Posted on 07/27/2005 2:49:32 AM PDT by Neophyte
UNI TRIES TO OUST PROFESSOR
Macquarie University vice-chancellor Di Yerbury has denounced the racist views of its controversial Sydney law professor as repugnant.
But Professor Yerbury denied that asking Associate Professor Andrew Fraser to bring forward his retirement was penalising him for expressing his views.
Macquarie University said today it had invited the Canadian-born law professor to speed up his retirement, which was due to take effect from July 2006.
Prof Fraser, who has taught at the university for 29 years, was last week cautioned over a letter in his local suburban newspaper in which he claimed Australia was becoming a Third World colony by allowing non-white immigration.
He claimed African migration increased crime and he believed Higher School Certificate results pointed to a rising ruling class of Asians.
He wanted Australia to withdraw from refugee conventions to avoid becoming "a colony of the Third World".
Prof Yerbury said today Prof Fraser's comments had caused distress to a lot of students on campus and she would not have them feeling unsafe.
She denied the move to rid the university of Prof Fraser had anything to do with its ability to sell itself to Asian students.
"We're an international, multi-cultural community, this is not about money," she told ABC radio.
"It's about tolerance, harmony, cross-cultural decency, it's about my students knowing that whatever race or origins or cultural backgrounds or religion they are they have a right to feel as safe and as comfortable and as respected and as free from abuse as anybody else on our campus.
"This is above money ... I find that insulting."
Prof Yerbury said it was policy that an academic could only associate himself with the university if commenting on his field of expertise.
This was not the case with Prof Fraser's comments, which she said were repugnant.
"I don't think they (his comments) are powerful and compelling, I find them repugnant and so do a great majority of the university campus," she said.
"... he'll go on (speaking out) and that's his prerogative and that'll be between him and his conscience, him and the law, but it won't be, I hope, as an employee of Macquarie University.
"Nobody is interfering with an academic's right of research and right to free thought in his or her research and the right to speak out about it.
"This is not Drew Fraser's area of teaching or research and ... (this) is not his area of specialisation, it's not his research, it's not what he's employed to teach."
"When Professor Fraser aired his views on a current affairs programme last week, a subsequent poll of 36,000 viewers found 85 per cent in agreement with him."
Thank you for posting this.
This chancellor's hysterical nonsensical reaction to a statement of fact so obvious that even a blind poodle could understand it is due, at least in some part, to the fact that she's a woman. I truly believe that. Women are different than men--and, uh, vice versa!
Stay with me. Multiculturalism is cognitive dissonance. It is a condition causing people to take leave of their senses, and to deny the obviously simple. Any standard university lamebrain could have emitted her particular brand of hysteria (and they do, and they have), but only a woman would go on and on like she did. Or a completely feminized man, of which we have zillions.
Has anyone else noticed that this pattern follows "the vapors" of the 1800s?
Professional feminism hasn't done much to transform these old gals has it?
No bias here. Man, they must think their readers are stupid.
What does this guy have against Asians? Is he an old union hack finding fault with " higher School Certificate results"?
Nothing. As well as against Africans. Both races are neither inferior nor superior to the Caucasians.
He just happens to think that when representative of the former two come en mass to live among Westerners, they cut lousy companions. Both tend to create ghettos - Africans impoverished and criminal, Asians affluent and criminal - and staunchly to resist absorption into the main culture, leave alone assimilation.
The good prof thinks Australia does worth it to be preserved.
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