Priya Venkatesan
Posted on 05/06/2008 9:14:19 AM PDT by Mongeaux
From the Wall Street Journal:
Often it seems as though American higher education exists only to provide gag material for the outside world. The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights.Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of “French narrative theory” that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors, who she says papered over the harassment, as well as a confessional exposé, which she promises will “name names.”
What were the student’s sins? They questioned some of her assertions in class!
(Excerpt) Read more at constitutionclub.wordpress.com ...
Perhaps she needs to hide under the academic feminist bubble a while more, so she won't be troubled with any questions.
This really gives me some hope that our culture isn’t lost after all.
This may close to the ultimate in “victimology”!
Well, we certainly can't have that going on in academia now can we?
Hmmm - men don’t really sue for rude students. But hiring men is not PC...
She needs to add the parents and all previous teachers in high school to her suit.
Priya Venkatesan
She does have a “Deer In The Headlights” look to her.
Stopped reading right there. Jebus, Mary and Joseph. No wonder the students went crazy enough to ask her questions!
I'm a university prof and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get the students to question what I've said. She should feel honored that her students are actually thinking about the garbage she's pushing.
Stopped reading right there. Jebus, Mary and Joseph. No wonder the students went crazy enough to ask her questions!
I'm a university prof and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get the students to question what I've said. She should feel honored that her students are actually thinking about the garbage she's pushing.
Read the rest for a good laugh. As a college Prof you should know how the Fems use their political muscle to push their agenda within the University. They need to do this because their basic philosophy is so irrational.
Also she had a "Double Whammy" being forced to teach crit lit which is essentially "the text as propaganda". No wonder the freshmen rebelled.
Perhaps Her Ladyship, the Professor, should become a poster on FR and learn what it means to her views challenged. She might escape with a few patches of skin left intact but no guarantees.
Ecofeminism? Priceless. LOL!
Then, after consulting a physician
Hopefully it was a shrink, she needs a good one.
It wouldn't help. She can't defend her views because they are irrational. This is why Harvard President Larry Summers was ridden out of Cambridge on a rail. When you can't defend your views you can't allow them to be questioned.
I hope she’s not teaching any class when my daughter gets there in Sept. She can argue like a champ and never take a breath (and she’s pretty conservative for a 17 y.o.)
She got a job using a degree in English and she’s still upset? Unbelievable! Most of her classmates are serving up fries.
I hope the defendants hammer her with a Rule 11 frivolous lawsuit claim.
She's a propagandist passing herself off as a professor. Real professors LONG for questions from their students. They're addicted to them, in a good way. They want the challenge, they want to be kept on their toes and they want their students to be interested in the class. Questions give the teacher hope that the students actually want to be there in the first place.
You can’t fix stupid!
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