Metro State Prof Investigated For Palin Assignment

[ReverendHellh0und]

How come we never hear of this happening by right wing professors? :shock:

Metro State Prof Investigated For Palin Assignment

cbs4denver.com - Metro State Professor Investigated For Palin Essay Assignment

Metro State College is investigating a professor who asked students to write an essay critical of Republican vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin. One student said the instructor singled out Republican students in the class and allowed others to ridicule them.

"I was shocked, I was holy cow, this is just an open door for him to discuss politics with us," said Jana Barber, a student in the class.

Barber shared the first class assignment with CBS4. Instructor Andrew Hallam asked students to write an essay to contradict what he called the 'fairy tale image of Palin' presented at the Republican National Convention.

 

[Panther]

How come we never hear of this happening by right wing professors? :shock:

Because they're as rare as patriotic liberals.

 

[Metropolis]

How come we never hear of this happening by right wing professors?

Unlike them, we have brains.

 

[Kernel Sanders]

What a douche. You're supposed to teach, not proselytize

 

[American]

Unlike them, we have brains.

I've always said that libertarians are nothing but slightly modified liberals.

 

[Metropolis]

I've always said that libertarians are nothing but slightly modified liberals.

Yeah. The slight modification is that we have the ability to think logically.

 

[jfuh]

How come we never hear of this happening by right wing professors? :shock:

Simple, because to have achieved that level of academic prowess entails seeing through the one liner bull**** talking points - hence unlikely to be right wing.

As for the prof in question - what a douche - something tells me his tenure is on review now.

 

[ADK_Forever]

Because they're as rare as patriotic liberals.

Nothing intelligent to contribute, ehh? :doh

 

[GottaHurt]

"Those that can — do: those that can't — teach."

What we're witnessing is all the losers from the 60's & 70's who've schmoozed their way into tenure, are now being exposed as the frauds they've always been.

 

[jin1776]

Simple, because to have achieved that level of academic prowess entails seeing through the one liner bull**** talking points -

"Change, yes we can" Sorry but I have yet to see a single coherent policy platforrm coming out of Obama.

 

[justone]

Could it be the student's fault? She did choose courses where she could not gain any knowledge. It was a kind of obvious if she was a conservative. Nobody made her...

 

[Panther]

Nothing intelligent to contribute, ehh? :doh

Nope. If I don't have anything intelligent to offer, I'll throw out a jab at the liberals. If I do have something intelligent to offer, about half the time I'll post it, the other half, I'll opt for the jab at the liberals instead.

 

[ADK_Forever]

Nope. If I don't have anything intelligent to offer, I'll throw out a jab at the liberals. If I do have something intelligent to offer, about half the time I'll post it, the other half, I'll opt for the jab at the liberals instead.

Good to know.

 

[jfuh]

"Those that can — do: those that can't — teach."

What we're witnessing is all the losers from the 60's & 70's who've schmoozed their way into tenure, are now being exposed as the frauds they've always been.

ahhh, the hardcore typical right wing talking points now.
The media is biased, the universities are full of hippies.
Great, don't send your kid to college then - I mean why bother, they'll just be indoctrinated right?
I'd love to see you actually support the "those that can't - teach" argument.

 

[jfuh]

"Change, yes we can" Sorry but I have yet to see a single coherent policy platforrm coming out of Obama.

Read his campaign website then.
I have yet to see a single policy of McCain's that is not what is the status quo already.

 

[ReverendHellh0und]

Simple, because to have achieved that level of academic prowess entails seeing through the one liner bull**** talking points - hence unlikely to be right wing.

my guess the irony of you post here is lost on you.

As for the prof in question - what a douche - something tells me his tenure is on review now.

no ****.

 

[jfuh]

my guess the irony of you post here is lost on you.

:lamo :lamo most certainly is :lamo :lamo

 

[partier9]

My dad was in college during the Reagan years and his college professor for political science was a liberal professor. My dad at the time was Reagan Democrat and thought his professor was an idiot, but he was incredibly bias. He would give papers that were against what ever Reagan did an A and if they were for Reagan they did bad. So during his final exam my dad wrote an essay that agreed with all of the professor's ideas and got an A on the exam. Now according to my dad his friend wrote a paper that was conservative and for Reagan he got a C. Now my dad read his friends paper and everything about was better than his in every way. Just a family story I thought I would share.:mrgreen:

 

[GottaHurt]

ahhh, the hardcore typical right wing talking points now.

Everything you don't like is a "typical right wing talking point".

The media is biased, the universities are full of hippies.

The media is biased. There was a huge diversity of people from the 60's & 70's, funny you singled out hippies.

Great, don't send your kid to college then - I mean why bother, they'll just be indoctrinated right?

Our kids are fine, as evidenced by Jana Barber, who didn't stand for the asshat professor and his bull**** assignment.

I'd love to see you actually support the "those that can't - teach" argument.

Andrew Hallam & Ward Churchhill come to mind.

 

[jallman]

My dad was in college during the Reagan years and his college professor for political science was a liberal professor. My dad at the time was Reagan Democrat and thought his professor was an idiot, but he was incredibly bias. He would give papers that were against what ever Reagan did an A and if they were for Reagan they did bad. So during his final exam my dad wrote an essay that agreed with all of the professor's ideas and got an A on the exam. Now according to my dad his friend wrote a paper that was conservative and for Reagan he got a C. Now my dad read his friends paper and everything about was better than his in every way. Just a family story I thought I would share.:mrgreen:

I had a professor like that but it was the Catholic Church he was biased against. Anything written in his class that mentioned the RCC without an obligatory nasty comment to go along with it was demeaned and the paper was sure to get a letter grade lower. Now I don't know how he expected us to write about John Milton and Geoffrey Chaucer without mentioning the Catholic Church and being that I am Catholic, I certainly wasn't going to say undeservedly harsh things about the RCC just to help him through whatever trauma he had over the Catholic Church. My guess is that some nuns barbecued his pet kitten and fed it to him when he was younger because only something like that could account for his rabid hatred.

In the end, I had to take some of my papers to the dean of CHASS to have them regraded because it got so bad OTHER students reported his derision toward me. Every one of those papers was given an A where he had given them C's and D's.

 

[ReverendHellh0und]

:lamo :lamo most certainly is :lamo :lamo

[qouote]Originally Posted by jfuh
Simple, because to have achieved that level of academic prowess entails seeing through the one liner bull**** talking points - hence unlikely to be right wing.[/quote]



Yup it is... even with my typo. :lol:

 

[shuamort]

How come we never hear of this happening by right wing professors? :shock:

Because, besides for economics, there aren't any right wing(republican) professors. Check out David Horowitz' organization "Students for Academic Freedom" which aims to, among other things, get more conservatives into university faculties that they view as being overwhelmingly dominated by leftists and liberals.



Tax Law Professor Expelled From Republican Party Post for Supporting Obama
Tax Professor Jan Ting (Temple), the Delaware Republican Party's candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006, has been expelled from the Delaware Republican Party Committee for quietly supporting Barack Obama for President. Delaware GOP's Ting Pays Price for Supporting Obama (Delaware News Journal), by Sean O'Sullivan:

The Delaware Republican Party's standard-bearer in the 2006 race for U.S. Senate has been expelled from his position in the state GOP. His crime? Quietly supporting Democrat Barack Obama for president.

"Evidently someone went online and saw that I had been making contributions to Obama," Jan Ting said Friday.

Ting also was captured in a photograph at an Obama rally in Wilmington in February that drew record crowds to Rodney Square. At the time, Ting declined to comment about why he was there.

More reading:

"The New PC: Crybaby Conservatives" by Russell Jacoby, from The Nation,


Conservatives complain relentlessly that they do not get a fair shake in the university, and they want parity--that is, more conservatives on faculties. Conservatives are lonely on American campuses as well as beleaguered and misunderstood. News that tenured poets vote Democratic or that Kerry received far more money from professors than Bush pains them. They want America's faculties to reflect America's political composition. Of course, they do not address such imbalances in the police force, Pentagon, FBI, CIA and other government outfits where the stakes seem far higher and where, presumably, followers of Michael Moore are in short supply. If life were a big game of Monopoly, one might suggest a trade to these conservatives: You give us one Pentagon, one Department of State, Justice and Education, plus throw in the Supreme Court, and we will give you every damned English department you want.

Conservatives claim that studies show an outrageous number of liberals on university faculties and increasing political indoctrination or harassment of conservative students. In fact, only a very few studies have been made, and each is transparently limited or flawed. The most publicized investigations amateurishly correlate faculty departmental directories with local voter registration lists to show a heavy preponderance of Democrats. What this demonstrates about campus life and politics is unclear. Yet these findings are endlessly cited and cross-referenced as if by now they confirm a tiresome truth: leftist domination of the universities. A column by George Will affects a world-weariness in commenting on a recent report. "The great secret is out: Liberals dominate campuses. Coming soon: 'Moon Implicated in Tides, Studies Find.'"

The most careful study is "How Politically Diverse Are the Social Sciences and Humanities?" Conducted by California economist Daniel Klein and Swedish social scientist Charlotta Stern, it has been trumpeted by many conservatives as a corrective to the hit-and-miss efforts of previous inquiries by going directly to the source. The researchers sent out almost 5,500 questionnaires to professors in six disciplines in order to tabulate their political orientation. A whopping 70 percent of the recipients did what any normal person would do when receiving an unsolicited fourteen-page survey over the signature of an assistant dean at a small California business school: They tossed it. With just 17 percent of their initial pool remaining after the researchers made additional exclusions, some unastounding findings emerged. Thirty times as many anthropologists voted Democratic as voted Republican; for sociologists the ratio was almost the same. For economists, however, it sank to three to one. On average these professors voted Democratic over Republican fifteen to one.

What does it show that fifty-four philosophy professors admitted to voting Democratic regularly and only four to voting Republican? Does a Democratic vote reveal a dangerous philosophical or campus leftism? Are Democrats more likely to deceive students? Proselytize them? Harass them? Steal library books? Must they be neutralized by Republican professors, who are free of these vices? This study opens by quoting the conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks on the loneliness of campus conservatives and closes by bemoaning the "one-party system" of faculties. Nonleftist voices are "muffled and fearful," the researchers say. They do not, however, present a scintilla of information to confirm this. It is not a minor point. No matter how well tuned, studies of professorial voting habits reveal nothing of campus policies or practices.

The notion that faculties should politically mirror the US population derives from an affirmative action argument about the underrepresentation of African-Americans, Latinos or women in certain areas. Conservatives now add political orientation, based on voting behavior, to the mix. "In the U.S. population in general, Left and Right are roughly equal (1 to 1)," Klein and Stern lecture us, but in social science and humanities faculties "clearly the non-Left points of view have been marginalized." This is "clearly" not true, or at least it is not obvious what constitutes a "non-Left" point of view in art history or linguistics. In any event, why stop with left and right? Why not add religion to the underrepresentation violation? Perhaps Klein, the lead researcher, should explore Jewish and Christian affiliation among professors. A survey would probably show that Jews, 1.3 percent of the population, are seriously overrepresented in economics and sociology (as well as other fields). Isn't it likely that Jews marginalize Christianity in their classes? Shouldn't this be corrected? Shouldn't 76 percent of American faculty be Christian?

The Klein study and others like it focus on the humanities and social sciences. Conservatives seem little interested in exploring the political orientation of engineering professors or biogeneticists. The more important the field, in terms of money, resources and political clout, the less conservatives seem exercised by it. At many universities the medical and science buildings, to say nothing of the business faculties or the sports complexes, tower over the humanities. I teach at UCLA. The history professors are housed in cramped quarters of a decaying Modernist structure. Our classiest facility is a conference room that could pass as generic space in any downtown motel. The English professors inhabit what appears to be an aging elementary school outfitted with minuscule offices. A hop away is a different world. The UCLA Anderson School of Management boasts its own spanking-new buildings, plush seminar rooms, spacious lecture halls with luxurious seats, an "executive dining room" and--gold in California--reserved parking facilities. Conservatives seem unconcerned about the political orientation of the business professors. Shouldn't half be Democrats and at least a few be Trotskyists?