Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Decision whether to use 'Jesus Stomp' assignment is up to faculty
WPTV.com ^ | July 18, 2013 | Marissa Bagg

Posted on 07/18/2013 5:44:01 PM PDT by don-o

BOCA RATON, Fla. - There have been major changes at Florida Atlantic University since the 'Jesus Stomp' assignment made headlines.

Former president Mary Jane Saunders stepped down from her job, and the professor who used the controversial exercise was reinstated.

Now school leaders are answering questions on what was learned from the ordeal.

"How do we deal with sensitive issues? How do we deal with academic freedom, because this is where we're supposed to enjoy it, and at the same time balance that with responsibility," said Interim Dean Heather Coltman at the College of Arts and Letters.

Last Spring a student complained when a professor at the FAU Davie campus asked the class to write the letters J-E-S-U-S on a piece of paper and contemplate stepping on it. That complaint started a firestorm that forced the professor on paid administrative leave, and even prompted Governor Rick Scott to become involved.

Technically the 'Jesus Stomp' exercise is allowed back in the classroom, but that doesn't mean faculty will use it.

"People will think twice about using that particular exercise in that setting, although there have been faculty who say they want to use it just to make a point," said professor Tim Lenz.

In a letter to the State University System, FAU's provost outlined extensive training for faculty come fall. It will focus on how to deal with controversy while respecting academic freedom.

"I thought it was a sensitive statement that reflected the university's responsibility to provide a safe environment and one where students will feel free to comment in class.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS:
The plunge to absolute depravity continues apace.
1 posted on 07/18/2013 5:44:01 PM PDT by don-o
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: don-o

what if a student suggests a Koran stomp?


2 posted on 07/18/2013 5:45:18 PM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: don-o

Use the Hispanic pronunciation, HEY soos (The Hey soos Stomp) and see if all hell doesn’t break loose during the “national conversation” about “immigration” that the commie pigs are having with each other. The race cards would be flying!!!


3 posted on 07/18/2013 5:49:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Keep your powder dry.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: don-o

Mr. Mercat and I were walking back to our car from our favorite restaurant in Lawrence Kansas near where we live when we saw a bunch of words written on cardboard and taped to the ground where people would walk on them. There was music playing and it was some sort of “happening” like you see in college towns. I saw the word “Jesus” so I pulled it up. I still wish someone had confronted me about it.


4 posted on 07/18/2013 5:49:50 PM PDT by Mercat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer

a student who does OBAMA STOMP or ALLAH STOMP would be expelled


5 posted on 07/18/2013 5:50:48 PM PDT by GeronL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: don-o

Leave it up to the studenrs? Would they rather stomp on Jesus or allah—or the prof?


6 posted on 07/18/2013 5:51:45 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: don-o

How about a Saint Trayvon stomp?


7 posted on 07/18/2013 5:55:20 PM PDT by Flick Lives (We're going to be just like the old Soviet Union, but with free cell phones!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: don-o
"How do we deal with sensitive issues? How do we deal with academic freedom, because this is where we're supposed to enjoy it, and at the same time balance that with responsibility,"

Academic freedom does not extend to bullying students, nor does it extend to trampling (in a literal sense, in this case) the students' right to freedom of religion.
8 posted on 07/18/2013 5:57:32 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: don-o

How about Professor Stomp? Or Bill Ayers Stomp? Or Gay “Rainbow” Flag Stomp?

(It seriously ticks me off that the rainbow has been taken over by the homo/lesbos.)


9 posted on 07/18/2013 6:01:19 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K

What about a Trayvon Martin stomp?


10 posted on 07/18/2013 6:03:26 PM PDT by Alex in chains
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K

What next? The Moses dump? This university has some serious employee problems from Jihadists to Marxists.

So where is the so -called conservative governor? Hiding from the fall-out of the appointment of Prosecutor Angela Corey to the Zimmerman trial, no doubt.

Florida needs a good political enema of the conservative kind. Got to get rid of the Crists’, RINOS, Grayson’s, Wasserman-Putz, etc.


11 posted on 07/18/2013 6:07:40 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Mr. K

No professor ever will.


12 posted on 07/18/2013 6:21:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: don-o; All
The way the article reads, the remedy for this situation was decided by the university, not by the courts. The problem with the university deciding the remedy is that university thugs are given the wet noodle just like the thugs that Obama has given government jobs to get the wet noodle when they misbehave.

Regarding expressions of hate against Jesus and his followers promoted by pagan university professors, I remember an earlier thread which mentioned Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Cmty. Sch. Dist.. Florida professors evidently don't understand concerning Tinker that, “students do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate," a statement which applies to the example of this thread imo. I think that the Supreme Court's conclusion likewise protects the religious aspect of 1A-protected freedoms.

I also think that Florida citizens should consider working with their state lawmakers to make punitive laws to protect students in such cases. Such laws would help prevent activist judges from letting so-called professors get away with wasting students' time with such things.

13 posted on 07/18/2013 6:44:32 PM PDT by Amendment10
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: don-o
How do we deal with academic freedom, because this is where we're supposed to enjoy it...

I think I see the problem.

They think "academic freedom" means that they are free to inflict their will and beliefs on the students.

The concept of the students having academic freedom (the very people to whom it actually applies) is an alien concept to them.

14 posted on 07/18/2013 6:46:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson