The first page of his site, at least, bears no copyright notice....
Posted on 10/15/2004 6:09:09 AM PDT by SmithPatterson
Shut up and sue! Mike S. Adams October 15, 2004
Hello Clifton. It is nice to hear from you. I just received your email, which follows in its entirety:
Dear Mike S. Adams,
On your web site you are using my copyrighted material from my web site (and misrepresenting it) without my permission. The material is meant for my professional work only. Stop using it now.
Thank you.
Clifton Snider, Ph.D.
I understand that you are quite upset with me over my recent article, entitled “Shut up and teach.” Being exposed as an ideological bigot isn’t much fun, is it? It is especially disheartening when you have been bullying helpless college students and finally encounter an opponent that you cannot control. That would be me.
Before I get off topic, I have a few questions. In your email, you refer to the California State University, Long Beach website as “your” website. How much did it cost you to buy the public university website? I assume that you are telling the truth when you say that www.csulb.edu is “your” website. You must be a very wealthy man. I didn’t know that “queer literary critics” made so much money.
Also, what do you mean when you say that my article misrepresents “your” website? People who logged on to “your” site directly (http://www.csulb.edu/~csnider/argument.html) indicated that you were much more ideologically bigoted than you were portrayed in my article. Shouldn’t you thank me for enhancing your academic reputation?
Finally, before I publish the following complaint, which was made against you on www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org, could you tell me whether it “misrepresents” you? Also, is the “students for academic freedom” website “your” website, too?:
I am taking this English composition class to fulfill my general education (GE) requirements. On the first night of this class, Sep. 1, 2004, Dr. Snider went over the class syllabus for the semester. This syllabus includes 5 essays that are to be turned in over the semester. One of these essays is to be written on a film that he will show in class, as he so stated will most likely be Fahrenheit 9/11. (Because Michael Moore is a genius and his film exposes how our so called "President Bush" is an idiot.) He then proceeded for the next hour and a half of this ENGLISH class to talk strictly about his hate of "president" (he kept doing the quote signs with his fingers) Bush and the Iraqi War. There were no more attempts made by Dr. Snider to talk about the true subject matter of the class, ENGLISH. I have been in this class for almost 2 weeks now and politics seems to be the main issue lectured on, however he makes lame attempts to tie his own liberal propaganda into an English example, (i.e.; Newspaper articles, Presidential Speeches, etc. )Furthermore, a second essay that we are to write must be written on a book we have read that appears on his "approved reading list". The list of books in his syllabus has a dominant theme: Sexual perversion and anti Bush rhetoric. (A copy of this list can be found on his website at www.csulb.edu/~csnider) This website which indicated in his syllabus "contains important class material" is a website dedicated primarily to his own gay literature and anti Bush poetry. I, and many other students, had a very difficult time navigating our way through his site to find some obscure hidden link to our school documents that must be printed off of this website. Also, Dr. Snider has taken it upon himself to give us a moral/ ethical and spiritual lesson before each class begins. The university offers ethics classes, and I obviously have no problem with ethics. I just do not believe that Dr. Snider is trained to lecture on such topics. (And from what I do know of his ethics and morals, I feel slightly offended that he somehow believes that his morals are superior to mine- I do not draw an ethical comparison between President Bush and Saddam Hussein as does Dr. Snider).
Finally, Clifton, since you are a “queer literary critic,” could you tell me who it was that said you should never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel? Wasn’t it Mark Twain? Have you ever read Mark Twain?
See you later, Clifton, and good luck with your lawsuit.
Yours in academic freedom,
Mike S. Adams
Dr. Adams (www.DrAdams.org) enjoys reading Mark Twain while listening to Conway Twitty.
its moments like these that make me love NRO.
They university should refund the tuition cost of that class - they have breached the contract in not providing the agreed-upon educational topic.
Mike Adams rocks!
Great post, thanks. bttt
http://www.dradams.org/
A literary professor is gong to sue a professor of criminology...
Now that's about stupid...
Mike Adams rocks.
LMAO....
VERY nice!
Ummmmmmm . . . Regards . . . Penny
BUMP and sympathy to the students who have to put up with this..
So he's saying that F9/11 is Queer literture?
On that, I agree.
I went to a small, conservative college and mercifully didn't have to put up with a lot of this. My libby professors (and most of them were) liked their salaries & cosy homes enough not to rock the boat very often. Instead they acted more subversively but on the occasion my friends and I could smoke one out (like a new sociology prof) the fireworks were fun to see.
The first page of his site, at least, bears no copyright notice....
It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.
It's fun to stay at the y-m-c-a.
Ping.
I reviewed his syllabus... Compared to some of the stuff I had to read and write in MY English classes... this guy is a lightweight.
Name: Snider, Clifton
Title: Lecturer
Department: Comparative Literature & Classics
Phone: 562 985-4247
Email Address: csnider@csulb.edu
Home Page: http://www.csulb.edu/~csnider
I've tromped all over NRO and cannot find any article by Michael Adams, let alone any reference to the article posted . . .
Help me out, please.
To: csnider@csulb.edu
CC: jernigan@csulb.edu; reichard@csulb.edu; kccohn@csulb.edu; rmaxson@csulb.edu
Professor Snider,
I have read your arguments page for English 100. Including your preface, dated 14 October. I really appreciate the work you have done on the course, and hope that your work gets the attention it deserves.
The purpose of my email is to thank you for helping me narrow my choices. You see, I am counselling ym sons on college choices. Given our shared perceptions of the world, I would most enthusiastically support my sons decision to NEVER go to California State University in general, and Long Beach in particular.
This is not censorship - it is a decision of the marketplace. We choose to spend our education dollars to obtain a quality education, including education in English. It is clear, upon review of your syllabi and class assignments, that you consider English instruction merely an minor irritant to your larger mission: hatred or our President, and inculcation of your sexual mores in the impressionable minds of youth.
Where I work, we have a policy that our company webiste not be used for personal gain. I find it most curious that you are using taxpayer-funded public webservers to advertise your various tomes. Since you profit from the royalties sales of these books generte, I find it unethical for you to advertise your work in this manner. Get yourself your own website and do it there.
A professor that sees nothing wrong with this kind of arrangement is unworthy of profitting from our tuition dollars.
Again, I thank you for helping us our with our college choices by eliminating the California State University system from our consideration.
This missive has also been forwarded to you department head, Dean, and president of the University.
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