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Dartmouth students get e-mails from former teacher claiming disrespect
Foster's Daily Democrat ^ | May 1, 2008 | unk

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at fosters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: abuse; academia; dartmouth; discrimination; ecofeminism; educationaltyranny; france; harrass; indoctrination; questionauthority
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To: Rebelbase
All too common in my experience. It would be nice if a few more would stand up to their professorial bullies, but pragmatism is a harsh mistress.
21 posted on 05/01/2008 5:17:22 AM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: Tax-chick

An affirmative action hire, I think, from a very limited field.


22 posted on 05/01/2008 5:19:11 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Rebelbase

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.


23 posted on 05/01/2008 5:21:15 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: mkjessup

feminine => good
feminist => bad
elite => good
elitist => bad
piety => good
pietist => bad

In other words, don’t make too much of yourself.


24 posted on 05/01/2008 5:24:43 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Rebelbase

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.


25 posted on 05/01/2008 5:26:23 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: KosmicKitty

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.


26 posted on 05/01/2008 5:28:04 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Past Your Eyes; aculeus; dighton; martin_fierro; dead; Charles Henrickson
Venkatesan, who is Indian

Apparently she had a cow, and her students weren't going to take it lying down. To her horror, they weren't even sari...

27 posted on 05/01/2008 5:29:24 AM PDT by Ezekiel
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To: MrB

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.


28 posted on 05/01/2008 5:30:30 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Carbon is the fifth most abundant element on the planet.)
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To: arthurus

I suggest eliminating the field of “study” entirely. All the PhD.’s in the field can become waiters.


29 posted on 05/01/2008 5:38:46 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Como estrella en claro cielo, de fulgente resplandor, escogida fue Maria por designo del Senor.)
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To: MrB
Postmodernism is intentionally confusing. It is meant to obscure the truth to the point that it destroys it even as a concept.

Exactly why I gave up liberal arts and went for a technical degree :-)

30 posted on 05/01/2008 5:40:23 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: Rebelbase

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).


31 posted on 05/01/2008 5:43:18 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Ezekiel; Past Your Eyes; dighton; martin_fierro; dead; Charles Henrickson
Apparently she had a cow

But not in the Steinian sense.

32 posted on 05/01/2008 5:51:44 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Past Your Eyes

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?


33 posted on 05/01/2008 5:52:02 AM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: Past Your Eyes
Gawker has some emails from this professor as well as her picture.
34 posted on 05/01/2008 6:21:01 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Izzy Dunne

“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.


35 posted on 05/01/2008 6:49:17 AM PDT by Clioman
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To: 6SJ7

Well that fits Rush’s theory. All the radical feminists are really UGLY!


36 posted on 05/01/2008 6:55:13 AM PDT by 70th Division (If we loose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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To: dangerdoc

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.


37 posted on 05/01/2008 7:06:07 AM PDT by Eroteme
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To: Clioman
Clearly, she doesn’t understand the US legal system.

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.

38 posted on 05/01/2008 7:42:48 AM PDT by Eroteme
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To: Eroteme

It wasn’t me, but I was one of the evil men sitting in the back of the class not paying attention.


39 posted on 05/01/2008 7:57:07 AM PDT by dangerdoc (dangerdoc (not actually dangerous any more))
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To: Ezekiel

Perhaps the students would have been better off trying to curry her favour....


40 posted on 05/01/2008 8:02:41 AM PDT by Eepsy (The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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