Posted on 11/22/2011 4:05:14 PM PST by Hunton Peck
A law professor who is serving overseas in Afghanistan has quit his job at a Massachusetts university after a colleague sent out a controversial e-mail declaring it "shameful" to send care packages to U.S. troops.
U.S. Army Reserve Maj. Robert Roughsedge cut ties with Suffolk University in Boston in response to fellow law professor Michael Avery's defamatory e-mail regarding troops fighting overseas, Fox affiliate WFXT-TV reports.
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In response to Avery's email, Roughsedge submitted his letter of resignation on Monday, telling WTXF in a telephone interview that the e-mail is "hate speech."
"It’s basically like a 5-year-old throwing a temper tantrum," he told the station. "That is not how we teach our students to rationally look at the issues…We want rational adult discourse and that is not something I would tolerate in my class and it is not something the school should tolerate from one of its professors."
Roughsedge was a member of the adjunct faculty at Suffolk University for eight years and taught a popular course on terrorism and the law. He left for Afghanistan in Dec. 2010 and is expected to return home to New Hampshire next month.
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How long before this Avery clown starts whining that his free speech rights are being violated?
Many people who live in this country are disgusting degenerates, undeserving of the freedoms provided to them by their superiors.
And this is not news? WHY NOT?
And this is not news? WHY NOT?
The F was given to me by another Professor.
What these bstrds don't realize is that they are the first to go when the US goes upside down.
God bless you Major Roughsedge for your service to this Republic, and for your principled stand regarding this disgraceful action by the other professor...who, IMHO, does not deserve the title. Bravo Zulu to you sir!
What a loss for the college, but what courage! (I DO disagree with the major for suggesting that the leftard professor/critic did not have the RIGHT to make his idiotic statement. He did — and I’m glad he made it, at least in the sense that “now I know who the idiot is.”)
We need more soldier-professors!
University lost an order of magnitude in IQ.
I salute his stand, but unfortunately he probably wasn't full-time faculty. He was adjunct, which means he probably has his own law practice and teaches a course as an additional professional activity.
What this underscores is what we already know - that we have a huge problem at our universities.
I just finished serving over there, and ran into MAJ Roughsedge on a fairly regular basis. A good officer, and a good guy. Suffolk U. owes an apology...
That state which separates it’s warriors from it’s scholars will have it’s thinking done by cowards and fighting done by fools. - Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War
So much for our colleges being a “forum for free expression of thought ! Mr. Avery - as a private citizen/educator - has every right to express himself on any issue ! But how does “Judge Avery” decide cases presented him, given this anti-constitutional/military bias ? Does/has he recused himself from such cases ? >PS
The 38% that vote dem without regard to who is the candidate.
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