Students,Profs face off over 'Red Stars'
I have two questions:
1. Where did the College Republicans get the idea from?
2. Have any of you heard of similar protests in other places?
I'd say this quote proves McPherson's point exactly.
Boy the left can dish it out but they sure can't take it.
Sounds like a good idea to me!
I will see their "McCarthyism" and raise it a "Stalinist!"
Funny how those guys can not take their own medicine.
Its OK to attack Christians and conservatives, but lets not suggest that an instructor is indoctrinating their students.. THAT is unacceptable.
Hmmmmm? Sounds like the professors didn't like being challenged - too bad - it's way past time.
They apparently do their research.
I don't know where they got the idea, but it's about time some students stood up to the Profs in CA. A student I know had this to impart:
First day of a required class the Prof said, "if anyone in here voted fro Bush, get out now." Academic freedom don't you know!
"It makes me a little anxious," philosophy instructor Michael Aparicio said."
It damn well ought to!
I am pleased to hear that they are upset and unnerved by the fact that individuals have posted red stars on their doors. Now perhaps they just might think twice about putting up Swastikas on our property.
The difference, of course, is that the communist red stars are in fact signifying what is believed by these people. The Nazi Swastika represents National Socialism, which is itself an offshoot of Marxist thought. At least out "protestors" get their facts straight. Personally, I would have preferred that they used the hammer and sickle for ID of these people.
Wait a minute...the student's actions were 'sensationalist' and done to attract media attention.
Umm...who called a press conference????
Ever.
Buh-bye Dan! Go away! Aasta lavista, baby...
Scram! Beat it! Vamoose yer caboose! Scat! scat...
Forget to write...
"It makes me a little anxious," philosophy instructor Michael Aparicio said.
Why? Unless he thinks he will lose his job, over a student protest, what is he worried about? That the other students will wake up and realize how biased he is? That students will start insisting on being allowed to speak out in his class? That he won't be able to get away with downgrading students who do speak out?
Give it up, Ed. Your cover's blown!
No one believes your double-talk, anyway. If the standard were just some merely 'difficult and controversial', you'd be teaching that the earth is flat, and how bumps on people's head can help determine whether or not they are fit for service in the SS castle on the hill.
Along with communism, you'd teaching other tyranny, too. And you'd teach anti-communism, which I doubt you do - but really should!
Ed, no one's buying it, anymore. Give it up. If you want 'controversial' - then hold classes on the writings of Tolkien or 'Jack' Chesterton. If you want difficult, get into Tolkien's appendices. If you want more controvery, get Solberg's Debates and start teaching what happened when the country was founded. If you want complicated, try the Federalist Papers. If you want more 'controversy', consider the critics of the Court and 'judicial review', and so on, when you teach intro to Constitutional Law, assuming you do. And so on.
But don't try to con people, Ed. You're only conning yourself.
Communism SHOULD BE illegal. And the Constitution is very clear. Private property, even to the extent that too many early ratifiers were willing to set the stage for war by claiming that people were property. Representative, unlike Commie dictatorships. Checks and balances, unlike Commie tyrannies of rigged courts, rubber stamp assemblies, and armies of Gestapo and secret police. Etc.
Perhaps this guy would run screaming from the room if someone pointed out something so obvious - NAH- NAH - I'M NOT HEARRRRRING YOU! AAAAH! And then he'd turn at the door, and Gollum-like, hiss and sneer, Racccissssst! Homophobe! I'll get you my . . etc.
I could be wrong. I wonder, though, if the kids going to this unfortunate backwater don't have such nightmares as they anticipate this guy's next quiz, and the basis or standard for his grading? I don't know.
"Brenda Flyswithhawks, a psychology instructor, went further, calling for disciplinary action against students Molly McPherson and Danielle Carter for allegedly creating "an environment of hostility" with the postings."
Seems Ms. McPherson saw it as a "hostile teaching environment" before she put up the postings and decided to do something about it?
Great - glad to hear it!!!!!!!
Excellent. Communism should never go unchallenged.
Good for her! The protest is definitely encouraging news.
I really like the idea of pasting stars on their doors.
Its so, slap you back.
A hit dog howls. These jerks cry like babies when confronted by a law against indoctrinating their students in communism. That tells you everything you need to know about higher education these days. Good for these students who are paying huge bills and getting treated like dirt by these 60s leftovers.