Posted on 02/13/2005 10:04:52 AM PST by Nachum
Clinton, N.Y. - A professor at a small New York state college has stepped down as a program director after igniting a furor by inviting Ward Churchill, a University of Colorado professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis, to speak on campus.
Nancy Rabinowitz of Hamilton College said she was resigning "under duress" as director of the Kirkland Project for the Study of Gender, Society and Culture. She will continue to teach comparative literature.
Rabinowitz extended an invitation to speak to Churchill, whose essay written shortly after the 2001 attacks compared the World Trade Center victims to "little Eichmanns," a reference to the Nazi who organized details of the Holocaust.
His appearance was ultimately canceled by the school, which cited death threats against college officials and Churchill as a reason.
"I would have preferred to stay on until I took my long-awaited sabbatical," Rabinowitz said in a statement released by the school. She has been the project's only director since its founding in 1996.
"What the project needs now is someone more adept at the kind of political and media fight that the current climate requires. Therefore, it is in the interests of the mission of the project itself and for no other reason that I am yielding to requests that I resign," she said.
Churchill, a tenured professor, recently resigned as chairman of the ethnic studies department amid the uproar over his essay. The school is investigating his writings and speeches to decide if he should be fired.
Rabinowitz also drew fire in November when the program offered a temporary teaching position to 1960s radical Susan Rosenberg.
Rosenberg was indicted but never tried in a 1981 armored car robbery that left a guard and two police officers dead. She was sentenced for 58 years in prison for weapons possession, but President Clinton granted her clemency in 2001 after she served 16 years.
Hamilton, a liberal arts school with 1,750 students, is about 40 miles east of Syracuse, N.Y.
IOW, she's caused a drop in alumni donations........
She'll be ok,,probably has a great offer from Colorado!
She "lost" nothing. She retains her tenure, her professorship and thus her ability to damage American youths unlucky enough to take her class.
Summers got into trouble recently with the PC bunch for suggesting that men and women are different. But some of that PC outrage was probably fueled by Summers's calling B.S. on dear Cornel who hinted at racism and sniffed "They picked on the wrong Negro!" West got a new job with Princeton: Harvard's gain and Princeton's loss.
Summers also receives kudos from me for his praise of patriotism and assault an grade inflaction at Harvard.
I can't be quite so optimistic on this one. The universities are loaded with evolutionists, feminists, quasi-marxists, pro-abortionists, pro-homosexualists, etc. This is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg being clipped off. Still, it is a positive development, even if so small...
long awaited , not long deserved. ha ha.
That's the great betrayal of the 'best and brightest' when the left seizes institutional control. Suddenly, political tests are not only the criteria for admission, but for grading. The student's minds spin in the confused hysteria of liberal's shouting their non sequitur screeds in front of every blackboard. These are kids who were best in their schools, whose parents work hard to put them through school, who may work full or part-time themselves to pay for such nonsense. And they emerge the worse for it. At least in the accredited science and technology programs, while the kids are often just as bloated on PC junk, they still know how to turn dials and read the scope, as it were. The others are simply betrayed. Their only hope is the link of personal contact, influence, patronage and nepotism, the 'old-school ties'. And these tend to come with most students before they first step foot on campus, anyway. They're born into it.
It does open possibilities, however, for students who are prepared for all this. The libraries still contain the great works, and technical manuals. As enrolled students, there is still some limited excuse for limited contact and questions of those who might know. They have academic discounts on software and whatever else. They have potential openings to internships, they wouldn't otherwise have. They can even opt for 'independent study', with various expenses, where appropriate, paid for by the institution. They can do that even as undergrads (I did). So for those ready for the betrayal, they can try to sidestep the muck as best they can and use the resources of a university to genuinely learn and better themselves, for the ultimate betterment of society at large. The secret - don't go to class.
We Maoists find that formulations deeply offensive ;-)
g'riddance.
I think they wanted you to teach Queer Accounting. 1+1=3, and stuff like that. You know, the stuff they used at Enron. 8^]
Tenure today is based on the ability to get along with others in the department, hand out A's like candy so student evals are uniformly good, and crank out useless but PC papers for peer review, while logrolling with other professors to do the same.
Liberals run ethnic studies programs on most college campuses, and most liberals don't get along with anyone who disagrees with them because they're not just liberal, they're stupid.
Churchill had a great shot at tenure in the modern system of 'higher education.'
"You know, the stuff they used at Enron. 8^]"
Oddly, I have an Enron shirt and a Worldcom shirt that I wear to class with a money tie.
SWEET!
I think I'm gonna see if anyone has licensed their stuff. That's hilarious!
I collect button down denim shirts. Business and event shirts are fun. My NRA, Browning and S&W shirts are favorites with the libs.
I'm partial to various micro-brewery shirts. I even have a matching Redhook shirt and tie. Matching up ties is always fun. I haven't figured out what tie to use with the Tupperware shirt. I usually pick the Spam or Pillsbury Doughboy shirts.
Comdex shirts go with the Dilbert tie.
On test days, I either wear Einstein or the Thinker.
Harley ties go well with Daytona or Sturgis bike week shirts.
My Patriots shirt got into the mix last week.
In Peter Principle speak this is a modified "Lateral Arabesque". All she's giving up is a meaningless title with no reduction in salary. Now she can pose as some sort of martyr and still remain tightly attached to the government sugar-tit.
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