Posted on 03/19/2018 6:05:30 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The campus mob at the University of Pennsylvania Law School has scored a hit. Prof. Amy Wax will no longer be allowed to teach required first-year courses, the school’s dean announced last week. Now the leader of Black Lives Matter Pennsylvania wants Ms. Wax’s scalp. According to a weekend newspaper report, if she isn’t fired within a week, “he plans to make things on the West Philadelphia campus very uncomfortable.”
Ms. Wax’s sin this time was to discuss publicly the negative consequences of affirmative action. Her punishment underscores again the dangers of speaking uncomfortable truths in a university setting.
The academic left has been gunning for Ms. Wax since last August, when she co-wrote a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed calling for a return to the “bourgeois culture” of the 1950s. She was branded a white supremacist for advocating personal responsibility, even though the op-ed criticized “the single-parent, antisocial habits, prevalent among some working-class whites.”
Half the Penn law faculty signed an open letter denouncing the op-ed. The dean, Ted Ruger, asked her to take a leave of absence and stop teaching her first-year course, Ms. Wax wrote last month in this newspaper. She declined his request. (The law school denied her account and said the discussion was merely “about the timing of a regularly-accrued sabbatical.”)
The latest outrage arises from a web video Ms. Wax recorded in September with Glenn Loury, an economist at Brown University. Forty or so minutes in, the discussion turned to racial preferences. Mr. Loury noted that, on average, students admitted via preferences “are less academically qualified—by definition!” Ms. Wax brought up the “mismatch” effect: the idea that the so-called beneficiaries of preferences have difficulty competing with peers who were admitted without them. “Take Penn Law School, or some top 10 law school,” Ms. Wax said.
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“he plans to make things on the West Philadelphia campus very uncomfortable.”
Terroristic threat, yes?
The only question that should be asked is was she stating true facts? Liberals never ask. The truth is their undoing.
This can work both ways. If Dean Ruger takes an unfair employment action against Prof. Wax, then interested members of the public should write the disciplinary committee of the Pennsylvania state Bar and ask them to open up an investigation as to whether Ruger should be disbarred, as he has violated her rights and whatever legal protections she is entitled to as a woman.
7 Techniques Liberals Use to Silence Conservatives
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3640106/posts
#4 with an ongoing threat of #2
Whatever happened to the debate team?
The looney leftists cannot stand to hear the points of argument. It is always about prevailing on their point. Phooey.
Thomas Sowell has talked about this result for at least two decades, maybe three.
Ping.
So sad what it has become. Ben spinning in his grave.
Its a paradox, but so-called “academics” are actually the most bureaucratic, ideological and stupid people you will ever meet.
Don’t confuse me with the facts. I have my own reality and will have my own set of facts to support it!
Another academic outrage to go along with the likes of the Water Buffalo incident and the stolen DP’s at Penn - the UofP just keeps rolling along.....
I read this week that it was big GOP donor Steve Wynn, real estate mogul, who had his name removed from his donations on Penn campus.
I also hope the GOP and Trump administration make good on their idea of taxing university endowments. The universities have in effect formed their own extraconstitutional foreign governments, while milking those Federal research dollars and student loans.
For fiscal year 2017, college endowments with more than $500 million had a median investment gain of 13.3%. For endowments of all sizes, that gain was 11.3% The top 10 university endowments by size hold an unbelievable amount of wealth. Harvard University's endowment had an 8.1% increase in 2017, bringing it to $37.1 billion. Yale University had an 11.3% increase, bringing it up to $27.2 billion.
Bring the jackhammers in an 18th century horse-drawn cart like Ben would have uses, and let the horses drop yesterday’s dinner all over the place.
would have used
Ah - add a bit of horsesh*t to the bullsh*t that already permeates the campus - good plan......
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