From now on, you're on double-secret probation.
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.”
Perhaps we should drop the chairperson a line as well: kelly@jcu.edu
I'm getting sick of these holier than thou creeps. We should start protesting out side of their houses.
The question really must be asked: Why is this moron still the director of the Applied Ethics Program and a professor of Religious Studies at John Carroll Jesuit University in Cleveland?
Let them rant and mourn and fume. They lost.
Amazing for this thread... A post which makes sense!
Thats right! And we have declared a Jihad on you liberals.
ALL YOUR DIPLOMAS ARE BELONG TO US.
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How can I be a part of the "Christian Taliban"? I am a True Conservative and an Atheist.
B.S. Wake up Ellis! We are indeed paying for a one-sided education. Hopefully after this tirade this professor will be lining up for a dishwasher job down at Denny's. This guy has no business in the classroom. Now if we could just get the other couple hundred thousand profs and teachers to screw up like this guy we might make a dent in the entrenched leftist educational faculties across the country.
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As a college student at JCU, I consistenely walk by Dr. Lauritzen't office to stare and make fun of his BS propoganda. He's annoying and he stated in his comments that "we need to reject certain viewpoints as wrong."
Yeah. Like his.
From now on, you're on double-secret probation.
Somehow that does not shock me. Most of those professors are liberal, his opinion just got out into the open. He ought to be fired. But then again, his bosses are probably liberal as well.
Note to Professor(?) Paul Lauritzen:
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"Is he a freeper?"
More like a troll who got zotted!
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