Wait. He's a Virginia Tech English teacher. Can he meet the job qualifications?!?
Posted on 09/12/2014 3:07:59 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
A former Virginia Tech English professor who lost a job offer from the University of Illinois over dozens of sometimes-profane Twitter messages that critics deemed anti-Semitic demanded Tuesday that he be given the position and threatened to take legal action otherwise.
Attorneys for Steven Salaita said during a news conference at a YMCA on the Urbana-Champaign campus that they believe the university’s Board of Trustees will make a decision on his hiring during a meeting scheduled for Thursday. If he isn’t given the job, they said they’ll go to court to try to get an injunction to force the university to hire him.
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The guy has no tenure, and thus no rights by state law...end of the story. He may think he can bluff his way through this, but if they accept this argument, it opens up a huge door for all kinds of future issues.
“Never overlook an opportunity to keep your big mouth shut.”
Offer him a groundskeeping job at $1 per year.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that anyone is guaranteed a job.
Wait. He's a Virginia Tech English teacher. Can he meet the job qualifications?!?
Native American studies professor. Shocking.
If the offer was withdrawn before he accepted it, pfffft! All gone
Article says he has a wife and young child. Too bad. If he were gay, he’d not only get his job back but the judge might just marry him too!
Bring your lawsuit, jackoff.
How about the position of human sandbag on the firing line? It fits his mindset perfectly.
Wait. He's a Virginia Tech English teacher. Can he meet the job qualifications?!?
My answer would be... “Well sue then you dumb ass”......
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