The assignment for Central Connecticut State University student John Walberg and his two classmates was to give an oral presentation on a "relevant issue in the media." The three chose school violence for their topic.Posted on 03/05/2009 6:09:26 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
The assignment for Central Connecticut State University student John Walberg and his two classmates was to give an oral presentation on a "relevant issue in the media." The three chose school violence for their topic.
After the oral presentation was over, professor Paula Anderson of Communication 140, promptly filed a complaint with the CCSU Police against student Wahlberg claiming he made students "scared and uncomfortable." Professor Anderson deemed Wahlberg a "perceived risk" and felt it was her duty to "protect" her class.
What did the young man say in his oral assignment that was so threatening? Shockingly, Wahlberg had the temerity to discuss concealed carry laws, guns on campus in the hands of law abiding students, and the problems with the concept of a "gun free zone." He was gauche enough to have posited that if students and/or professors had legal guns on their persons in 2007 the death toll in the Virginia Tech shooting spree could have been much lower.
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These ‘professors’ like to claim that one of their primary goals is to teach students to think critically. Their actions certainly do not prove their claims. Any thought that does not agree with their leftist agenda must be shut down.
Notice they confronted him about guns registered in his name.
And they call this “higher” education....
Incredibly stupid.
BTW, Liberty University, a conservative Christian school in Lynchburg, Va., just turned down a proposal to allow people to carry guns on campus.
I didn’t know we had a law against making people “scared and uncomfortable.” Haven’t seen that in the Constitution either. This so-called “professor” should have been arrested for impersonating a professor, an academic and an intellectual.
Name: Anderson, Paula
Phone Number: 8322690
Job Title: Lecturer
Department: Communication
Location: R C Vance Acad Ctr 317
Email: andersonpau@ccsu.edu
Makes me sure dropping out of high school wasn’t such a bad idea. If I had stayed there is no telling how much less radical I would be today.
Remind me....how many shooters have lectured on students being armed, before they attacked?
Robert Shibley, vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), said Anderson’s actions appeared to be out of line.
“If all he did was discuss reasons for allowing guns on campus, it seems a bit much to call the police and grill him about it,” Shibley said. “If you go after students for just discussing an idea, that goes against everything a university is supposed to stand for.”
Shibley said FIRE has seen many more cases of hair-trigger responses by administrators over anything gun-related since the Virginia Tech shooting.
In 2007, Shibley noted, a student at Hamline University in Minnesota was suspended after writing a letter to an administrator arguing that carrying concealed weapons on campus may help prevent tragedies like the one at Virginia Tech. The student was allowed to return only after undergoing a psychological evaluation, he said.
Shibley also cited an incident at Colorado College last year in which campus administrators denounced a flyer as “threatening and demeaning content” because it mentioned guns. He said the students who produced the flyer were found guilty of violating the school’s violence policy, which was added to their school records.
“It is, of course, important that administrators identify real threats to students,” Shibley said. “But they need to use logic to discern whether a threat is real.”
But Jerold Duquette, an associate professor of political science at CCSU who sits on the Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Freedom, say the Wahlberg case is not so clear-cut.
“This is a situation where both sides can come up with a reasonable explanation,” Duquette said.
“[Wahlberg] certainly has a reason to complain, since he didn’t do anything directly threatening. But I wouldn’t say the administration has a reason to sanction or punish the professor or the police.... I don’t know if I would have done anything differently in the situation.”
Katie Kasprzak, a spokeswoman for the group Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, suggested that the professor called the police because she disagreed with Wahlberg’s political views.
“Critics of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus argue that colleges and universities are dedicated to the free flow of ideas,” she said. “Yet when a student gives a class presentation on a relevant issue in the media, it is acceptable to label the student as a threat? The only threat posed was a threat to the professor’s personal beliefs.”
Duquette said there was no evidence to support that.
“I think a lot of people see this as a liberal professor going after a student because he likes guns. I don’t know if that’s the case,” Duquette said, adding that more would need to be known about the incident.
So dod he tell the cops where his guns were?
I hope not.
These kids must be idiots. Didn't they know that they were supposed to stand up and extoll the heroic virtues of the messiah...and nothing else? /sarcasm
I knew this was a female prof. as soon as I read the headline. Liberal, Female, profs are alarmist.
Sue. That’s the only thing the university is afraid of.
Sue is right. In the meantime, how about some calls to the university to complain about Ms. Anderson’s actions, beginning with her attempt to intimidate a student? She needs to learn a lesson.
I don’t believe she should be called professor. Her title is “Lecturer” which must be the bottom rung of the education ladder. A recent product of our college diploma mills, check to see if in two years she has a job with the title Assistant Professor. If she does it will be another exmple of how our education system rewards nincompoops.
Universities today are factories of fear. They invent all the new terrors and all the new social anxieties. All the new restrictive codes. Words you can't say. Thoughts you can't think.... Foods that are bad for you. Behaviours that are unacceptable. Can't smoke, can't swear, can't screw, can't think. These institutions have been stood on their heads in a generation.
I caught that too.
Typically, the difference between a lecturer and an assistant professor is a Ph.D. Unless she is already in the process of acquiring a Ph.D., she isn't going to get a legitimate one in two years. It often takes that long to write the dissertation.
In my department, we have a group of very competent, hard-working lecturers. I'm very thankful for them because they allow us tenure-track professors to avoid the large lecture-hall sections and in other ways make our jobs a lot easier. We avoid attaching any stigma to their position and in all ways treat them as our peers.
An innocent person’s rights have been violated in a college.
The professor should be fired. Not much chance of that!
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