The Crack Young Staff are at it again. Here's a petition you'll never see signed by any of my colleagues:
“The Hatemonger’s Quarterly” Official Academics Against Remote Oppression that in No Way Affects Them Manifesto (THMQOAAROTINWATM):
We, the undersigned, are deeply troubled by manifold injustices: Capitalism, democracy, &c. Yet we wish to announce that we are untroubled by various issues that would normally trouble such beacons of “social justice” as ourselves.
We hereby declare that the following things do not in any way bother us:
1. The fact that numerous professors at our universities are offered starvation wages and no health-care. As long as they teach the classes we donÂ’t want to bother with, thatÂ’s fine by us. [ed. Note: Stotch, you reading this?]
2. The fact that our graduate students live in abject poverty. As long as they teach the classes we donÂ’t want to bother with, thatÂ’s fine by us.
3. The fact that our parking spots are far, far better than those held by lowly service employees. Sure, we’re Marxists and all, but we don’t want to take this “fairness” stuff too far.
4. The fact that some students want a balanced liberal arts education, instead of four years of left-wing agitprop. [ed note: don't let the Social Work department get a hold of this!]
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Just like your comments on professional journalism, you are unable to acknowledge that the vast majority of professors approach their jobs with professionalism and the intent to be as objective as possible. I had maybe one professor in my life that tried to brainwash me. And again, we need to have better than a sophomoric understanding of "objectivity" to even begin a discussion about this.
Based on the logic of your post, you indoctrinate your students with right-wing agitprop. I bet you're better than that. I wish you thought the same of the rest of us.
Posted by: Professor Peter Von Nostrand at October 20, 2004 04:26 PM (62QDG)
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Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about, here is a cast of characters who made it into my lectures on the media this none other than one Dr. Rusty Shackleford...
Posted by: Professor Peter Von Nostrand at October 20, 2004 04:33 PM (62QDG)
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Sorry... my comment got cut off... let me try that again... to let you know how objective some of us are willing to be, the following cast of characters made it into my lectures on the media this semester: Bernard Goldberg, Ann Coulter, Eric Alterman, Noam Chomsky, and none other than one Dr. Rusty Shackleford. There.
Posted by: Professor Peter Von Nostrand at October 20, 2004 04:35 PM (62QDG)
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Holy schneike I'm in somebody's lecture!
It's the end of the world, I tells ya!!
We are all doomed! Doomed!! DOOMED!!!!
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at October 20, 2004 05:04 PM (JQjhA)
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A student of mine wrote the following in an essay I'm grading right now: "... the US government should be involved with supplying homes or shelters to the homeless. I would rather know that somebody has a bed and shelter to sleep in than to accidentally trip over them on a sidewalk."
Now, I'm guessing you'll assume that I'd write "Good!" after this comment like a good liberal college professor. Uh, no. More like "You need better justification for this position than that!"
You'd never know it from your post, but it is possible to be objective, Rusty.
Posted by: Professor Peter Von Nostrand at October 20, 2004 05:21 PM (62QDG)
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Well there you have it. Prof Pete has proved you wrong.
And, in other news, Pauline Kael still doesn't know anyone who voted for Nixon.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at October 20, 2004 06:06 PM (4W4+i)
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Rusty, can I have your autograph and say that I read you before you were famous?
Posted by: Dick at October 20, 2004 06:20 PM (hu9UN)
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Should anyone be proud of voting for Nixon?
Posted by: Professor Peter Von Nostrand at October 20, 2004 06:25 PM (62QDG)
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I mighta found this on your website but this seems like a good place to post it: Brainwashing 101. Back when I was an impressionable kid in college, when Reagan was president (hats off, moment of silence...ok) I thought that these college professors must "know" and everything Reagan and his administration did was wrong...the deficit was "crowding out" private investment...all those billions for weapons that will give us no return on our investment...plus, all the PC bullshit on top of that...
Now, as I look back, having made my way in the business world, I realize that those professors are just what I suspected they were: weenie, whiney, pencil-necked dipshits who probably had no idea what real work was...I mean the kind where you sweat and get dirty, and your hours are dark thirty to dark thirty...
but anyway, here it is:
http://academicbias.com/bw101.html
Posted by: Mr. K at October 20, 2004 08:08 PM (G0suo)
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I was recently informed a tenured Marxist that my sessional teaching was about "paying my dues". How does that go? Oh yes, each according to their ability and each according to their need.
Posted by: Ghost of a flea at October 20, 2004 08:15 PM (bhsI/)
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I realize that I'm coming to this party a bit late, but...
Hey Prof., that's kinda like asking if anyone should be proud of voting for Clinton (which I did once and am still ashamed).
I'm just saying...
Posted by: Matt Hurley at October 22, 2004 10:52 AM (vQcWL)
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I'm proud to have voted for Nixon. He got us out of Viet Nam. Remember that one? The liberal weanies Kennedy and Johnson got us into. Bush had the balls to send us into the middle east. But the stage was set by the vulgar young lady molesting Clinton. Clinton the liberal sent our military into more foreign contries than any president in history.
Posted by: greyrooster at October 23, 2004 01:52 PM (CBNGy)
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Hey, I'm one of those un-Tenured, "Starvation Pay', No-Benefit, Part-Timers that 99% of the Universities, Colleges and Community Colleges can't do without. If we didn't offer our time and expertise, most of the teaching that goes on in the "Halls of Higher Learning" wouldn't happen!
Most of the Tenured Docs are too busy chasing their own Leftist agendas to be bothered with anything remotely close to the description of what they were hired for, providing knowledge to the paying students! Anyway that's how it seems to be at the two Instutions that I teach in!
Posted by: large at October 24, 2004 11:15 AM (VRK2g)
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