FEELING no pain
Posted on 03/17/2015 6:21:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
An associate sociology professor at Penn State University faces disorderly conduct charges....
.... 52-year-old Karen Halnon started a rant about U.S-Venezuela relations about half way through a Saturday flight from Nicaragua to Miami.
A passenger on the plane caught the rant on video, which was posted on local television websites. It also showed her lighting a cigarette and blaming it on another passenger.
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It says right in the article that she is a sociology professor.
where is the video
Defiantly a smoker.
More evidence that universities really are lunatic asylums.
Here are some of her published articles:
2006 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Heavy Metal Carnival and Disalienation: The Politics of Grotesque Realism.” Symbolic Interaction. Special Issue on Popular Music in Everyday Life. Winter, Volume 29: No. 1, pp. 33-48. (One of “The Most Frequently Read Articles” at Symbolic Interaction).
2005 Halnon, Karen Bettez and Saundra Cohen. “Muscles, Motorcycles, and Tattoos: Gentrification in a New Frontier.” Journal of Consumer Culture. March, Volume 6, 33-56. (One of “The Most Frequently Read” articles at the Journal of Consumer Culture).
2005 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Alienation Incorporated: ‘F*** the Mainstream Music’ in the Mainstream.” Current Sociology. Journal of the International Sociology Association. May, Volume 53(4): 441-464. SAGE (London, Thousand Oaks, CA and New Delhi). (One of “The Most Frequently Read Articles” at Current Sociology).
2004 Halnon, Karen Bettez. “Inside Shock Music Carnival: Spectacle as Contested Terrain.” Critical Sociology, October, Volume 30.3, pp. 743-779.
Ph.D. Sociology, December 1995
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Halnon, K. B. (1995). Women’s agency in Hysteria and its Treatment. Boston College Dissertations and Theses, AAI9613827.
Women’s agency in Hysteria
Wow
Her words in the video...”.....my Great Hero, Hugo Chavez...blah blah.....”
So she came back from Nicaragua....my guess is that she popped a lot of dope before getting on the plane.
All airlines should carry some strong duct tape, some restraints and a muzzle for idiots like this.
I don’t think even Penn State will give her tenure. This was just embarrassing....
“It also showed her lighting a cigarette and blaming it on another passenger.”
Wow, what a perfect metaphor for the tactics of our friends on the left today! Obama and Holder foment resentment and hatred in the “community” and then blame murder and mayhem on “white privilege” and such.
Research and Teaching Areas: racial and ethnic inequality; capitalism and class; White and Black poverty; empire and imperialism; Central or Latin American studies; consumption; music scenes and subcultures; liberation theology; revolution; stigma; symbolic interaction; women and madness; marijuana; sociology of deviance; Marxist theory; postmodernist criticism; ideology
She goes to the concerts for “research” and druuuugggggggs.
She is a professor, that is clue number one.
She is a professor at a State University, clue number two.
By her conduct, she demonstrates that she believes that she doesn’t follow the same rules as everyone else, To Wit}us peons. Clue three. Plus she passes the duck test.
“rules don’t apply to me because I’m special” => leftist
“All airlines should carry some strong duct tape, some restraints and a muzzle for idiots like this.”
They do. It’s part of the kit
Oh your guess is quite correct. The video is a hoot. This woman is clearly nuts.
It should have been used.
http://www.abington.psu.edu/academics/faculty/dr-karen-bettez-halnon
This appears to be her web site at Penn State.
I am disappointed so many well meaning parents help pay the salaries of such radicals.
From the looks of the descriptions of her writings, this “professor” truly disdains the type of people who work hard, pay their bills, play by the rules, worship their Creator, and love their country.
She had another captive audience.....like her classroom. What a nut.
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