Posted on 12/29/2005 6:55:56 AM PST by rface
The head of policy studies at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (Clyde Barrow) wants the university to suspend a student who made up a story about being grilled by federal antiterrorism agents over a library book and to reprimand faculty members who spread the tale.
UMass should punish the student and faculty members, in particular two history professors who repeated the unsubstantiated assertion of the history student to a New Bedford Standard-Times reporter.
The story spurred a flurry of concerned e-mails among UMass faculty, and appeared in a Globe op-ed piece written by Senator Kennedy.
In a Saturday Globe story reporting the hoax confession, UMass spokesman John Hoey said the university had no plans to discipline the unidentified student
'It's unbelievable that this student is not being suspended for a semester. It's even more unbelievable that the faculty who jumped the gun on this story and actively promoted it on campus, the Internet, and blogs will walk away from their misconduct without any consequences."
Barrow said further in an e-mail to the Globe that the professors' are a "dogmatic and zealous group of politically correct but chic anti-Americans."
Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, the two history professors who relayed the student's assertion to the Standard-Times and other reporters, denied that their political views colored their teaching or any action they took in the episode.
Another professor in the policy studies department, Philip H. Melanson, said he left the political science department, housed in the same building as the history department, because of the ''oppressiveness of what I would call the reigning ideology."
''It's left, it's PC, and it's got a vision of world peace stuck somewhere in there," said Melanson, who has taught at UMass for 33 years and specializes in research on political assassination and intelligence agencies.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
UMass Moonbats...garden variety denial of reality b/c everything is Bush's fault.
Kennedy should be punished as well...
Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?
Ha--Leave.
On a different note, my wife took the kids to the Amherst, MA area recently and overheard the family at the next table....the kids names were Aspen, Linden, and Maple....
Loony tunes.
"dogmatic and zealous group of politically correct but chic anti-Americans."
I love this guy.
And Teddy? How that festering son of a Kennedy can look in the mirror to shave that joweled hunk of gristled is beyond me.
"It's unbelievable that this student is not being suspended for a semester. It's even more unbelievable that the faculty who jumped the gun on this story and actively promoted it on campus, the Internet, and blogs will walk away from their misconduct without any consequences."
However, it is NOT unbelievable that that tub, Ted Kennedy, would jump on the bandwagon with his own "op-ed" piece. GAG.
Re-open the Chappaquiddick investigation.
Has Mapes done a story on this yet? Facts aren't important as we have seen from her previous efforts.
I remember reading this story last week and thinking "What a bunch of bunko". Its documnted here on FR. In the original story, there was not one person quoted, not one fact documented and corraborated, and not any sources cited for the article.
Pronounced Zoo-Mass.
Keep them away from chainsaws.
Clyde Barrow, even though an academic, seems to be a stand-up type of person. He is demanding accountability from those who did wrong.
Yeah, if the school does anything it will convene a crack team of professors, administrators, and graduate students to look into the allegations, kinda like they did at UC to look into Ward Churchill's nebulous past. Then, in a year or two, when everyone has forgotten about the incident, they'll quietly issue a list of "recommended actions", which will amount to no more than a testament to their ability to obfuscate the issue and re-direct the blame to a politically incorrect figure (e.g., "Bush").
Wow! Are smowballs being thrown in hell?
This book was spoilt by the author's injection of his political opinions. (Also by a rather tedious pendantic style.) Needless to say, he's a professor at Zoo-Mass Dartmouth.
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