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Prof threatens lawsuit against her students
TheDartmouth.com ^ | 04/28/2008 | Allyson Bennett

Posted on 04/30/2008 12:53:39 PM PDT by MrLegalReform

Priya Venkatesan ‘90, a former Writing 5 lecturer and research associate at Dartmouth Medical School, is threatening to name seven of her former students in a potential civil rights lawsuit against the College, DMS and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Venkatesan announced Friday. Venkatesan also plans to write an autobiographical book that will include details of her experience at Dartmouth and name the seven students in question, all of whom were members of her Winter term Writing 5 class in 2008, she said.

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KEYWORDS: arrogantelitist; education; lawsuit; lawyers; loser; obamagirl; snobama; suing
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To: Kimmers
Read a sample of her writing. I doubt it was her accent or lack of English skills that made her incomprehensible.

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/

61 posted on 04/30/2008 2:08:25 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: Ron Jeremy

I think that is a different one. See # 22.


62 posted on 04/30/2008 2:10:50 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (You're gonna cry 96 tears!)
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To: Mr. Silverback; martin_fierro

You both need to see this. Trust me. ;)


63 posted on 04/30/2008 2:13:31 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (If McCain really CAN "win without conservatives," then why do you care if I vote for him or not?)
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To: MrLegalReform
Priya, shown on the right.


64 posted on 04/30/2008 2:14:39 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (You're gonna cry 96 tears!)
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To: Ron Jeremy
Guilty!
65 posted on 04/30/2008 2:14:39 PM PDT by 50mm (You hurt my feelings. Im suing you!)
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To: Revolting cat!

Yes, but, she’s still guilty.


66 posted on 04/30/2008 2:15:18 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy
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To: denydenydeny

GMTA. I beat you to it!


67 posted on 04/30/2008 2:15:36 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: dead
Guilty!
68 posted on 04/30/2008 2:15:52 PM PDT by 50mm (You hurt my feelings. Im suing you!)
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To: All

Follow the links from Roger Kimball’s blog (#11) and further on, it is a fascinating comedy.


69 posted on 04/30/2008 2:17:42 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (You're gonna cry 96 tears!)
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To: allmendream

Me thinks the women is crazy


70 posted on 04/30/2008 2:42:00 PM PDT by Kimmers
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To: Kimmers

for the wah-hoo-wah crew, perhaps she is channeling Bill Cole....


71 posted on 04/30/2008 2:47:44 PM PDT by redlegplanner
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To: Kimmers

I know. I had a lab TA who was absolutely wonderful - he wrote up detailed overheads with drawings for every lab, he’d always help when you asked, he kept good office hours, he was available for students who missed lab for a legit reason, etc. The only complaint was that his English was really bad, and it was difficult to understand him. In the end, when we filled out the student reviews, we all wrote that his lack of English skills was the only flaw we could find.

Personally, while I’ve had many, many liberal or otherwise left-leaning professors, all of them specified “It doesn’t matter whether or not I agree with you, what matters how well you write your paper.” However, I’ve learned to play off those left-leaning tendencies... for example, I’m pretty sure I could turn in a paper full of almost-gibberish provided I correctly use the word ‘heteronormative’ in it somewhere.


72 posted on 04/30/2008 2:56:56 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: RJS1950
I agree about Faulkner, but I think that Dickel was his booze of choice.

Another story, another commie Prof: Another Prof decided that Burt Lahr in the "Birds" was the coolest thing that came down down the pike.

I was voted, in my class, to be the most likely to starve and live under a bridge at the Catholic Prep School I was forced into attending. I took four years of Latin and Greek, plus frog.

I pointed out to the Prof that Aristophanes would have puked on the floor over that interpretation, bad mark.

73 posted on 04/30/2008 2:58:48 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Can I borrow $200 for beer? Better make it $300.

Beer goggles ain't gonna help with her, better go with the hard stuff.

74 posted on 04/30/2008 3:15:07 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: Kimmers

And he’s right. I remember one lovely man from Africa whose accent was so bad I couldn’t understand him when I stood next to him. When one woman administrator (Affirmative
Action director) suggested these foreign instructors take English speaking lessons, she was castigated. Too practical for them, I guess.


75 posted on 04/30/2008 3:16:45 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel

She probably can’t get a real job at a university so she ‘lectures.’


76 posted on 04/30/2008 3:18:33 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: Little Bill

What bridge are you living under now? Hope it’s in warm country—smile.


77 posted on 04/30/2008 3:20:07 PM PDT by Marysecretary (.GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL)
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To: Marysecretary
A Hovel in NH, I can only afford three months in Florida, in my Small RV.

It is Gruel or grits.

78 posted on 04/30/2008 4:08:37 PM PDT by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

I dunno...the last time I trusted you I ended up buying that Enron stock...


79 posted on 04/30/2008 5:27:13 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: Ozone34

I was 99% certain she was full of crap, but after reading that blog post I’m about 125% sure she’s ful of crap.


80 posted on 04/30/2008 5:44:35 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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