Posted on 05/10/2008 12:07:06 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
From her bio...
After obtaining a BA from Dartmouth College, I have an MS in Genetics from UC Davis and a PhD in Literature from UC San Diego. My first book, Molecular Biology in Narrative Form, was just released. My current position is as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, which will form the basis of my latest manuscript, A Postmodernist in the Laboratory.Mendacious modern academics.
Has she gotten an estimate of how much it will cost to remove the corn cob from her butt?
Nice to see despite decades of PC indoctrination med students are still not willing to swallow the BS.
“Intersection of science and literature” my a##....
While with the military for so many years...I took a fair amount of classes which the Air Force paid for. Going from base to base...I probably had fifty different instructors throughout my class career. At least ten of them were individuals who knew nothing about the subject. Two guys barely spoke English. One was a homeless out-of-work Geology professor who was sleeping in her Volkswagen van behind her sister’s house in Tacoma. I had one professor who was on some kind of pain medication and slurred every third word for the entire semester.
I would agree that there are some great professors out there....but for each ten of these guys....there are at least three professors who should not be teaching and would be better managers of some Baskin Robbins.
I don't know, she can use the proceeds of the lawsuit cover that. Her book is up on Amazon and judging by the 1 customer review it is clear why her students rebelled. Here's a synopsis from elsewhere:
Priya Venkatesan Hays takes an interdisciplinary approach to achieve a secure and functional connection between molecular biology and French narrative theory. Using the notion that science, specifically DNA is a set of codes and literature is in the form of another set of codes, she explores the semiotic possibilities of interaction. Given this bridge, the projects and agendas of scientists and narratologists become closer than previously imagined. Although she will obviously appeal to those interested in epistemology per se, Hays also has created a model for those seeking linkages between other fields that appear to be mutually exclusive. For the literary-minded she explains the processes of molecular biology she uses; for others she also explains the equivalent narrative theory. For both, she builds toward a reassessment of molecular biology in the context of advancing a narrative analysis, works on a semiotics of scientific discovery, and provides historical and sociological frameworks from narrative and semiotic perspectives.
I know this all too well. On the flip side there are some professor who are absolutley brilliant and know the subject inside and out, but have no speaking or teaching skills at all. Also I am a student of geology, don’t assume we are all hippies who drive a VW bus.
A Postmodernist in the Laboratory - this is her book?
I don’t expect to see it anytime soon on the best seller list!
Yep, definitely a cure for insomnia.
Don't know how much it would cost, but they would either have to blast or get a D-8 Caterpillar with some heavy anchor chain to pull it out.
The Law stoops not to trifles.
Ms. Venkatesan's scholarly specialty is "science studies," which, as she wrote in a journal article last year, "teaches that scientific knowledge has suspect access to truth." She continues: "Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct."After a winter of discontent, the snapping point came while Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on "ecofeminism," which holds, in part, that scientific advancements benefit the patriarchy but leave women out. One student took issue, and reasonably so – actually, empirically so.
Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was "fascist demagoguery." Then, after consulting a physician about "intellectual distress," she cancelled classes for a week. Thus the pending litigation.
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LOL! The Brave New World where everyone has the right to a 4.0 GPA.
http://freedomeden.blogspot.com/2008/04/priya-venkatesan.html
From a cursory perusal, I feel confident in saying that she is definitely guilty of something.
Thanks!
(I wrote “adept” when I meant “inept.”
But that’s the “guilty” picture, alright!!!
“lecturer”
“My responsibility is not to stifle them, but when they clapped at his comment, I thought that crossed the line … I was facing intolerance of ideas and intolerance of freedom of expression.”
Lulz. Find video of people clapping for her at her lectures.
Close down immigration until we can assimilate these pigs with traditional American values.
Suing your way to fame and fortune is not the American way.
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