Posted on 05/01/2008 4:19:13 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — A former Dartmouth College teacher and medical school researcher sent e-mails to some of her former students saying she plans to sue them because they "harassed, compromised, abused or discriminated against" her.
Priya Venkatesan, 39, who received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth in 1990, last week e-mailed the former students in her Science, Technology and Society course with the news that she is pursuing a federal civil-rights lawsuit against some of them.
Venkatesan, now at Northwestern University, said in an interview with the Valley News that she is still searching for a lawyer to take her case and would name as many as 15 students as defendants. She said Dartmouth itself and two professors also might be named.
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An affirmative action hire, I think, from a very limited field.
This proves it!
If you make comments perceived as “disrespectful” toward, ie, you disagree with, any non-white person in the world,
you are being racist.
Just like the DUmmies claim that calling Obama “Barry” is racist because it’s being disrespectful to a black man.
feminine => good
feminist => bad
elite => good
elitist => bad
piety => good
pietist => bad
In other words, don’t make too much of yourself.
I’m going to have to teach my kids two sets of “curriculum”.
Here’s the truth, your true education.
And here’s what you’ll be expected to write on your papers in college in order to get a good grade.
Postmodernism is intentionally confusing. It is meant to obscure the truth to the point that it destroys it even as a concept.
Once that is done, students are supposed to accept any sort of drivel coming from the mouths of those that seek to mold their worldview to some utter nonsense.
Apparently she had a cow, and her students weren't going to take it lying down. To her horror, they weren't even sari...
My kid has learned that if he writes his papers from a liberal/socialist point of view he gets a better grade than if he wrote it from a conservative perspective.
He hates it but it’s what he has to do make the grade.
I suggest eliminating the field of “study” entirely. All the PhD.’s in the field can become waiters.
Exactly why I gave up liberal arts and went for a technical degree :-)
Has he read Sowell’s “Conflict of Visions”?
That would give him some insight into the twisted mindset of a leftist.
I would suggest that and Evan Sayet’s lecture “Regurgitating the Apple, How Modern Liberals ‘Think’” (at Heritage).
But not in the Steinian sense.
When I was in medical school, we had an afternoon lecture given on birth control presented by someone from planned parenthood.
A women started the the lecture and after about three minutes left the topic of birth control and spent the next forty minutes ranting feminist principals.
She noticed the there were a group of men in the back and thinking they weren’t paying proper attention, pointed one out and screeched “what have I been saying for the last ten minutes”
He looked up and said “whaaa whaa whoaaaa”. The whole class erupted in laughter and she grabbed her things and stormed out.
Am I going to be sued?
“she is still searching for a lawyer to take her case”
Clearly, she doesn’t understand the US legal system. You have to hire a lawyer BEFORE you can collect any money...having retained counsel establishes the technical but necessary difference between ‘pre-trial settlement’ and extortion.
Well that fits Rush’s theory. All the radical feminists are really UGLY!
The class probably learned more from you in those few seconds about making accurate diagnoses than they did in most of their other classes combined. Way to go, doc! Bravo.
But she does understand the victimhood lottery. The great news about this incompetent's antics is that she is giving students a real-world lesson in how ridiculously these liberal orthodoxies play out when actually implemented--making it well worth the tuition shelled out for her nonsense class. The old "show, don't tell" technique does work, boys and girls. So, as it turns out, Priya Venkatesan inadvertently DID manage to convey one useful writing skill in her ostensible writing class.
Ironically, efforts to avenge the perceived assault on her tender psyche by a handful of freshmen has only resulted in Venkatesan opening herself to the ridicule of tens of thousands. If her widdow feewings were bruised before, wait til she googles herself now.
It wasn’t me, but I was one of the evil men sitting in the back of the class not paying attention.
Perhaps the students would have been better off trying to curry her favour....
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