Posted on 01/23/2005 6:15:16 AM PST by KidGlock
2 UCLA professors quit after gun allegedly used in performance
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Two tenured art professors have resigned from the University of California, Los Angeles, after the university refused to suspend a graduate student who may have used a gun during a classroom performance art piece.
The resignations came after a brief performance on Nov. 29 in which a student simulated Russian roulette by appearing to point a loaded handgun at his head and pull the trigger, a student and law enforcement officials told the Los Angeles Times.
The weapon didn't fire, but the student then left the room and what sounded like a gunshot was heard outside.
Police said no one was hurt. It was unclear whether the firearm was real....
... prosecutors decided against filing criminal charges because there was "insufficient evidence to show a gun was discharged or any bullet fired."...
The dean's office determined that a suspension wasn't warranted.
Burden, 58, oversaw a program that includes performance, installation and video art, while Rubins, 52, taught sculpture....
Burden (one of the resigning professors) did performance art before moving into sculpture in the late 1970s. His best-known performance, titled "Shoot," featured an assistant who shot him in the upper arm with a .22-caliber rifle....
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Good. Two tenured Lib Professors down and 250,000 to go!
No comment 'KidGlock'? Then I'll comment, 'good'! Good danm riddance.
Hey! If it got rid of two tenured professors, what is the big deal? I am sure that two chickens will not be sorely missed.
I am waiting to see who their replacements are.
Probably not an improvement.
Too bad I couldn't change the title.
I wanted to post, "Liberal Professors Reomoved With Gun."
Isn't one of the guys who resigned the same guy who crawled naked through broken glass and had himself crucified to a VW Beetle as part of an art 'performance?' What a nut.
Whatever - Just as long as they are .. ahem ... removed.
Ping to "Believe it or not"........
Baaaad career move.
Hope they enjoy working at Jack in the Box.
Suddenly, and too late, the liberal tenured professors learn that PC does indeed clash with the First Amendment (not to mention 2nd), and kills academic freedom.
If the student would've used AIDS-tainted blood or urine or a Crucifix then all would be nominated for Excellence in Education awards.
The liberals will spin the story. Two wonderful professors felled because of second amendment nuts.
Seriously though, with the exit of these two eggheads, the average IQ at UCLA has gone up.
If I read the last line right, one of these guys had a graduate assistant shoot him in the upper arm with a .22 as an art exhibit!!?? Sounds like the whole bunch needs to be issued live ammo and taken to a gravel pit. Genepool improvement project.
So9
There's got to be more to this! Two ultra-leftie, tenured, public employees don't give that up over a matter of principle! These guys are scabs on the hide of public education. And, they know it. Outside of UCLA, they are just aging A.N.S.W.E.R. members protesting everything thay the Striesanders tell them to. There has to be more than opposition to the university's refusal to do anything to a graduate student. BTW, you KNOW that student is NOT black or a fairy and is probably a white, Christian.
The kid should get funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Why is it free speech is so sacred to liberals so long as the artist is urinating on a cross, but when he engages in performance art that involves a "hopefully" unloaded gun, they get upset?
Some parent is paying good money to have their kid exposed to this crap. Get your kid a job where he can learn a trade and save your bucks. Go to college for this crap? I dont think so.
Wonder if he's planning a squeal, where the assistant uses a 50 cal BMG rifle?
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