Professor Fired Over Va. Tech Discussion

Fox News ^ | April 23, 2007 | Associated Press

[L98Fiero]

Wow. America, I hardly knew ye.

[presidio9]

Professor Churchill is deeply saddened.

[Rummyfan]

Ridiculous. Is there any climate in the USA more wussified than our colleges and universities?

[Rummyfan]

Ridiculous. Is there any climate in the USA more wussified than our colleges and universities?

[agere_contra]

An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow."

I know the phrase is overused, but if his firing isn't a classic hysterical liberal kneejerk reaction to what ought to be a perfectly normal discussion on current events then I don't know what is.

[DocRock]

Check my tagline...

[Vaquero]

We have to take back AMERICA.

this is rediculous.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

The time has clearly come when we need alternatives to most US colleges and universities.

[MinstrelBoy]

How about civil service or military service for the patriotic, self-disciplined, or mature?

[Thrownatbirth]

Winset pretended to shoot some students. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset

In elementary school, this is known as "recess" and it's free.

[Wuli]

ping

[mikeus_maximus]

The core of liberalism is not concern, not compassion, not reason, not goodwill— it’s self obsession. Case in point.

[From One - Many]

liberalism doesn't want the public armed, because
An armed public, doesn't want liberalism.

To defend oneself isn't following the liberal dogma.
Piss off a liberal, stay armed!

[quantim]

Winset, who taught financial accounting,

Perhaps in the future he'll stick with the topic he was hired for.

[The_Reader_David]

I strongly suspect that this is an example of academic political correctness run amok, but there is something about he report that suggests there may be more here than is being reported:

The college’s statement is a non-sequitur if the adjunct was fired for a colorfully illustrated discussion of the right to self-defense. There is nothing ‘discrimanatory’ or obscene in the the instructor’s language or behavior as reported. I would have expected the statement to have included instead some imbecility about the inappropriateness of ‘simulated weapons’ in a classroom discussion if the cause of his firing is as reported.

Of course, I admit that the offices which issue such statements, and worry themselves about ‘discrimanatory’ language, are not hotbeds of rational thought, so it may well be the case that the college’s statement simply is a non-sequitur.

Still, despite agreeing with the reported point the instructor was making, and seeing nothing at all wrong with the classroom method reported, I’d like a fuller report before forming an opinion of the justice or injustice of his dismissal.

[tioga]

a MARKER, as in a dry erase board marker????

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

In today’s climate actual crimes are nothing. Words are everything.

[Grut]

...a classic hysterical liberal kneejerk reaction...

I dunno, in this case it might be just good old nonsectarian/nonideological academic moral cowardice.

[jacknhoo]

The message from the liberals is clear that women are good and men are evil and that what men need is to be more like women or be punished.