Posted on 11/22/2005 6:21:40 AM PST by pookie18
Emergency meeting scheduled tonight on remark soldiers should kill superiors
New Jersey college's board of trustees has called for an emergency meeting tonight to discuss how to handle the controversy surrounding an e-mail by a professor suggesting soldiers in Iraq should kill their superior officers.
As WorldNetDaily reported, the e-mail by adjunct English instructor John Daly of Warren County Community College was a reply to freshman Rebecca Beach for her announcement of a campus program last Thursday featuring decorated Iraq war hero Lt. Col. Scott Rutter.
Daly wrote: "Real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors."
Daly said Sunday he was worried he would be fired tonight and already had been told not to show up for the three classes he was scheduled to teach today, according to Inside Higher Ed, an online news source.
The instructor said he stood by the e-mail message, but it was being taken out of context. His comment about soldiers turning their guns on superiors was meant "in the most metaphoric sense," he explained.
Daly also said that because Beach was never one of his students, he thought she was a "Young America's Foundation organizer and sent the message with that in mind.
He would have used a different tone if he had known she was a freshman, he said, although the content wouldn't have changed.
In his e-mail, Daly said he would ask his students to boycott the event and also vowed "to expose [her] right-wing, anti-people politics until groups like [Rebecca's] won't dare show their face on a college campus."
Young America's Foundation, which came to Beach's aid, said that besides organizing the event, Beach's offense was hanging up fliers contrasting the number of people killed under communism to those liberated under President Reagan.
Beach responded to Daly's written tirade with a demand that Warren President William Austin institute seminars on free speech and sensitivity to teach intolerant faculty members to be respectful of differing opinion.
The college has issued three statements since the controversy began, with support for Daley apparently declining with each one, Inside Higher Ed said.
On Thursday, the college posted a statement on its website saying:
The viewpoints of this professor in no way depict the views of Warren County Community College, its administration, or the Board of Trustees. The College does however support the constitution, the first amendment, and the right to free speech.
Additionally, Mr. Daly's message was sent as a one-to-one message, via e-mail, to one person, and not to the college community. Finally, the College is viewing this message as a personnel issue and will be addressing it according to the policies and procedures of the College.
Austin attended the lecture Thursday night, and the next day, the college's statement, noting the speech went well, added criticism of Daley, quoting Austin as saying the e-mail was "disgraceful and offensive."
Saturday, the college announced the board had scheduled the emergency meeting, noting Tuesday was the first day such a meeting could be held legally.
"The Board of Trustees intends to consider the welfare and rights of its students, the college community, and the public in lieu [sic] of recent events. The board will also consider personnel issues," the statement said.
In the interview last night, according to Inside Higher Ed, Daly said it was entirely appropriate for him to criticize "a pro-war rally."
People should be outraged that military recruiters are able to attract the college's students to enlist because they can't afford tuition and find good jobs when they graduate.
"The YAF is trying to turn back affirmative action and to promote the war, and I have a right to speak out," said Daly, who noted he's been teaching at Warren for about a year.
He also teaches at another school but declined to give the name because of the current controversy.
Referring to the threat of being fired, Daly said his situation reflects a trend for non-tenured instructors.
"As more and more professors are teaching part time, this is a direct attack on our academic freedom," he said.
Daly's e-mail also claimed that "capitalism has killed many more" people than communism and that "poor and working class people" are recruited to "fight and die for EXXON and other corporations."
;-)
That is something that I would consider outrageous (firing a prof for telling a student complaining about an exam to grow up), absent some other compelling background context that showed the prof was otherwise inappropriate, unprofessional, etc. Telling a student to "grow up" is not itself unprofessional, especially if the student is a whiner, as so many are..... but the case of Daly and his outlandish verbal assault on a student simply for being a conservative is quite a different matter.
It's getting nigh time to bring back an old favorite and charge the most enthusiastic of the "aid and comfort" crowd with sedition.
re: Daly teaching for free
Judging from the abysmal quality of his thoughts, HE should pay students to take his classes. Frauds like Daly are not worth one penny of anyone's tuition money...... our campuses have given too many clowns like Daly comfortable sinecures with no real oversight and no real standards.
Because the ones who institute the communist system become the "politboro" and get to control and distribute the money, so the lure of establishing a new socialist government lies in forever placing oneself as an elite lording over the masses.
See http://warren.edu
"Tonight’s meeting of the Board was initially called to consider what if any action would be taken. As we prepared for that meeting, we received word from Mr. Daly that he had tendered his resignation from WCCC effective immediately. The Board has accepted his resignation."
Cheers,
Lloyd
THis bastard marxist/communist should not only be fired...he should be tarred and feathered and then drug out of town on the end of a rope or chain.
24 posted on 11/22/2005 6:32:06 AM PST by Jeff Head
The rope or chain should be fastened around his neck.
Now that didnt take long at all. Thank you for the pings and thank you Free Republic.
He was either going to resign or be TERMINATED with extreme prejudice. Scratch one Commie SOB Pseudo Intellectual College Professor! Several to go!
Call me a mush but the "effective immediately" part just makes me all warm & fuzzy inside.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1527095/posts
Won't be long before we hear the wails from the left about how this vicious clown is some kind of martyr for free expression and academic freedom. Not that what he said is protected by either in any professional employment or academic context, but just watch, he will be presented as a hero in certain depraved quarters. I assume DU and Daily Kos will be having orgasms of outrage on his behalf, but I wouldn't sully my computer or my eyeballs by checking those sites for reactions....... :^)
I say, good riddance to one America-hater, but wait until he pops up somewhere else with a much better position (he was just a lowly adjunct, now he will be a great hero to leftist academics everywhere).
adjunct English instructor John Daly.
"Adjunct" is a bitch ain't it for this turd? No free ride for life.......LOL!!!!
I suppose he could take up golf.
Yes!!!! (from NJ)
Let him do it in another state...I don't want to see this POS out there!!!
Great post....Luv ya!!!!
Not even the french part(?) of NJ ;-)
Like THAT narrows it down! ;-)
Best thing I've read today! Give the incontinent little creeps a taste of their own medicine.
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