Ping.
He'll need the extra time to deal with the charges of filing a false police report. Just my hunch.
Stepped down as chairman? No Big Deal. In most departments the prof who draws the short straw has to be chairman.
Leave the University in Disgrace is more like it. Off the payroll and into the real world with him!
Religious Studies brings out the very worst of the Lunatic Libs. It makes Queer Studies seem mainstream. Sadly, many young people take courses in the department (or even major in the field) because they are looking for spiritual guidance.
I've visited the local newspaper's website, and learned something interesting ... the good professor DOES have a cell phone. Reporters have been calling it repeatedly, but Mirecki will not answer.
Now, what was the story again, about waiting to call police until he got to the emergency room, LOL?
Sharp as a marble, this guy!
Bump! Bump! Bump! Another one bites the dust.
ping...
Talk about an egregious (using a favorite liberal word on purpose) abuse of power.
He was planning on using his position as head of the dept of religious studies to stick it to the fundies (paraphrasing).
This dude needs a vacation.
Mirecki e-mail to the Yahoo Groups discussion group(copy found here -->SOMA at KU :: View topic - John Altevogt):
Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2005
Subject: I.D. & Creationism class to be taught at KU this spring!
To my fellow damned,
Its true, the fundies have been wanting to get I.D. and creationism into the Kansas public schools, so I thought "why don't I do it?"
I will teach the class, with several other lefty KU professors in the sciences and humanities. Class is:
REL 602 Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationisms and other Religious Mythologies.
Tuesdays 7:00-9:30pm. Smith Hall room 100. Open to undergrads and grads.
Enrollment limited to about 120. 3 credit hours.
The fundies want it all taught in a science class, but this will be a nice slap in their big fat face by teaching it as a religious studies class under the category "mythology". I expect it will draw much media attention. The university public relations office will have a press release on it in a few weeks, I also have contacts at several regional newspapers.
Of course, I won't actually be teaching I.D. and creationisms, but rather I'll be teaching ABOUT I.D. and creationisms as modern mythologies, indicating that these ideas have no place in a public school science class, but can certainly be analyzed in humanities classes for their function in society. Basic approach is my usual: anthropology with a focus on religious thought and behavior.
Any ideas for textbooks, guest lecturers and panels would be appreciated.
So far, six faculty have eagerly signed up to lecture. I can probably pull Chancellor Hemenway into this also, especially in the light of his public comments supporting evolution.
Doing my part to piss of (sic) the religious right,
Evil Dr. P.
So soon after the beating? No compassionate lefties left?
I assume he was a tenured prof? If so he is resigning? Is that Kerry Dunn I smell?
Glad we cleared the air.
Open-minded. Yeah. Right. Kinda like The Klan is open-minded. The definition of atheist is to be close-minded to the idea of God or gods.
He hasn't got it together as much as Churchill.