With a length of duct tape.
Posted on 03/17/2015 6:21:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
With a length of duct tape.
Some of these college professors are just there to screw up the students. That’s why they give out awards to the good professors because there are so many screw ups like this woman and the good professors really stand out.
I noticed this in her resume:
Pennsylvania State University
Abington, Pennsylvania
Research and Teaching Areas: racial and ethnic inequality; capitalism and class; White and Black poverty; empire and imperialism; Central or Latin American studies; consumption; music scenes and subcultures; liberation theology; revolution; stigma; symbolic interaction; women and madness; marijuana; sociology of deviance; Marxist theory; postmodernist criticism; ideology
So she teaches racial inequality, and I noticed she won a Diversity Award in 2012.
Hmmm. Just a thought - has she pulled an “Elizabeth Warren” to get her position?
up here associate is tenured/
DUH.
Must be unions or something.....I worked 30 years in university and Associate Professor was equivalent of adjunct status...they catch the tedious classes, don’t do much research and have pay their dues. They, in turn, hand out all their sh!twork to the graduate teaching assistants.
I guess the way around this is bringing in lots research dollars, but I don’t think sociology is a hot-topic unless she’s a Friend of Obama. From her ‘published’ works, there is nothing much to go on but that she likes music and the ‘scene’ I guess.....
I just watched the video — not only does she light up a cigarette on board, but she hides the still-lit cigarette in the magazine holder in the seat-back in front of her — which clearly could start a fire. Then she lies about it.
Unbelievable. I’m hoping this is grounds for firing, based on some conduct obligations in her contract. Her only defense would be that she was involuntarily high, i.e., she took some medication and took the wrong pill.
so is she in trouble for the rant or because she had a cigarette?
It’s a qualifier.
I don't know, she may be a bit too conservative.
Just looked up “douchebag” in the dictionary and what do you know, there was her picture.
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“adjunct status...they catch the tedious classes, don’t do much research and have pay their dues. “
Not me.
I teach.
I teach the classes I want.
As many as I want.
My free time is my free time.
I am not paying dues. Done that in my life, doing other things than teaching.
I am teaching one federal government class per term because I want to, not because I have to.
The poor young guys with a masters and working on their PhD (union card for an university position) are the ones begging on both knees for a full-time position.
That may be the case at a community college but at a research university, associate is a tenured position and not attained merely by a number of years at the assistant level.
Penn State is a highly rated research university. Getting tenure there wouldn’t be considered easy.
She’s written a number of scholarly articles and books which justify her academic position, for example...
“Alienation Incorporated: ‘F*** the Mainstream Music’ in the Mainstream.”
“Muscles, Motorcycles, and Tattoos: Gentrification in a New Frontier.”
“Inside Shock Music Carnival: Spectacle as Contested Terrain.”
“Heavy Metal Carnival and Dis-alienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism.”
Recommended reading.
Can you imagine considering that stuff scholarly - even in a sociology department?
Here’s the abstract of one of her works. It is totally incomprehensible, so it must be scholarly.
(Put your boots on before you read it.)
“Elaborating on previous work on Poor Chic, this article opens new empirical terrain for gentrification theory by demonstrating how gentrification processes are applicable to ‘symbolic neighborhoods’ in popular culture. Challenging postmodernist-spirited lifestyle consumption theory that asserts the breakdown of stratification systems through consumer habits, the article delineates how three important ‘symbolic neighborhoods of lower class masculinity’ - muscles, motorcycles, and tattoos - have been transformed from lower- to middle-class distinction. Framing these recent changes as investment, invasion, transformation and displacement, the article illustrates how apparent tolerance and fluidity among consumer lifestyles is less reflective of the obliteration of stratification systems than a new strategic means of reconstructing them. Particular attention is focused on Bourdieu’s multi-faceted conceptualization of ‘cultural capital’ and the victorious application of ‘aesthetic disposition’. “
If I had the energy and inclination I’d run that stuff through my readability formula to see how readable it is.
Wow - she talks about the obliteration of stratifications systems. Scholarly writing at its best.
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