Daly quit a week ago before he could be fired. I thought the left didn't believe in preemptive strikes.
Posted on 11/29/2005 4:24:57 PM PST by wagglebee
A professor at Warren Community College in New Jersey has resigned following public outcry over his call for the fragging of U.S. officers.
English professor John Daly recently sent a terse e-mail to freshman student Rebecca Beach, criticizing her for organizing a campus event featuring a decorated Iraq war hero. In the e-mail to Beach, Daly wrote that "real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors." Daly has since resigned his adjunct position at Warren Community College.
Jason Mattera with the Young America's Foundation, who came to the aid of Beach, says the college has also agreed to implement tolerance training for "leftist" professors.
"This is a victory for the free-speech movement on college campus, and a victory for Rebecca Beach," ways Materra. "She's had overwhelmingly support from members of her community, national support, and has been exposing this man."
Beach believes public outcry forced Daly out of his job and prompted the college to implement the tolerance training. "The American people [have] voiced their opinion and voiced their outrage that an employee of the government ... would say these things to a student, and intimidate and harass the student like this," she observes. The student says she considers Daly a government employee because the college is a state institution.
And although Beach believes the matter has been resolved on her campus, she fears Professor Daly may resurface at another college. "I am worried about that happening," she confesses, "and I don't want to see it happen because, honestly, I don't believe he's in a position to be teaching."
In his e-mail diatribe to Beach, Daly argued 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."
Well, thank goodness you aren't in charge.
'bout time.
**the college has also agreed to implement tolerance training for "leftist" professors.**
Wow - Conservatives are now a protected species! Yeah Baby!
Give him a one way ticket to Havana. He should be comfortable there. The Cuban army doesn't kill people for money. They kill them for the good of the people (/sarc).
Not a smart move for an adjunct to make. If he had been tenured, the administration never would have disciplined him. But adjuncts tend to be the next thing to slave labor on these campuses, so they had no compunction about dumping him.
I'd say, "Don't let the door hit you in the arse!" but I hope it does.
The "professor's" e-mail was anything but "terse" (curt). It was long-winded and self-indulgent. U.S. higher education is a swamp that cries out for draining.
"English professor John Daly recently sent .."
He needs to quit drinking and play more golf.
100, 150 years ago he would have been. Today, those who are in charge are so touchy feely, so humanistic, so non-judgmental, and treason is really only an artificial construct, highly esteemed deconstructionist professors inform us!
"real freedom will come when soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors."
That statement is incitment to mutiny and murder. It is definitely treason. The country should make an example of him and prosecute. That is not protected speech.
Notice that he was an "adjunct" professor. That is just a title they give anyone not on regular staff that teaches part-time or someone the college wants to honor in some way and list them as being on staff. So, his resignation is essential meaningless.
Daly quit a week ago before he could be fired. I thought the left didn't believe in preemptive strikes.
I believe that community colleges don't have a tenure system. One of the many plusses of a two year post high school system.
APf
"Not a smart move for an adjunct to make. If he had been tenured, the administration never would have disciplined him. But adjuncts tend to be the next thing to slave labor on these campuses, so they had no compunction about dumping him."
I thought he had already been hung. Drat, we seem to have no standards any more.
"Good riddance to bad rubbish!"
Exactly! Good-bye to that creep.
I wish he'd stuck around. He'd have made a great poster boy.
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Not so, this is protected (vile but legal). And it was not this statement that led to his pre-emptive resignation.
He went on to say that he would aggressively thwart the student's right to be heard on campus. That is what lost him the administration's support.
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