Posted on 03/30/2016 6:07:44 PM PDT by marshmallow
Marquette University has delayed the termination of Associate Professor John McAdams, opting to suspend him without pay through the fall 2016 semester, but University President Dr. Michael Lovell is demanding an apology from McAdams as a condition of getting his job back over his November 2014 blog post criticizing a graduate student instructor who bullied a student for arguing against same-sex marriage.
McAdams said in a recent radio interview that he'll apologize, "When hell freezes over."
The blog post in question sparked national headlines and a heated debate about academic freedom following the University's disciplinary actions against McAdams for exposing the philosophy instructor's recorded comments. The instructor, Cheryl Abbate, told a student who was arguing against the acceptance of same-sex marriage that "you don't have a right in this class to make homophobic comments," calling the student's position offensive and "not appropriate."
McAdams was suspended from his tenured faculty position, banned from campus and later told he would be fired for publicizing the name of the graduate student instructor, Abbate, who received a number of nasty and negative comments from the public in reaction to the story.
On Holy Thursday last week, Lovell issued a statement that he plans to implement the recommendation of a Faculty Hearing Committee regarding the University's dispute with McAdams. "While I cannot provide specific details of the recommendation because it relates to a personnel matter," he said, "I can assure you that my decision has been guided by Marquette University's values and is solely based on Professor McAdams' actions, and not political or ideological views expressed in his blog."
In a post on his Marquette Warrior blog on Holy Saturday, McAdams revealed that Lovell sent a letter to him stating, "I have decided to accept your fellow faculty members' recommendation to suspend you without pay.
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Hooyah! A BTT for academic freedom!
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So we have the leadership of a “catholic” university bullying someone for criticizing someone for bullying someone? I think the local Bishop should stand in the pulpit and excommunicate a few people.
Sounds like a real man. He should set up a donation page. I’ll bet a lot of people would like to help him out.
Amen! Kudos to John McAdams.
Good man. Obviouslynthe only lib arts faculty member there with both brains and cojones.
And always remember, the fewer Jesuits leading the university, the more Catholic it will be.
This “university” needs to be shunned by all conservatives and Christians. Satan is obviously in charge there.
Liberal fascism in all its glory
The photo is the good Prof, and the link below is for the SOB who demanded he apologize:
http://www.marquette.edu/president/about-lovell.php
Marquette’s “values” include propounding “social justice” according to the advert I saw during halftime of a Marquette basketball game this season. I guess “social justice” at a Catholic university includes firing a prof. for making a statement in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church. It’s a bizarro world.
Does this fine man have a page set up anywhere, where can voice our support?
I’m still disgusted with the lack of ‘action’ on the part of Christians or Evangelicals regarding the disgrace in Georgia.
The left gets their freaks together and effectively shuts businesses/people down (you know what I’m attempting to convey here) and yet good and decent people are letting our religious freedoms literally slip away!
I’ve been reading “The Gulag Archipelago” and just finished Solzhenitsyn’s account of a student denouncing a professor for frequently citing Marx and Lenin in his lectures, but never Stalin. The professor was replaced and sent to prison.
We’re not tbere —yet.
So tenured professors can be fired for no reason.
Much appreciated.
University President Dr. Michael R. Lovell
Twitter: Michael Lovell@PresLovell
Leni
That this is happening in a CATHOLIC university ought to inform us how wicked that institution has become.
Where is pope “Who Am I To Judge” on this?
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