students will feel free to comment in class.
what if a student suggests a Koran stomp?
Use the Hispanic pronunciation, HEY soos (The Hey soos Stomp) and see if all hell doesn’t break loose during the “national conversation” about “immigration” that the commie pigs are having with each other. The race cards would be flying!!!
Mr. Mercat and I were walking back to our car from our favorite restaurant in Lawrence Kansas near where we live when we saw a bunch of words written on cardboard and taped to the ground where people would walk on them. There was music playing and it was some sort of “happening” like you see in college towns. I saw the word “Jesus” so I pulled it up. I still wish someone had confronted me about it.
a student who does OBAMA STOMP or ALLAH STOMP would be expelled
Leave it up to the studenrs? Would they rather stomp on Jesus or allah—or the prof?
How about a Saint Trayvon stomp?
How about Professor Stomp? Or Bill Ayers Stomp? Or Gay “Rainbow” Flag Stomp?
(It seriously ticks me off that the rainbow has been taken over by the homo/lesbos.)
What about a Trayvon Martin stomp?
What next? The Moses dump? This university has some serious employee problems from Jihadists to Marxists.
So where is the so -called conservative governor? Hiding from the fall-out of the appointment of Prosecutor Angela Corey to the Zimmerman trial, no doubt.
Florida needs a good political enema of the conservative kind. Got to get rid of the Crists’, RINOS, Grayson’s, Wasserman-Putz, etc.
No professor ever will.
Regarding expressions of hate against Jesus and his followers promoted by pagan university professors, I remember an earlier thread which mentioned Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist.. Florida professors evidently don't understand concerning Tinker that, “students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," a statement which applies to the example of this thread imo. I think that the Supreme Court's conclusion likewise protects the religious aspect of 1A-protected freedoms.
I also think that Florida citizens should consider working with their state lawmakers to make punitive laws to protect students in such cases. Such laws would help prevent activist judges from letting so-called professors get away with wasting students' time with such things.
I think I see the problem.
They think "academic freedom" means that they are free to inflict their will and beliefs on the students.
The concept of the students having academic freedom (the very people to whom it actually applies) is an alien concept to them.
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