Posted on 09/05/2006 5:36:03 AM PDT by JSedreporter
Apparently, it’s getting easier to find pedophiles in the faculty lounges of colleges and universities than it is in Catholic churches. “Why would any self-respecting boy want to attend one of America’s increasingly feminized universities?,” economist George Gilder asked in a column. “Most of these institutions have flounced through the last forty years fashioning a fluffy pink playpen of feminist studies and agitprop ‘herstory,’ taught amid a green goo of eco-motherism and anti-industrial phobia.”
“They routinely showcase such trendy trumperies as The Vagina Monologues, while sacrificing thousands of men’s athletic teams at the altar of Title IX.” There may be another reason why All American boys don’t want to look for tenured mentors.
“An Ivy League professor has been arrested for the third time in 11 years on child sex charges, in this case over video that allegedly shows him engaging in sex acts with boys,” the Associated Press reported this month. “Because of the charges, L. Scott Ward, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, was being stripped of his teaching assignments, spokeswoman Lori N. Doyle said Tuesday.”
“Ward, 63, was arrested Sunday after arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on a flight from Brazil, federal authorities said.” But at least the school got rid of him.
“A former Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania professor facing child-pornography charges failed to show up for an extradition hearing in North Carolina last week, making him a fugitive,” Piper Fogg reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education this summer. “Richard W. Gibbs, 64, worked in the communication department at Shippensburg until April when police searched his office computer and found images of child pornography, according to the local district attorney.”
“The professor immediately resigned. He was arrested in June at his vacation home in North Carolina.”
“Additional charges have been filed against him in California and Ohio.” Why did this case never come up when a committee of the Pennsylvania legislature held hearings in which they were, allegedly, going to shine a spotlight on higher education in the Keystone state? It looks like law enforcement officials in North Carolina had to work that spotlight for them.
When the Catholic Church was rocked by scandals of priests committing child abuse, it formed committees and created a zero tolerance policy to prevent future abuses. Will the American Association of University Professors put its best and brightest to work cleaning house in the Ivory Tower?
“Brett A. Sokolow, a lawyer and president of the National Center for Higher Education Risk Management, which advises colleges on student affairs issues, says that many of his clients are seeking advice about whether they should or shouldn’t admit convicted sex offenders (though he says he gets more questions about whether colleges should hire sex offenders as employees),” Doug Lederman reported in InsideHigherEd.com in January.
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia.
Just for perspective. And, I can't remember the exact stats, but it was along those lines.
So, if you're the NYC public school system, you're probably OK with the Church stealing your thunder. And it's probably because the media is your friend. AND, how kewl, you can just levy taxes to pay your settlements.
Oh, for the day when the books are balanced for real...
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Wasn't it Ann Coulter in her new book making the point that a teacher is many many more times likely to be responsible for child abuse, especially sexual abuse, than a priest, but that priests were big in the news due to the fact that the left wing media loves teachers (the "priests" of the religion of liberalism) and hates Christianity?
Anything to discredit Christianity.
The quote marks might be taken in the wrong light.
Who is? Did you hear a voice doing so, because I certainly did not. Please refrain, witch hunt style, from attributing to me sentiments I did not express.
Innuendos are lies.
I object to supporting the feminazi and pedophile playground of state universities with involuntary tax contributions. Two thirds of state operated universities could be shut down tomorrow without any cost to anyone except the tenured faculty who could easily be turned out to live on their fat.
Colleges takes this stuff seriously. It is almost impossible to get rid of a tenured professor, not least because of the potential lawsuits. A pedofile who was discovered on my husband's campus recently was fired. Had taught there for decades. Any other issue would have dragged on and on. But not this one. He was out in short order. And presumably in jail by now.
Because when I think of John and Sam Adams writing something in 1780, oh yeah, I think gay marriage.
Actually, pedophilia is more prevalent in public schools and amongst protestant clergy than in the Catholic Church. It is even higher among educators. Yitzhak Borovsky, former kindergarten assistant and informal education instructor in an elementary school, was recently charged with 28 counts of pedophilia.
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In an alarmingly high percentage of cases homosexuality is the same as pedophilia. Never trust a sexual deviant of any stripe near your children.
Child pornographers and pedophiles need to be shot... no blindfold.
Perversion is the point of liberalism, not the exception.
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