Dartmouth Prof To Sue Her Students?

Constitution Club ^ | Tuesday, May 06, 2008 | The Hairy Beast

[Mongeaux]

It's hard to defend the indefensible, but you gotta wonder how a teacher who can't handle a freshman lit class is going to fare at any university.

Perhaps she needs to hide under the academic feminist bubble a while more, so she won't be troubled with any questions.

[subterfuge]

This really gives me some hope that our culture isn’t lost after all.

[LiteKeeper]

This may close to the ultimate in “victimology”!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

“They’d argue with your ideas.”

Well, we certainly can't have that going on in academia now can we?

[2banana]

Hmmm - men don’t really sue for rude students. But hiring men is not PC...

[purpleraine]

She needs to add the parents and all previous teachers in high school to her suit.

[CarrotAndStick]

Priya Venkatesan

[Mongeaux]

She does have a “Deer In The Headlights” look to her.

[radiohead]

"...Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on “ecofeminism..."

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.

[Mongeaux]

"...Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on “ecofeminism..."

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.

[count-your-change]

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.

[jazusamo]

Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on “ecofeminism,”

Ecofeminism? Priceless. LOL!

Then, after consulting a physician

Hopefully it was a shrink, she needs a good one.

[Mongeaux]

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.

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.

[tsmith130]

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.)

[atomicweeder]

I had a English lit professor, who was a radical feminist. I once won an argument in class about a plot detail in a short story (she had gotten the detail wrong and therefore her analysis was wrong). When she asked me to "prove it", I underlined the passage in my book and held it up for her to see.

She said (exact quote) : "I don't have to take this!" and walked out of a classroom of 30 people.

Very professional and mature /sarc

[SampleMan]

She got a job using a degree in English and she’s still upset? Unbelievable! Most of her classmates are serving up fries.

[joebuck]

I hope the defendants hammer her with a Rule 11 frivolous lawsuit claim.

[Tamar1973]

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.

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.

[Sleeping Freeper]

The poor victim. It's not her fault that she can't teach!

[ontap]

You can’t fix stupid!