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 ...
“Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct.”Except for Man Made Global Warming. Now THAT'S some ROCK SOLID SCIENCE!
All the rest... well that's just so much social construct HOGWASH to your good ole', down-home leftist.
But Man Made Global Warming... well that's not just SCIENCE, you understand, that's ANTI-CAPITALISM, and that makes it CORRECT BY DEFINITION.
Does it create a “hostile environment” to “question authority”?
There are also several books available linking the eating of meat to the oppression of women.
Or countersue for ‘educational malpractice’ or ‘fraud’...
Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was “fascist demagoguery.”
There we have it, people! Now we know how to get rid of ultraliberal professors — become Fascist demagogues.
I’m game. You?
There we have it, people! Now we know how to get rid of ultraliberal professors — become Fascist demagogues.
I’m game. You?
Physician heal thyself.
If I were the students, I’d sue my parents for sending me to a hugely overrated, radical Leftist, Ivy League hellhole.
I’ve had my share of loser professors over the last 20+ years of “higher learning” . . . but this woman would take the prize of Loser Number One!
I recall Larry Summers’ leaving but don’t remember what he said that was so troublesome.
“Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct.”
If she were talking about global warming, I’d agree with her.
Yikes! Feminism really did come about so that ugly women could get jobs!
Shouldn’t she be teaching the Pakastan language?
I’m on your side, Mongeaux. By “you” I meant “you all.”
To get rid of liberal professors, what conservative wouldn’t want to wear the mantle of “Fascist demogogue,” if only for one class. I’m already considered a barbarian, a Neanderthal, and a global warming denier, so how is “Fascist demogogue” going to hurt me?
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"Facts" are a patriarchal construct, so it was sexist of you to spoil her brilliant analysis with such underhanded tactics. ;)
I had to do a bluebook a long time ago in Lit and one of the things I had to ‘analyze’ was a “brown study”; having not read the book, I filled many pages analyzing the construction of what was obviously B.S. from the back end of a horse but got a B anyway for ‘creativity’.
I bet she drives a “Priyas”.......
No, but a shot of Haldol in the butt sure could help!
Oh no I understand, the comment was not aimed at you, but at her.
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