Metro prof under fire for anti-Palin assignment

Rocky Mountain News ^ | 18 sept 08 | Shaun Boyd

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Metro State College is investigating a professor who asked students to write an essay critical of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin. One student said the instructor singled out Republican students in the class and allowed others to ridicule them.

"I was shocked, I was holy cow, this is just an open door for him to discuss politics with us," said Jana Barber, a student in the class.

Barber shared the first class assignment with CBS4. Instructor Andrew Hallam asked students to write an essay to contradict what he called the 'fairy tale image of Palin' presented at the Republican National Convention.

[rellimpank]

--surprise, surprise--

[AngelesCrestHighway]

“One student said the instructor singled out Republican students in the class and allowed others to ridicule them”......

The far left whack attack on America continues!.....

[weegee]

Barber shared the first class assignment with CBS4. Instructor Andrew Hallam asked students to write an essay to contradict what he called the 'fairy tale image of Palin' presented at the Republican National Convention.

How about asking the students to write about how the media can be distorted to present a biased presentation of facts and apparently broad based support. Ask them to provide a researched example of WHATEVER aspect of this election they choose to write about.

by singularly targeting one politician and starting with the conclusion that her life is a myth, it isn't research. And it is quite close to campaigning.

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Cell phones and Youtube are student's best friends. As for signing a "non-disclosure agreement", refuse to do it. The professors work for the students. It's the professors who're getting paid, the students (and their parents) who are paying. If they don't like having their Marxist dogma exposed, then tough.

We need some brave civil libertarian-type students out there to challenge the Commissars, errr, "college professors" on this.

[Publius6961]

Typical inept "reporting"...

What is the subject of the class? Contemporary politics?

Seriously, context is everything.

[Freee-dame]

"What the faculty's responsibility is to provide opportunity for critical thinking and civic engagement so bringing something of relevancy into the classroom was the faculty's goal," said Cathy Lucas, spokeswoman for Metro State.

I wonder if Ms. Lucas could diagram this sentence. Perhaps she was misquoted by the writer. Hopefully neither has ever criticized GWB for his speech patterns.

[Lent]

The far left whack attack on America continues!.....

It's like a disease isn't it? Maybe better, the plague of the loonie left.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Fire this imbecile.

[musicman]

"How about asking the students to write about how the media can be distorted to present a biased presentation of facts and apparently broad based support. Ask them to provide a researched example of WHATEVER aspect of this election they choose to write about."

[ZX12R]

What is the subject of the class? Contemporary politics?

From searching the college website, it seems he is a member of the English department, and teaches freshman composition.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Or ask why a two bit opinion that's available almost everywhere for free should be treated as fact.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I would add that it would be great if the Prof threw it out there to see if a student could logically deconstruct his flawed premise, but that’s never the case. The base for the assignment is “agree with me.”

[Logical me]

So, what’s new. Just promoted what has been said that the American colleges, by large part, are a mass of liberal sick jackass educators that never grew up.

[maica]

Good point! LOL!

[patton]

When I was taking ENG COMP in college, I sort of took it as a given that every writing assignment was fiction.

So that is what I turned in.