Posted on 12/07/2004 1:03:21 PM PST by metalmanx2j
Meetings are being held to discuss politics in the classroom after a professor apologized for an e-mail in which he vented his frustrations over the result of the presidential election.
The controversial e-mail was written by Paul Lauritzen, director of the Applied Ethics Program and professor of Religious Studies, to 32 faculty and administrators.
The e-mail, which was sent on Thursday, Nov. 4 at 10:31 a.m., somehow made it into the hands of students.
In it, Lauritzen wrote that he was “depressed beyond belief” at the result of the election. He added that he was angry, using an expletive.
He then called on colleagues to become more active in political discussion with their students.
“We need to tell our students that Bush is a liar and that many in the Republican party are essentially the Christian version of the Taliban,” he wrote.
“Bush won Ohio and much of the rest of the country because of Guns, Gays, and God,” Lauritzen wrote.
He added, “I say No Guns, No Gay Bashing, Not Your God.”
He added that faculty must organize against the war in Iraq.
“We have to abandon this studied neutrality,” Lauritzen wrote. “We have to lead by example. I ask you to join me in transforming the culture at JCU.”
At the end of the e-mail, Lauritzen urged the recipients to forward the message to others who might be interested.
The Carroll News obtained the e-mail from various students who each expressed their concern over its contents.
Senior Brian Ellis, who was one of the students who got a hold of the e-mail, met with Lauritzen.
“We’re not paying for a one-sided education,” Ellis said.
Nine days after the original e-mail, Lauritzen sent out an apology to the faculty, staff and administrator e-mail list. The same apology will be sent to all students.
“Because the language of the e-mail was intemperate, it has given great offense to many in our community, especially many Republicans,” Lauritzen wrote.
Lauritzen said that it was not his intention to insult anyone.
He also apologized to the recipients of the e-mail, saying that they could mistakenly be thought to endorse the e-mail.
“No one should draw that conclusion,” Lauritzen said.
He added, “The anger expressed in my e-mail was blameworthy, and I
apologize for it.”
He should be fired,but he won't be,because he APOLOGIZED!
Drives me nuts!
Let's drop him an email: plauritzen@jcu.edu
Tell him to keep up the good work. This kind of hysterical rhetoric only benefits conservatives.
And this college professor is the liberal version of Stalin.
Today college professors, like politicians, are useful idiots to the international communist (and homosexual) conspiracy.
NewLand Sez: "College Professors are essentially the Secular version of the Taliban"
Who are you all going to believe?
This guy obviously has no real concept of ethics, nor does he appear capable of objectively discussing Religion.
He's obviously not qualified to be in his position and should be fired.
I don't know about you but I sure feel better.
Really now? Can I "not insult" you like that, Professor?
"Studied neutrality"? What a joke. Fifty million souls freed from oppression beyond the imagination of this academic, and he's angry at Bush (and by extension the 60.5 million voters who elected him). Well if these socialists want to raise the level of struggle, I say "BRING IT ON!"
What a good thought.
He certainly will have some 'splainin' to do when he meets our Lord. And this person teaches Ethics????
Monty: Congratulations professor you have made it to the final round and you have to choose between only two doors.
Behind one door is Mohammedism. You will have to STFU or loose your head.
Behind the other you will be allowed to continue to live in a free society where men an women of great valor give their lives to ensure that you are free to pursue your dreams. The only requirement there is that you be considerate of others.
You have ten seconds to decide.
Translation: The faculty is as lib as the sky is blue!
We need to tell our students that Bush is a liar and that many in the Republican party are essentially the Christian version of the Taliban,” he wrote.
Now, it couldn't be that the reality is that the liberal left is really more like the American version of the Taliban, could it!
The professor isn't showing much of that liberal nuance we've been hearing so much about.
Need evidence they're delusional, here it is!
Is he a freeper?
Hmmm... Three-dollar bill?
If John Carroll University is a state school this Stalinist twit should be fired, tenured or not.
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