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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: abuse; academia; dartmouth; discrimination; ecofeminism; educationaltyranny; france; harrass; indoctrination; questionauthority
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To: rod1
I have taught at an Ivy league University for 31 years (undergrads, grad students and professions students in science/medicine). If your not ready to field questions and even challenges to points you make in a lecture...you shoudl not even set foot in the classroom.

You taught at this level for 31 years, and still don't know the proper usage of "your" and "you're"?

Sorry, could not resist...

41 posted on 05/01/2008 8:06:37 AM PDT by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: Rebelbase
"a student contradicted her during a lecture on feminism and science, drawing applause from some of his classmates. Venkatesan said she was “horrified” and canceled class for a couple of days.”"

I smell an incompetent leftist who was tripped up by her own idiocy and a student who actually knew something about science???
42 posted on 05/01/2008 8:34:02 AM PDT by Enchante (Obama: My 1930s Foreign Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Social Policy!)
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To: KosmicKitty
"Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric"

If we just think about how inappropriate it is for a writing program to offer a course on "feminism and science" then it will be obvious what kind of agenda she represents.
43 posted on 05/01/2008 8:38:04 AM PDT by Enchante (Obama: My 1930s Foreign Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Social Policy!)
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To: Past Your Eyes
"My intent was to do my job, but it got met with a lot of hostility," said Venkatesan, who quit her teaching post in March. "The way I read it is that maybe it has something to do with my ethnicity or my gender. Possibly both, I don’t know."

It could be, though, that it has something to do with being a feminist who believes that her measly Masters in Genetics from UC Davis qualifies her to make feminist critiques of science.
44 posted on 05/01/2008 8:45:53 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: cspackler
No problem. Thanks goodness for continuing education. and I had better pursue some more.
45 posted on 05/01/2008 8:47:43 AM PDT by rod1 (uestion)
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To: 6SJ7

So Dartmouth is a “bigoted place”. LMAO!!! Apparently it isn’t nearly liberal enough for this ugly cow.
I live in the county where Dartmouth is located (on the extreme other side, fortunately) and I can tell you that the place is plenty more than liberal enough for my tastes. Obama and Hillary campaign signs abound in the area.
They are bigoted against conservatives but probably not much else.


46 posted on 05/01/2008 12:39:51 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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To: cspackler

I was going to let that pass but I did notice it.
“;^)


47 posted on 05/01/2008 12:42:56 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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To: Eepsy
"Perhaps the students would have been better off trying to curry her favour...."

Or, in her case, favour her curry.
Sorry, couldn't resist.

48 posted on 05/01/2008 12:50:28 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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To: Eepsy
"Perhaps the students would have been better off trying to curry her favour...."

Or, in her case, favour her curry.
Sorry, couldn't resist.

49 posted on 05/01/2008 12:50:31 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Bill Clinton: Life Member of the Liars' Club.)
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To: Tax-chick; dawn53; Grampa Dave; BIGLOOK; Fred Nerks; LucyT; Liz; neverdem; SunkenCiv; MAINE-IAC; ...
Ms. Venkatesan lectured in freshman composition, intended to introduce undergraduates to the rigors of expository argument. "My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful,"

After a winter of discontent, the snapping point came while Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on "eco-feminism,"...

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50 posted on 05/05/2008 5:58:23 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Considering how she’s behaving, it’s no wonder they disrespected her.

Nothing like making a fool of yourself for the whole world to see.


51 posted on 05/05/2008 6:29:18 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Hyzenthlay

Ping to post 50 and check out the link.


52 posted on 05/05/2008 6:39:18 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Gabz; SoftballMominVA

School ping


53 posted on 05/05/2008 6:40:16 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Past Your Eyes; Amelia; Gabz; SoftballMominVA; abclily; aberaussie; albertp; AliVeritas; ...

Public Education Ping

This list is for intellectual discussion of articles and issues related to public education (including charter schools) from the preschool to university level. Items more appropriately placed on the “Naughty Teacher” list, “Another reason to Homeschool” list, or of a general public-school-bashing nature will not be pinged.

If you would like to be on or off this list, please freepmail Amelia, Gabz, Shag377, or SoftballMominVa

54 posted on 05/06/2008 1:11:35 PM PDT by SoftballMominVA
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To: Past Your Eyes

What a whiner!


55 posted on 05/06/2008 4:28:21 PM PDT by Amelia
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To: george76; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

Thanks geo. I guess she’s never heard that old saying, if you can’t take the heat, just wait ‘til you go straight to Hell. :’)

http://dukederm.duke.edu/wysiwyg/images/Picture4.jpg

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/images/chapters/op/c12—professor-umbridge.jpg


56 posted on 05/06/2008 10:28:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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