Posted on 02/20/2015 3:07:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A literature professor at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater has offered students in her courses extra credit for attending a Thursday evening rally against budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin System proposed by Gov. Scott Walker.
The professor is Beth Lueck.
On Wednesday, Lueck notified students in her freshman English class about the exciting extra-credit assignment.
“UWW students have organized a non-partisan [sic] rally with students, faculty, and community members on the UW Whitewater campus against Gov. Walker’s proposed $300 million cut to the UW system, along with speaking out against attacks on shared governance and faculty,” Lueck wrote.
Protest organizers asked participants to meet outside the school library. From there, they would march over to Timmerman Auditorium to hear state Rep. Andy Jorgensen, a Democrat, and a local city council member speak against budget cuts.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
That should make it much easier to fire her, then.
The reason I referred to her as a professor is because she was reported to be such in the article, and I have no evidence that the article was incorrect.
That statement is oxymoronic. With the emphasis on moronic.
Why?
Do you want to ask her out?
;-)
She’s not my idea of “streetable.”
"BAIER: In 2013, you said you supported a path to citizenship for people living here illegally, but recently you've —
WALKER: Actually, I'm glad you asked about that, because the Wausau newspaper erroneously quoted me on that. They listed a video on their website that actually showed that the person who asked the question said that, not me, and ever since then I've had to deal with reports over and over again.
BAIER: So that's wrong?
WALKER: That's wrong. It's not what I said. I have said I believe we need a legal immigration system. I have said repeatedly I oppose amnesty. I think we're a nation of immigrants, but we're also a nation of laws. We should have a legal way for people to come into this country either for work or for citizenship, just like we have for generations. Part of that deal is we need to make sure we have a border that's secure, not just for immigration reasons, but as I mentioned, for national security.
I'm "the person who asked the question." Walker is wrong. We have the video to prove it.
First: Daily Herald Media did erroneously characterize one portion of Walker's answer. In the initial news report following that interview, we wrongly claimed Walker had offered an endorsement of the specific comprehensive immigration reform bill then being considered in the U.S. Senate. He hadn't. We got that wrong. We corrected the error swiftly, but we took our lumps for it and we deserved them.
But the bit about endorsing a path to citizenship? Yeah, that definitely happened.
In the interest of transparency, here's the full transcript of the 2013 exchange, which you can also watch in the video above. Emphasis added in a couple of places:
WALKER: If people want to come here and work hard in America, I don't care whether they come from Mexico or Ireland or Germany or South Africa or anywhere else, I want 'em here. To me, if people want to come and live the American dream, if they want to work hard and self-determination and have their kids have a better life, I mean that's what — whether you're folks like my brother's in-laws who immigrated a generation ago from Mexico or whether it's people like my ancestors who came from places like Ireland and Germany and other parts of the world many generations ago, there's a similar pattern there. That is, people who came, who risk a lot, whether it's traveling across an ocean or across a national border."
That doesn't sound very different from my own attitude; Americans by choice rather than accident of birth are frequently the most loyal. Welcome those who come to be one of us; reject those who only visit to use us. And any and all who embrace Islam should be permanently barred.
(Donning flameproofs, NOW)
Why did you cut and paste?
The ENTIRE thread, and in context, needs to be read.
Sorry, my bad. I took what I consider to be the most pertinent part for those who didn’t click on the link.
Bump!
Christine B. McCormick, Ph.D.
Professor and Dean
(413) 545-2705
cmccormick@educ.umass.edu
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