Posted on 01/11/2005 12:21:17 AM PST by Mike10542
Liberals have often left me teetering on the brink of insanity after hearing them speak, but after watching the repeat of Hannity and Colmes I am beyond words (well I am really not because I am writing this now). They had this professor on from the University of Texas named Robert Jansen who said he hopes our country loses the Iraq War. Now, I don't know if simply rooting for your country to lose (or in other words rooting for the enemy and death of our brave soldiers) in a war is criminal (maybe some law freepers can help me on that one), but as a teacher, this guy left me with no doubt that he should not be aloud to be in a classroom indoctrinating young people to his sick views. In fact if he preaches what he was saying on the show in his class, I am postive what he is doing is some form of treason (no way, liberal and treason in the same sentece?!?!). I am going to email The University of Texas and everyone on here should do so too and demand that they fire him for his treachorous acts (hopefully, they will at least watch him and ensure he does not preach his evil to his students or maybe we can just get all students there to drop his class, at least the ones who don't hate America). The various contact info is:
Robert Jensen (send him the most emails) Associate Professor 512-471-1990 rjensen@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Lorraine Branham Director of School of Journalism, G.B. Dealey Regents Professor 512-471-1845 lbranham@mail.utexas.edu
Larry R. Faulkner President president@po.utexas.edu
Office of Public Affairs Phone 512-471-3151 utopa@www.utexas.edu
Office of the Vice President for Community and School Relations Phone 512.471.9882 vpcsr@www.utexas.edu
Lay it to them hard my fellow freepers!!!!!!!!1
>You are discovering how the neoMarxist left controls our humanities departments
The expression of outrage at bias doesn't reveal naivete. Our party's problem is we have too many old saws who have lost their sense of indignation and willingness to do anything about the bias.
Understood. But that's not gonna change by trying to stifle the libs, only by pushing for more freedom for everyone else.
By now, I'm sure people have already brought the spelling mistakes to your attention. LOL I ALWAYS use spell check. It never fails, the one time I don't use it I see the mistake just as I hit "post." :)
Here's a link to Jensen's ramblings which gives others some background on the loony;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1293881/posts
Jensen: The upside to losing Iraq? An empire falls (Embarrassing, even for Austin...)
I swear we know this Jensen guy from somewhere in the past year or two ago when he oozed some similar drivel.
Freepers who live in the area should pay a personal visit to the Dean of that school and let him know what you think of this professor. Assure him also that your kids and relatives will not be attending the school either.
RE: Tagline.
MJ: Teddy, I think I'm pregnant.
TK: Don't worry, MariJo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Jensen has been doing this for years and it hasn't got him fired yet. The school president and the Board of Regents disavow the guy like crazy but he's tenured so they can't just get rid of him.
He's such an embarassment to the University of Texas already and he gets plenty of hate mail whenever he opens his communist yap.
The only thing that has even remotely influenced the University to discipline him is the threat of withholding alumni contributions. Nothing else is going to get them to raise an eyebrow.
Tall_Texan
University of Texas at Austin class of 1979
Bachelor of Journalism
D'oh!
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16301
It's Time for Fairness and Inclusion in Our Universities
By David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | December 14, 2004
"Two studies have appeared that reveal a serious corruption of the academic enterprise in America and a troubling situation on our campuses. The first, by Professor Daniel Klein of Santa Clara University, establishes a relentless bias in the hiring of faculty. According to Professor Klein’s results from a sample of nearly more than 1700 social science academics, between eighty and ninety percent (depending on the selection of fields) identify themselves as “liberals” and vote Democratic. In the next generation, the imbalance will be even more extreme. In a survey of junior faculty at Stanford and Berkeley, Professor Klein showed that the ratio of “liberals” to conservatives on college campuses is 30-1.
I put quotation marks around the term “liberals” because the practices of these professors show them to be anything but tolerant and inclusive, as the word “liberal” would imply. The exclusion of conservatives in the hiring process is itself an illiberal achievement. However, it is in the classroom that intolerance makes its most indelible mark.
According to a report issued by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), 46% of students said their professors “use the classroom to present their personal political views,” regardless of subject. In other words a large number of professors are abusing their positions as educators to turn their classrooms into political platforms and indoctrinate their students on matters in which they have no academic expertise. A slightly greater number of students (48%), report that presentations of political issues on campus are “totally one-sided.”
According to the testimony of the students themselves, this includes cutting off students who present conservative viewpoints in class but allowing students with socialist and communist comments to ramble on with approval. It includes mid-term exams featuring topics like “Explain why George Bush is a war criminal,” as happened at a university in Colorado. (A student who wrote why Saddam Hussein was a war criminal got an “F” on this exam.) It includes professors who are abusive to their conservative students in class like the professor of law at the University of Colorado who told his class that the “R” in Republicans stands for “racist,” while dismissing a student who objected saying, “We have too many Nazis like you on campus.”
To remedy this situation and restore good manners to the university, I have drawn up an Academic Bill of Rights, which is presently being considered for legislation in twenty states. Critics have responded by claiming that there is no problem at all. They explain the faculty imbalance by saying that conservatives simply don’t pursue academic careers in the same proportion as leftists do. Well, why would they if their professors -- politically correct and sensitive in regard to everyone else’s feelings -- think nothing of calling them racists and Nazis in class? Even if, in the best of circumstances, more liberals would indeed choose an academic career, would the ratio be 30-1?
The bottom line is this: You can’t get a good education, if they’re only telling you half the story, even if you are a liberal. The effect of the present one-party state on college campuses is to diminish the educational experience for everyone, liberals and conservatives alike. It is damaging to our national fabric as well. If every institution is political in a divisive age like ours, then every institution will become that much poorer as a result.
And to what end? Would it really be so hard to introduce the principles of intellectual diversity, fairness and inclusion into our institutions of higher learning? I, for one, would not like to think so.
Actually it's more like:
"Ahh, erra don't eh worry, Mary-ah-Jo--" (quaffs booze from his Thermos) (wipes mouth with back of hand) "Erra, we'll ahh cross that ah bridge when we ah come to. It." (buuuuuuurp)
Knit picky! I read the entire article & what you posted was clear to me. I didn't think you meant you were a teacher!
That's "nit"! :-)
It doesn't necesarily, but usually does.
Our party's problem is we have too many old saws who have lost their sense of indignation and willingness to do anything about the bias.
Well you wont pick an argument with me on that score.
I thought that thermos quaffing and burping were part of the Kennedy mistique (along with wandering around the compound in your underwear).
Lord knows, I've always found it a great way to get chicks!
It works best if you've got millions from your dad's bootlegging business.
Funny, when I read this article I knew what he meant, I knew he wasn't talking about himself by connecting the rest of the story together and the spelling.
ping
PING to #10. (#46 is good too!)
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