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.
If you're ever down in Tempe, look them up. Even a transfer through Phoenix, they're relatively close to the airport (prolly $30 round trip via taxi, but it's worth it to skip the airplane food and get a sample of their work--they sell great beer in 'growler' size jugs).
So she's no longer doing gender, society and culture, but will continue to do .. what? gender and culture?, or gender and society, or society and culture, or gender and gender, or ... whatever
C'mon. You assume she compels them to attend class. Or that they bother if they disagree with her.
I had an Economics teacher that was a Marxist. Unquestionably--he stated it outright in class. He would blather on for two hours straight about topics that had nothing to do with the test or Micro-economics. A friend of mine decided with me that we would devote the time we would have spent in class to studying A)microeconomics of beer sales and B)finding a student who'd taken the class the year before and weaseling a copy of their exams.
It was an effective study plan. I learned more about microeconomics...but I can't really remember any of it.
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Another personal favorite is the Victory Brewing Company in Downington, PA.
Seems as though that slippery slope the left is sliding down is a little slippery than normal, their actually picking up speed on the way down....LOOK OUT BELOW!!!
I have only one questions is the House Unamerican Activities Committee still around ? I think we need to clean house at our universities.
Ingenious!
The funny thing is that-despite the fact that most Economics Departments are overwhelmingly liberal in their political outlook-they remain-for the most part-the most conservative field on most college campuses.
Scary thought, isn't it?
Yep , another bullshit college curriculium . I was forced to take one of those courses to get my teaching degree. You CANNOT believe the crap they were pushing on me. I fought this professor tooth and nail every session .
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if you're interested in whats being taugh in colleges today . EXCELLENT site .
Shoving the M&Ms (Maoists and Marxists) out of the colleges is going to take time, and will probably coincide with the taking of the courts. Currently the courts are the stick. They abound with radical leftists who use dual reasoning to justify any Marxist propaganda on campus, while outlawing speech they don't like as either "hate speech" or "religious speech." We won't argue our way into victories. We have to replace these people.
The Board of Regents at CU is elected. Some Colorado Freepers need to start working on replacing them: From the CU web site:
The Board of Regents consists of nine members serving staggered six-year terms, one elected from each of the state's seven congressional districts and two from the state at-large. The members select their own chair and vice-chair.
We need candidates. Not wild-eyed lunatics, but sound, reasonable people, who will demand that state funding not be frittered away on ethnic studies and other pablum. Second, for courses that have a defined curriculum, instructors should be charged with teaching the curriculum. In most courses, there is not time for the fundamentals of Maoism if the curriculum is being taught.
Too many instructors believe that a University position is a state funded soapbox for them to ignore required duties and do whatever they feel like doing.
Boys, this system needs an enema.
Oh, no, on the campuses (campi?) I've been to, economics has almost universally been a bastion of sanity in a madhouse of liberalism.
And the test idea certainly wasn't ours. Georgia Tech, for example, has test files in many Greek houses that are insanely valuable to students.
That's the correct attitude. We're not going down without a fight. Now we need to get the GOP Senate to fight the same way...
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