Professor's sudden dismissal stuns students(Aryan Race Nation)

equinoxnews ^ | 04/01/05 | Tiffanie Johnson and Roberto Chavez

[Pikamax]

Professor's sudden dismissal stuns students By Tiffanie Johnson and Roberto Chavez

Students expressed shock last week when a popular history professor suddenly was dismissed. Then many expressed disbelief after they discovered an audio-enhanced website where he spoke out against Jews and blacks, including FDU basketball players.

"He was my favorite professor," said one student. "I can't believe it is the same man."

In fact, Jacques Pluss, an adjunct professor at the Metropolitan Campus, openly discussed his March 21 dismissal from Fairleigh Dickinson in a 44-minute interview on a website of the National Socialist Movement designed with swastikas and a picture of Adolf Hitler.

Pluss said he was "removed" from his classroom duties when he received a brief phone call at 5:30 p.m. from the department chairman who, he said, told him he was being released "for the convenience of the university" the following day. "I was stolen away in the night," he said. Pluss reported that he will be paid his salary through the end of this semester. He also said he will retire from "the academic world" and devote himself to the cause of the White Aryan Race Nation.

The professor speculated that he was dismissed because of his work with the National Socialist Movement on the internet, adding that the university "followed the typical Jewish, lawyerly, Hebrew line." He suggested that a "watchdog group" may have alerted FDU about his activities beyond the classroom.

During one segment of the conversation, Pluss said the university did not want adverse publicity while its Division 1 basketball team was in the NCAA playoffs. He said the players are "n--- to the core" and "sit in the back of my class with CDs and earphones" listening to "ghastly rap music."

Earlier in the same broadcast, Pluss referred to the "browning of America" and called FDU a "heavily Judaized institution" with a large minority student population. He said those students are "floating their way through school on taxpayer dollars," adding that it (FDU) is "not just browned, but singed." He also discussed attending a recent "gathering" of the White Aryan Race Nation in South Carolina, commenting that he had been gratified by the turnout.

Talking about his sudden dismissal, Pluss said it was "a terrible thing to do for students" who will have to deal with "a new teaching style, a new course outline and exams." He said he learned that "half of the class did try to speak with the department chairman" about his departure, but "were told to leave the building."

Pluss also said he "was not teaching any particular ideology" in his classes because of his training, specifically at the University of Chicago where he earned a Ph.D.

The audio broadcast apparently was posted on Tuesday, March 22, the day after Pluss was dismissed. Within 24 hours, word had spread among students, especially residents, that his views could be heard by conducting a Google search using his name.

"I feel that the college did what was necessary to protect its students from any type of emotional danger or law suits that could have come up because of him belonging to the National Socialist Movement," said junior Ameniki Omotola, an international student from Trinidad. "Dr. Pluss never appeared to be a person who supported white supremacy. In fact, this really shocked me when I saw his name on the website. His classes were entertaining, and I could say I learned a lot."

Sophomore Charles White said Pluss was one of his favorite teachers during his freshman year. "Pluss never came off to me in class as a man who supported white supremacy," he said. "He was one of my favorite teachers and I talked highly of him. I really liked him, and now I'm ashamed I ever did. I feel the school did the right thing in firing him."

Senior Christopher Langford said he was shocked and disappointed when he found out about Dr. Pluss. "I had no idea that he was an alleged racist," he said. "Now that I think about it, Dr. Pluss seemed to have a morbid fascination with Hitler and Nazism. But he never once taught propaganda or expressed his views in class. He came off as being liberal in his thinking. An incident arose in class about racism, and he appeared to be very anti-racist."

Meanwhile, the Equinox received a press release from the National Socialist Movement, based in Minneapolis, Minn.; it was dated March 23 and emailed by Jacques Pluss.

The release stated: "The NSM officially condemns Fairleigh Dickinson University for engaging in acts of left-wing McCarthyism. This past Monday, Professor Jacque Pluss was removed from his teaching position apparently for no other reason than being a member of NSM. It is against every concept of the Constitution and the principles of our republic and an act of sheer stupidity for the powers that be to force anyone to leave job [sic] simply because of his/her legal political affiliations. If American universities truly stand for the market place of ideas, and of freedom of expression, then we must protect all, including Professor Jacques Pluss . . . We at the NSM also realize that the Constitution is best protected in a free marketplace of ideas rather than by school officials that may be controlled by political correctness and Jews."

However, the university administration gave quite a different reason for the dismissal. "He was released for the official reason of (having) six absences and not making them up," said Dean of University College John Snyder. "As a professor, he did not meet that requirement."

Snyder responded to the professor's claim that he was released for the "convenience" of the university. "It's the Universities responsibility to take care of its students and the academics of the students," Snyder said.

Pluss was replaced in the classroom by Prof. Michelle Hartman. According to Snyder, she reported that students were upset and asking many questions. "Students were really upset because they didn't ever get anything that indicated he was basically a hate monger," said Snyder. "The term they used was 'betrayal.' They felt betrayed for the most part."

"We don't do FBI-style security checks for adjunct professors for the reason that we have an incredible number of adjunct professors," Snyder continued. "Also, when reviewing background information, you can never obtain information from previous employers on why they (former employees) were released or let go. They never disclose reasons for leaving." He said the University discovered the professor's Nazi associations after he had left his position.

Snyder said that, when the department decided to dismiss him, nobody knew his whereabouts. After the University discovered his outside activities, research showed that he was making Nazi statements. "I don't really know what the initial resource was for getting to the website - I don't know how students found out," said Snyder.

Attempts by the Equinox to reach Faramarz Fatemi, director of the School of History, Political and International Studies, who informed the professor of his release, were unsuccessful.

Freshman Tiara Johnson felt that Pluss never came off as a white supremacist. "I would have never guessed it in a million years," she said. "I just don't understand how he could smile in our faces and have long conversations with black students [in class], but carry so much hatred for us deep down inside. One thing I noticed was that he missed about five or six classes this semester, but never told us where or why he was gone."

Sophomore Marc Eichler said that, when he heard that Dr. Pluss was a member of the National Socialist Movement, he nearly fell out his chair. "I'm Jewish, but the guy never had anything against me -in fact, he gave me an A," he said. "He never came off as being a racist. I would discuss issues regarding my religion in class, and he never said anything."

Senior Allison Baretz said that a professor does not belong at FDU teaching issues such as the Holocaust when he himself believes in it. "During class he never really came off as a man who supported white supremacy, but after knowing his actions and thinking back, there were some signs," she said. "He talked a lot about religion. He did not want to teach the Holocaust for more than one class (an hour and a half). And he asked us to write a journal as if we were in the shoes of a German soldier during the Holocaust, asking us how we would react. For our mid-term, he gave us a question of comparing and contrasting the Holocaust and the rise of Nazi Germany to modern-day terrorism. I have this reaction because I am Jewish, and to have a 'Nazi' teacher does not go over well. I am extremely relieved that the school made this decision to fire Dr. Pluss and did not disregard it and let him stay."

"He was one of my favorite teachers," Langford said. "I even wanted to nominate him as Faculty Member of the Year for the SGA Gala."

[Regulator]

Now if we can just get the colleges to fire a few hundred thousand Marxists

That's funny. Who do you think fired him?

[LauraleeBraswell]

""The guy was apparantly an excellent professor quite capable of separating his private views from required course material and of behaving decently towards all. What more can you ask?""

Yes, I think as long as his views were kept out of the classroom it was fine. Although, his views are disturbing and racist. And I abhor them.


""Perhaps Pluss's were too incendiary and disturbing for freshmen and sophomores...but upperclassmen and graduate students should certainly be exposed to such things.""

WHAT? No one should be exposed to that bigotry.

[cwb]

What's interesting is that this professor is part of the National Socialist Movement. Liberals are still having a hard time with this concept...especially since most of the anti-Semitism is coming from the Left.

[Trinity5]

"I personally have to blame the history channel. I swear that channel has a Hitler fetish."

I have a T-Shirt with the History Channel "H" symbol on it. Below it it says: :"Hitler Channel, all Hitler all the time."

I get quite a few double takes, followed with a chuckle and a "got that right!".

[familyop]

Ping!

Thanks to AJC for the ping.

I was acquainted with an old man for ten years in a narrow interest, pro-family advocacy Internet collaboration group before finding out that he was a Nazi. He remembers American planes having been shot down in his German neighborhood when he was a kid, and how his adult neighbors picked up whatever hand weapons (garden tools, and the like) they could grab to go after the downed pilots. His father fought for Germany in WWI.

He considered most neo-Nazis to be like "bulls in a China shop" and not cunning enough. His kind of recruiting was designed long ago to involve the patience of decades. But after I "outed" him, he went ballistic, accusing Americans of having exterminated "millions of German PWs in the USA," "forced the Japanese into war by cutting off their oil," "forcing Hitler into war," and so forth.

For the ten years or so preceding the exposing of him as a Nazi, his preferred topics were very much like the material issued by those who call themselves "paleo-conservatives," if not a little more subtle.

[Middle Aged White Male]

Of course he wouldn't be fired for being a closet Marxist; there are plenty of out of the closet Marxists already around. If anything he would be canned for keeping quiet...

[nathanbedford]

For precisely this reason: Even a Klan member has a right to his point. There is nothing more in your face to a liberal. And Jackson and Lee were already taken.

The rightness of a point depends not on its author's provenance.

[Mrs. Shawnlaw]

He forgot to claim he was an Indian.

[LauraleeBraswell]

""Even a Klan member has a right to his point.""

you aren't in the Klan or anything?

[familyop]

"Does anyone believe that he would have been fired for being a closet Marxist?"

Yes, if he advocated the extermination of tens of millions of farmers, or something like that. But he didn't, and that isn't the issue at hand. History professors are employed to teach objective history--not Nazi revisionism.

And BTW, why did you name your Free Republic account after the founder of the Ku Klux Klan?

[bahblahbah]

Well lets be fair. Nathan Bedford Forrest ordered the KKK to disband after they started to become violent.

[briant]

...La Raza would have made him a hero.

[familyop]

Pinging...

[briant]

"For the ten years or so preceding the exposing of him as a Nazi, his preferred topics were very much like the material issued by those who call themselves "paleo-conservatives," if not a little more subtle."

Nice slur.

[T.L.Sink]

As Victor Davis Hanson recently pointed out in an article
in the 3/14 National Review, Churchill - aside from his
idiotic and vicious remarks - was a COMPLETE academic
fraud. He, contrary to his pretenses, had no doctorate
and pretended to be Native American to give him minority
status for preferred hiring. Read the article for a complete listing of his mendacious scams. It is insulting
to compare Dr. Pruss to him. Perhaps Pruss should have
been dismissed but apparently not for reasons pertaining
to scholarship or teaching. The fact that students were
shocked indicates that any nefarious activities had
taken place OUTSIDE the classroom. To me this makes all
the difference. I have some firsthand experience with
FDU.

[liberallarry]

Yes, I think as long as his views were kept out of the classroom it was fine

Keeping them out of the classroom won't make them go away. It'll just insure that students will be totally unprepared to deal with them.

WHAT? No one should be exposed to that bigotry.

"Bigotry" exists and is a powerful force in human affairs. It always has been. The question is how to deal with it. The professor doesn't think of himself as a bigot. He thinks he's a realist defending civilized values. It's you who become the bigot if you deny him freedom of speech - especially so if that right is exercised in a sophisticated environment where all assertions can be challanged and all listeners are students of social organization.

[demnomo]

Yeah, I guess professors who extoll the genocidal virtues of Uncle Joe Stalin and socialism/communism get a free pass, if not a big fat raise, from most universities.

[nathanbedford]

Some hours ago, now yesterday by my time here, I published this note quite unsuspecting that it would come in handy today to protect my reputation:

It's the end of the world, and I feel fine Posted by nathanbedford to Ursus arctos horribilis On News/Activism 04/01/2005 1:04:10 PM EST · 28 of 28

Well Grizz, I would not like to denigrate my namesake but I hold Jackson and Lee in higher regard. Jackson, because he dominated every theatre in which he appeared and some in which he merely threatened to appear. So, of course, did Forrest but Jackson's genius nearly changed the outcome of the war. Lee, because he was clearly the sublimest individual to emerge from the ultimately senseless conflict. He was the South. His uncanny ability to divine his adversary's intentions certainly prolonged the war. Apart from the final throw at Gettysburg, it is hard to fault his generalship which was a marvel of improvisation and concentration of utterly meager resources. Against all odds, he damn near won it.

No stain of reproach should ever touch either Jackson or Lee in their dealings with the Negro race for they behaved most admirably toward them. Jackson taught black sunday school and Lee manumitted his family's slaves. Sadly, this observation does not hold for the whole of Forrest's life but in his defense it should be noted that he sought to disband the Klan when it spun out of control.

No one can denigrate Forrest's genius but the other two are the corporeal embodiments of the beau ideal of a southern paladin. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1375756/posts

Then, in responce to hchutch I posted the following just a short time ago which reveals why I think it is important to be so un PC that one should ride as it were with Forrest:

Time to part company

Posted by nathanbedford to hchutch

On News/Activism 04/01/2005 7:23:45 PM EST · 356 of 431

"I had to wonder what has happened to the conservative movement when the threads were allowed to spiral so out of control. The concept of euthanasia is repulsive and disgusting, but it does not excuse allowing the threads to spin out of control"

Your entire lament is grounded in a revulsion against boorish behavior (which I share) or a call for more censorship - a call which finds no resonance with me. It is not clear which deficiency prompts your withdrawal. I would simply state my position that choking off the free exchange of ideas merely to protect the subjective sensitivities of some posters is a practice that ultimately will lead to the destruction of all that is good about this forum.

Are we naught but blushing virgins who cannot be confronted with a pin up on the warehouse wall lest we sue for sexual harassment? No, the subjective feelings of a class of victims is too nice a basis upon which to order society. So it must be here at Free Republic: Every time one of us acts boorishly, he advances the cause of the left. But every time we censor a point of view, Free Republic becomes less than it was destined to be.

I do not blush anymore and I certainly am no virgin, so I say, speak out! Let us hear all sides. My conservatism is strong enough to survive the fatuities of the left and my person has integrity enough to endure a few indignities without turning like a child to the moderator and crying "troll."

So, no, I am not a member of the Klan. But if I were, would you have me stripped of my franchise or only of the right to speak out on FreeRepublic? I think you both are bigger than that.

[Noachian]

What's interesting is that this professor is part of the National Socialist Movement. Liberals are still having a hard time with this concept...especially since most of the anti-Semitism is coming from the Left.

Although the NAZIs were portrayed as ultra right wing they were definitely a left wing "Socialist" organization.

NAZIs advocated total control of society, elimination of private property, nationalization of business, and dictatorial control of government. None of this can be considered right wing as we know it.

The Communists were the competitors of the NAZIs, and they advocated much of the same things, which is why both groups hated each other. The Soviet "Socialists" instituted much of the NAZI "Socialist's" ideals and look where it got them. So, both the NAZIs and the Communists were Socialists, both were left wing radical groups, and both failed.

When put in perspective the anti-semitism of the Socialist Left isn't hard to understand, since the Left has historical ideological ties to both NAZIs and Communists.