[Albion Wilde]

Professor Grosswiler has been awarded a Senior Scholar Fulbright to teach for a semester at Wuhan University School of Journalism in China. He recently spent a semester as Visiting Professor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where he offered a graduate course on Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan's work. Professor Grosswiler has published a book revisiting McLuhan's media and social theories. He also has published a dozen journal articles and book chapters. Professor Grosswiler's research focuses on technology and culture, mass communication and social theory, cultural studies, postmodern media theories, international mass communication, and political mass communication. He has presented research papers at more than twenty national and international professional conferences, including the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the International Communication Association, the Canadian Communication Association, and the Annual Conference of Cuban and North American Philosophers. He conducted research in Tanzania and traveled to Cuba before being selected for the Senior Scholar Fulbright in China. Before joining the faculty in 1991, Professor Grosswiler held positions at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Ithaca College, and Towson State University. He previously worked as a newspaper police reporter in Missouri and a features editor and media columnist in Maine. Professor Grosswiler teaches mass communication history, international mass communication, and media ethics. He is program coordinator for Journalism and Mass Communication.

[matthew fuller]

Git a rope! Hang a noose!

[Albion Wilde]

President’s Office
Building address: 200 Alumni Hall
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Faculty Senate President Robert Rice 207-581-2883
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[Albion Wilde]

Bangor News article about this situation, with comments.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

I would have brought an American flag... A REAL BIG ONE to class, Thrown it over him and wrapped him up in it. Then doused it with a gallon or 2 of gas and clicked my lighter... then asked how much extra credit I would get for not lighting it.

[Dumb_Ox]

offered extra credit to class members if they burned the American flag or the U.S. Constitution

I was wondering how long it would take for free speech poseurs to burn the Constitution. Its an especial irony to burn the very thing that guarantees the right to free speech. It fits in with the obnoxiously self-aware activism of the age, and echoes the respect for the Constitution shown by our government.

How many on this thread are reacting to the flagburning part, and not the Constitution part?

[azhenfud]

"If she had stayed in the class, I would have given her extra credit for publicizing her opinions."

One would think the choice to distance one's self from those of the professor's warped mindset is, within itself, an expression of First Amendment rights.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from November 5, 2007. Thanks theothercheek.