Posted on 09/05/2013 11:40:52 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike
Shocked? I sure am. I thought they’d just give him a quiet slap on the hand or ignore him altogether. I never expected he’d receive real consequences for leftist tirade:
CAMPUS REFORM – Michigan State administrators have suspended Prof. William Penn for the remainder of the semester, after he was caught on video going on an anti-Republican tirade on the very first day of his literature class.
In an email to students Thursday morning, Dean Karen Wurst of the College of Arts & Letters, cited his “inappropriate, disrespectful and offensive” comments.
“On Aug. 29, during your Literatures, Cultures, Identities course, Professor William Penn made comments he has acknowledged were inappropriate, disrespectful and offensive and may have negatively affected the learning environment,” she wrote. “Once MSU was made aware of the situation the Office of the Provost immediately began a review.”
“As a result, Penn’s duties have been reassigned, and he will not be teaching this semester,” she added. “A new instructor is being assigned to your course.”
Kudos to Michigan State University for protecting the classroom from political intimidation.
I consider this situation a good start.
We conservatives have lived in silence and fear for twenty years under the yoke of political correctness while these clowns indoctrinate the college kids freely.
I can guarantee that this situation is a topic for profs across the US. They all are now wondering if some student with a hidden camera will film them and put it up in YouTube.
We are still fighting strong headwinds here, but maybe, just maybe some profs will tone down the classroom propaganda as a result of this.
Of course they couldn't say "Creative Writing Professor..."
I sense the tide is turning just a little. Conservative students also own smart phones and they are not afraid to push record. Rush babies are going to college.
Yeah I’ve been reading some of the rabid screeching of the left.
They want to equate it with nazi book burning while ignoring his dehumanizing rants against conservatives and his bullying of students.
—I gave a personal example of a professor who overstepped his boundaries.—
I don’t understand why 50% of commenters on internet stories feel compelled to share irrelevant/tangential stories concerning themselves that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. “OOh, looka me me me me!”
Do you have something against people who went to GA Southern?
I am the last person to fall into the category of “OOh, looka me me me me!”, as anyone who knows me will tell you.
I don't understand why newbies on Free Republic feel compelled to start shit with long established members who have proven, in over 15,000 posts, that they know what they're talking about.
No one said you didn’t know what you were talking about. It’s just irrelevant.
It’s nice that you have been here forever. God knows how many of your 15,000 posts were irrelevant non-sequiturs about your life.
The fact that you’re going on and on about being called out over it speaks volumes.
(Handshake)
Have a nice day.
Agree. Maybe it will remind some instructors they are there to instruct the subject matter, not indoctrinate.
It was most pleasing to me that the day after the last presidential election, my National Government college students kept asking me who I voted for. They simply didn’t know. Some suspected but none were convinced.
I keep my classroom instruction balanced and fair. . .and I ask them WHY they believe the things they do. They never ever really have a reason other than that is what they saw on Bill Maher or John Stewart, or Saturday Night Live.
When challenged they have no answer and I force them to look at an issue and decide for themselves. I provide fair instruction on principles and ideas and strip away the anti-conservative biases they are so accustomed to . Like fish in water, they have no idea they are swimming in waters polluted with left-wing bias.
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