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Skip to comments.Academic Witch-Hunt (This time, it's a "racist" professor at Southern Illinois University)
Posted on 05/01/2005 9:13:47 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
On April 11, Jonathan Bean, a professor of history at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), received the colleges Outstanding Teacher Award. But just two days later, Bean became the scourge of the campus, abandoned by teaching assistants and vilified as a purveyor of racist propaganda.
Behind Beans sudden fall from admired academic to campus Enemy Number One was a cabal of eight radical academics in the SIUC history department. Bean's offense was to have assigned as optional reading for his history class a 2001 Frontpagemag report titled Remembering the Zebra Killings by James Lubinskas. The class topic was Civil Rights and Civil Disorder. Bean's required readings for the class included the writings of Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Ella Baker, and Ma href="http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1516">Stokely Carmichael.
The offending Frontpagemag article which Bean made optional recounts what have come to be known as the Zebra Killings, a series of murders that took place in the San Francisco Bay area between 1972 and 1974, which left 71 people dead. The crimes shared a distinctive pattern: all the victims were white. The article, which contains facts first exposed in the 1979 book Zebra by crime writer Clark Howard, and subsequent reviews of the book in Time Magazine, reveals that five members the Death Angels, a sub-group of the Nation of Islam, carried out the majority of the attacks.
For the offense of making students aware of the existence of this article and these killings, the history department witch-hunters demanded Bean's head. Faced with this vicious, career threatening onslaught, Bean took the same course that Larry Summers had at Harvard, in attempting to defuse similar thought-control attacks by issuing an unwarranted apology to anyone to whom the reference to such an article might give offense.
The witch-hunters thirst for vengeance was hardly slaked by this gesture and the attacks by the history department radicals continued unabated. Led by Marxist professor Robbie Lieberman, Beans antagonists were determined to bring down Bean. Bean is a well-known campus libertarian and the only Republican professor of history at Southern Illinois University. The smear campaign against Bean represents only one battle in a larger ideological war raging inside the school. By denouncing Bean, leftists at SIUC hope to purge the last remaining dissident in the department so they can carry out their totalitarian agendas unchallenged by even a single politically incorrect voice.
The ferocity of the crusade against Bean was breathtaking. On April 11, an open letter denouncing Bean appeared in the op-ed section of the Daily Egyptian. Normally intra faculty grievances are aired in committee, not in the pages of the school newspaper. Bean was charged with downloading the article from a site containing links to racially charged and anti-Semitic Web sites -- two blatant lies -- and abridging it in a way that disguised its full context. Signed by professors Kay J. Carr, Germaine Etienne, Mary McGuire, Rachel Stocking, Natasha Zaretsky, and Robbie Lieberman, the letter expressed the professors disgust with the article that was distributed in a core curriculum American history course. Not satisfied with this auto da fe, the same professors placed an advertisement in the Daily Egyptian repeating their charges that the reference to the article (and the act of referring it) was racism.
The evidence for this racism was guilt by association -- a link, contained in the original article to the European American Issues Forum (EAIF), a group headed by Lou Calabro, a street patrol sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department at the time of the crimes. The SIUCC faculty members attacking Bean claim that he removed the paragraph containing a link to the EAIF, a civil rights organization dedicated to the eradication of discrimination and defamation of European Americans, which they assert is anti-Semitic and racist. Indeed, according to Rachel Stocking, one of the history professors who signed the letter, This article is basically white supremacist propaganda. Since the facts in the article were true, the meaning of her charge is that to draw attention to black racists is itself racist -- a perfect expression of the Orwellian mindset exhibited by Bean's attackers. Yet, as Bean has repeatedly (and superfluously) noted, he removed the paragraph not because he wanted to obscure its alleged racist bias but because he wanted to save space and because it wasnt relevant to the historical aspect of crimes.
Bean has admitted to no wrongdoing. Nevertheless, in a misguided effort to appease his attackers and mute the controversy sparked by the article, he has extended his apologies to the entire Southern Illinois University community in a written apology published in the SIUC student newspaper on April 12. As though anyone should need to apologize for making students aware of an article on a subject of interest in a university setting.
Bean's chief prosecutor, professor Robbie Lieberman has portrayed her own efforts to defame Beans reputation as a struggle for campus decencyEverybody should bring up controversial topics. But you have to do it in a responsible way, she said without getting too explicit about what would qualify as "responsible" in an article in the student newspaper.
Robbie Lieberman is a Marxist ideologue, who has taught courses in the Cold War United States, and American Radicalism, and has written a tract called My Song Is My Weapon: People's Songs, American Communism, and the Politics of Culture, 1930-1950, which liberal historian Theodore Draper described as part of the curious academic campaign for the rehabilitation of American Communism.
The daughter of Communist folksingers, Lieberman has had a long affinity for Marxism, Communism and folk music; when singer, songwriter, and Communist Party hack Pete Seeger visited the SIUC campus four days before 9/11, Lieberman remarked, Seeger should be regarded as an important figure in American history, not just as a prolific songwriter, but as a social critic. Lieberman has also written such books as The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anti-Communism and the American Peace Movement, 1945-1963, and Prairie Power: Voices of 1960s Midwestern Student Protest. So overt is her political preaching that conservative students at SIUC routinely refer to her as Robbie the Red.
Lieberman's lifetime in the radical left made her an inevitable activist in the oppostion to America's War on Terror after 9/11. She was a speaker at an anti-war Teach-in in 2002, prior to the start of the Iraq War, where speakers drew alleged parallels between the current threat for war and the Vietnam War and involvement in the peace movement. Lieberman is also a member of the Speakers Bureau of Historians Against the War an organization of radical professors of history opposed to American "imperialism" in Iraq and alleged repression at home. Historians Against the War which works closely with the pro-Castro Center for Constitutional Rights and is a member of the equally left Coalition United for Peace and Justice has developed a nationwide "virtual speakers bureau" of members prepared to disseminate the group's anti-American message to college audiences in an effort to derail what it calls the current empire-building and war-making activities of the United States government at home and abroad. Historians Against The War has also conducted developed special curricula for students at all college levels designed to indoctrinate students in their Marxist world view.
A specialist in war and peace, social movements, and culture, Lieberman came to the defense of SIUC student Marc Torney, who was arrested in 2003 for disobedience and for failure to comply with campus police officers following his on-campus actions in protest of the Iraq War. Defending Torney in an open letter to university administrators, Lieberman posed as a free-speech advocate: Freedom of speech and assembly are fundamental rights guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution. While we recognize the administration's right and responsibility to protect critical functions of the University from serious disruption, any limits on free speech must reflect the mission and goals of the institution. Institutions of higher education should do everything possible to ensure their policies do not impose unnecessary and stifling limits on student speech and expression.
To judge by her lifelong commitment to totalitarian causes and her current efforts to silence Professor Bean, Liebermans professed dedication to free speech and academic freedom is somewhat onesided, and seems to apply only to individuals opposing the society that guarantees these freedoms and denouncing it as a repressive and aggressive state. Liebermans hostility to Bean probably has less to do with the Zebra Killings article than it does with the fact that he is the only conservative professor in her department. A sponsor of the Universitys Young Republicans student group, Bean was instrumental in bringing David Horowitz to speak at the university in 1998.
One of the many leftist professors outraged by Horowitzs talk was Robbie Lieberman. Following Horowitzs visit, Lieberman published an op-ed article titled Recent speaker's comments seem questionable. In the article, Lieberman defended communism, and condemned Horowitz assessment that universities today lack academic freedom. Lieberman wrote:
Two points of [Horowitzs] rather unfocused talk I found particularly offensive and misleading. One was his characterization of the Old Left (American Communists) as being an un-American conspiracy that posed a threat to the United States... In fact, most American Communists loved their country and worked to improve it. They did not commit espionage, they promoted labor, civil rights and the abolition of poverty it still seems clear to me that anti-Communists posed a greater threat to American democracy than did the Communists The second point that was hard to take was the way in which Horowitz caricatured university professors today. Supposedly we are all leftists who deprive our students of a balanced view of the issues, grade them on their politics rather than the quality of their work and intimidate them so much that they dare not express a conservative point of view Although it may be true that many faculty are more to the left than their students today, we do maintain a vision of education that includes: opening people's minds to new ideas and teaching them to read, think and write critically and encouraging them to reach their own conclusions. I dare say that is a very different view of education than the one David Horowitz demonstrated for us.
It is difficult to see how Liebermans determined efforts to brand Bean as a racist for referring students to the existence of an article she doesn't like comports with her interest in letting students reach their own conclusions. But Lieberman is hardly the only radical SIUC professor to apply the standards of academic freedom selectively.
One of Lieberman's colleagues in the anti-Bean lynch party is Rachel Stocking, also a member of Historians Against the War, who called the Frontpagemag article blatant propaganda. To be sure, Stocking knows something about propaganda. She was a signatory to an anti-war screed published the day after the 9/11 attacks and titled, Build Peace and Justice: Resist Calls for Collective Punishment:
We oppose any military strike by the U.S. government that might result in civilian casualties here and abroad; we believe that sacrificing more lives in blind retaliation is not only unjust but also counterproductive.
The letter was written by The Committee for Justice in Palestine, an Ohio State University anti-Israel activist group, that supports Palestinian terrorists. In addition to Stocking, other signatories included: former recruiter for the Communist Party, Stan Goff; Al-Awda/Palestine Right to Return Coalition, an organization whose demands would destroy the State of Israel and which has promoted the terrorist group Hamas; the Hamas-spinoff which poses as a civil liberties group -- The Council on the American-Islamic Relations, Ohio Chapter, and the Young Communist League Columbus Chapter. Stocking is also a supporter of convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Still another SIUC professor who signed the letter denouncing Bean is Natasha Zaretsky. Like Robbie Lieberman, Zaretsky springs from radical stock: she is the daughter of the New Left Marxist Eli Zaretsky, who is a professor at the Nwew School of Social Research in New York. Natasha was quoted in the New York Times saying, Capitalism by itself produces only greed and exploitation. The great successes of the modern epoch are due to social movements like populism, progressivism, new deal liberalism, socialism, feminism, movements for racial equality and even Communism. Both Natasha and her father were also signatories to public statements denouncing the Iraq war.
So how have university administrators responded to the assaults on Professor Beans academic freedom? As reported by student writer Moustafa Ayad, they have sided with the Communist witch-hunters who have defamed Bean. Shirley Clay Scott, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, sent Bean a letter chastising him for failing to understand appropriate parameters of discussion. (Meanwhile the American Association of University Professors is busy attacking David Horowitz's Academic Bill of Rights as an attempt to "restrict" professorial speech!) Scott then used her authority to cancel Bean's discussion sections for the week and told his teaching assistants they did not have to continue teaching the course for the rest of the semester. Two of Beans three graduate teaching assistants have subsequently resigned their posts. Marjorie Morgan, head of the history department, has poured her own fuel on the flames by calling Bean insensitive.
A number of individuals have come to Beans aid. Renowned photographer D. Gorton, a former employee of the New York Times, wrote in SIUCs student newspaper, I firmly believe that Professor Bean's real sin is that he is a Republican in a department that is wholly controlled by leftists and Democrats. There is no diversity of academic opinion, which breeds, in turn, the intolerance contained in this effort to smear Professor Bean I would urge my community, including lawmakers, to take special notice of this attempt at character assassination. The stench from the innuendo and intimations of racism on the part of Professor Bean is nauseating.
Several professors have also refused to toe the radical line on Bean. Jane Adams, professor of anthropology at SIUC, has come out in defense of Bean. Adams, who assisted in voter registration in Black communities in the 60s-era South, has noted that, This [attack on Bean] puts an ax at the root of academic freedom and the freedom of inquiry. Meanwhile, Joan Friedenberg, a linguistics professor at the university, has stepped forward to reproach the faculty members out to ruin Beans reputation. Acknowledging that she does not share Beans politics, Friedenberg has nevertheless condemned the attacks on Bean as a classic case of mobbing.
Perhaps Beans most unlikely ally has been the local chapter of the ACLU. The ACLU has even taken measures to represent Bean in legal proceedings: Leonard Gross, an SIUC law school professor and ACLU lawyer, is serving as Bean's counsel. The American Association of University Professors, on the other hand, is silent.
Beans staunchest defenders, however, have been his students. During his first class after the eruption of the radical witch-hunt, Bean announced, I had two direct ancestors hung as witches at Salem. I don't plan to be the third. The remark earned him a standing ovation from 270 of his students. Some students have also taken to the pages of the campus newspaper to voice their support for Bean. For instance, in an April 20 letter to the Daily Egyptian, Bethany C. Peters, a SIUC senior and history major, writes:
I had [Bean] as a professor for History 392 last semester. My class, which was diverse, never had any problems with Dr. Bean being racist or requiring propagandist literature. As my professor and advisor, I have had only positive experiences with him and find that he is a wonderful professor, who went out of his way to help any and all students to succeed at SIUC.
Peters goes on to write:
I would also challenge each of those professors [who have defamed Bean] to examine their own literature and see exactly what stances and images are being professed and created. If it is not acceptable for Dr. Bean to push an agenda (which he DOES not), then perhaps they also should refrain from handing out materials that include an agenda, be it racist, liberal, inappropriate in regards to religion.
While maintaining that he did nothing wrong in using the Frontpagemag article, Bean has expressed his regret about the controversy that it has unleashed. It was not my intent to inflame or deceive but rather to bring up an event that occurred, he has said.
The same cannot be said of Robbie Lieberman and her radical confederates in the history department. In seizing on the article to stigmatize a colleague for politically incorrect ideas, they have demonstrated that the academic witch-hunt is alive and well at SIUC.
These six SIU history professors signed it: Kay J. Carr
Germaine Etienne
Robbie Lieberman
Mary McGuire
Rachel Stocking
Natasha Zaretsky
This is a long, but very worthwhile read.
so much for freedom of speech,tolerance and understanding
I've not heard of the Zebra Killings, till now. Thanks for posting the article. The Professor should have stood his ground. That's conservatives problems now days, they are brow beaten into submission.
The Zebra Killings reading that so offended the leftists in the SIU history deppartment was optional. I just had to reiterate that for everyone!
Gets even better:
CARBONDALE - Southern Illinois University Carbondale history Professor Jonathan Bean isn't comfortable speaking candidly until the heavy yellow door to his Faner Hall office fully closes.
Inside the modest office - which features a view of the stone gray, window-lined back section of Faner - Bean attempts to begin his story, when the phone rings.
He picks up.
After a few seconds of listening with the phone receiver to his ear, he says, "Hey, listen, can I call you back later? It's been kind of a hectic two weeks, and I can't even begin to explain it to you right now."
A few more moments of silence follow.
"OK, bye," he says and hangs up the phone.
Bean looks again to the door, which is shut and locked to all those outside.
"I used to be an open-door professor," he said, describing the way students used to pop in and out of his office almost at will.
All of it has come to a sudden stop.
A Post-It note near the door handle reads, "Please knock," in Bean's handwriting. Above the note sits a taped slip of paper with the Hebrew name Shemtov Bean. The literal translation of Shemtov is "good name," something Bean says has been stolen from him by some of his fellow faculty members in the history department.
Handout hysteria
Bean's History 110: 20th Century America class, an SIUC core curriculum course of roughly 270 students, studied the usual litany of readings by Rosa Parks, Malcom X and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for its section on the Civil Rights era at the beginning of April.
Bean also distributed what he said were additional, optional reading handouts through his three graduate assistants assigned to the course. Among those papers was an abridged article from James Lubinskas of FrontPageMagazine.com titled, "Remembering the Zebra Killings," which recounted a series of 71 murders perpetrated by a group of black men against white civilians in San Francisco between 1972
and 1974. FrontPageMagazine.com also hosts writer David Horowitz, who visited SIUC last year on the subject of academic freedom at universities.
Bean had pulled the article from the FrontPageMagazine.com Web site and thought it would be material students could possibly go over in the course discussion sections.
At that point, Bean said, the wheels began to turn.
"It sparked what I called "handout hysteria," he said. "I handed it out on Tuesday. On Friday afternoon I'm called into the department chair's office, with a hysterical department chair waving the handout at me."
Bean said at that point he wasn't sure what had caused the problem.
"What I took away from it, the concern was about sensitivity," he said.
History Department Chair Marjorie Morgan declined to make any on-record comments about the exchange and said she might issue a written statement later on the situation. Morgan is leaving SIUC at the end of the semester.
College of Liberal Arts Dean Shirley Clay Scott, who oversees the History Department, said two of Bean's three History 110 graduate assistants, both of whom are black, complained the Lubinskas article alluded to racist material.
Scott said she reassigned the two black graduate students to other courses, because they felt uncomfortable continuing with Bean.
The full Lubinskas article, as it appears on FrontPageMagazine.com, contains a link to the European American Issues Forum, an Internet site, devoted to the matters and heritage of European-Americans in the U.S. Lubinskas mentions the EAIF in the story because the group leaders have pledged to ensure the individuals convicted in the Zebra killings spend life in prison.
Bean edited out the passage that mentions the EAIF in his handout for brevity's sake, he said.
A new McCarthyism?
Bean said he sent an e-mail apology, by request, to the department chair, the dean, history faculty and graduate students immediately after learning the article created a controversy. He also e-mailed his students, telling them to disregard the Lubinskas article.
That weekend, April 9 and 10, Bean received the university's Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award for his department and was honored with a plaque.
When he returned to work the next Monday, however, Bean was notified the dean had dropped two of his teaching assistants and that eight fellow history professors had written a letter to be published in the campus newspaper trying to distance themselves from what they said was a practice of distributing racist propaganda to students.
Bean said he began to suspect something bigger was afoot. Then, he began to examine where exactly he stood in the picture of the history department at SIUC.
"I am a lone libertarian-conservative on a campus that lacks ideological diversity," Bean said he concluded.
Bean contends 90 percent of all liberal arts faculty are Democrats by past primary election voting records. He is traditionally known to be more conservative, although he admits he did not vote Republican in the last two presidential elections.
Bean said he suspects he is an ideological underdog in a department rife with liberal viewpoints, and he now suspects the incident surrounding the Lubinskas article is a cover for a new practice of departmental McCarthyism by some history professors.
"McCarthyism is keeping the victim in the dark, forcing apologies based on hysterics, and then not accepting the apology," Bean said.
Bean said he was never given a clear explanation as to what needed an apology. Even though he agreed to cancel the Lubinskas handout, he said several faculty members still publicly chided his perceived practices.
The letter the eight faculty members wrote didn't specifically name Bean as the subject.
Tenured history professor Robbie Lieberman was one of the faculty members to issue the letter. She said Bean has been combative with colleagues on the subject of the handout from the beginning and has made what she said are unfounded claims of a witch hunt and McCarthyism against those who criticized him.
"I know what McCarthyism is," Lieberman said. "I teach McCarthyism. It's absurd; there are no elements of it in this."
Lieberman said no one is attacking Bean's views or even his right to discuss controversial topics in class. The main problem, she said, with Bean's handout is it came from an Internet source that had questionable ties.
Using the Internet as a source of material in the history department is generally frowned upon, Lieberman said, because its validity is not always certain.
"I don't personally let students with research papers get things off the Internet," she said.
Lieberman said the situation surrounding Bean is an example why department officials don't often distribute Internet sources for class readings.
Liberal arts dean Scott said there is nothing sinister about her actions with Bean.
"I'm certainly not out to get him," Scott said. "I was the one who recommended he become a full professor a few years back."
As far as fellow faculty publicly chastising Bean's alleged motivations, Scott said a letter in the student newspaper probably wasn't the best outlet to voice inter-departmental concerns.
"If they had asked me about it, I would probably have told them not to do it," she said. "But they didn't ask me."
Defending a good name
Bean contends the faculty members, the history department chair and the liberal arts dean have all rushed to a judgment that has both hurt his reputation and disrupted the students in his History 110 course.
Bean sits in his Faner Hall office, behind the security of the thick, yellow closed door and points out his believed dissenters sit in offices all around him.
The tension is tangible in the third floor hallway that houses most history faculty at SIUC. Up to this point, Bean said, he has been passive.
"My name, my family's potential livelihood, my students and my career are under attack," said the 42-year-old professor, a father of two young children. "My wife and I talked about how to respond to this. She quoted me the passage in the Bible about turning the other cheek."
Bean says he felt he turned the other cheek by apologizing and by withdrawing the article with little more said. The onslaught from those in his own department, he claims, keeps coming.
Bean said his defenses, and his family's, are starting to wear down.
"My wife, Alice, broke down crying when another newspaper reporter contacted her last week," he said. "She had an apparent panic attack."
Bean has documentation of everything that has been said, publicly and privately, on record and is keeping it in a file.
By all indications, Bean looks like a man ready to take legal action, a point he was at first hesitant to make but eventually admitted.
"I am speaking with local and national legal counsel to defend my good name," Bean said.
Jane Adams, an anthropology professor and personal witness to the effects of the Zebra killings mentioned in the Lubinskas article, said the matter goes beyond Bean's academic freedom as a professor to discuss controversial material.
"He didn't get due process," Adams said.
She said the university has channels through which these kinds of questions flow. They were not used in this case, she said, and it should disturb all campus professors who could find themselves in a similar case.
"I don't think there is any one of us who haven't been accused of something at one time or another," Adams said.
Adams said in her 18 years on campus, however, she has never seen almost a whole department turn on one of its own faculty members, as she said is being done in the case with Bean.
"I think this is a really serious breach of collegiality," Adams said. "One of the things I am appalled by is his (Bean's) reputation has been publicly smeared. That is all we have as professors."
Bean said he the article might have been a poor choice in retrospect. He said he took the criticism and pulled the article from class. The problem is, Bean said, is he doesn't really know whether he stopped the handout for academic prudence or for reasons of sensitivity.
He is getting mixed messages, he said, and doesn't know exactly what will happen next.
"This is hell, because I've basically had to watch my back," Bean said.
Strange Days Indeed.
During the early 1970s until 1974, anywhere from 14 to 270 murders of whites were carried out up and down the California coast by approximately 15 members of the Black Muslims, who are now known as the Nation of Islam. The murders became known as the "Zebra Killings" because police working the case used frequency "Z."50 posted on 10/26/2002 4:45:45 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
As Clark Howard chronicled in his book, Zebra: The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco, the killers received help from fellow Black Muslims, and the Black Muslims paid the legal fees of all of the arrestees except for Harris. There would otherwise have been no way for them to elude capture. Two of the reasons contributing to the Zebra killers' success were the authorities' political cowardice in covering-up their knowledge of organized racial, mass murder, and their refusal to keep houses of worship under surveillance (sound familiar?).
Looks like everyone is vexed..I don't think the Zebra killings were ever solved, but I guess there is a lot of conjecture. Does SF have a grassy knoll?
Here are email addresses for the SIU history professors who signed the offensive letter:
Kay J. Carr firstname.lastname@example.com
Germaine Etienne firstname.lastname@example.com
Robbie Lieberman email@example.com
Mary McGuire email@example.com
Rachel Stocking firstname.lastname@example.com
Natasha Zaretsky firstname.lastname@example.com
"Bean was charged with downloading the article from a site containing links to racially charged and anti-Semitic Web sites"
And the academic Left's pet Palestinian sites just lurve the Jews.
I think you're referring to the Zodiac killings. The Zebra killers--most of them, at least--were caught and brought, sort of, to justice.
al fuqra bump
I could be confusing the two. Both were awhile back..
Some of the Zebra killings were solved and four men went to jail for life behind the murders.
Just a sidenote-all of them had long criminal hisories of violence,mostly against OTHER BLACKS.
They used the "white devil"angle as a cover for their psychopathologies.
No, it's the new collegiality.
If they were all NOI, why can't the RICO Act be used against Calypso Louie?
Why write when you can speak directly to the source?
Kay J. Carr email@example.com - 618-453-7877
Germaine Etienne firstname.lastname@example.com - 618-453-4391
Robbie Lieberman email@example.com - 618-453-4391
Mary McGuire email@example.com - 618-453-5242
Rachel Stocking firstname.lastname@example.com - 618-453-7875
Natasha Zaretsky firstname.lastname@example.com - 618-536-2233
he can either sue every one of his accusers for slander and stand up for himslef and explain how its a great thingto teach history in a school setting and point out the ideology of everyone of his accusers and go on the offencive with as much zeal as they are or like every other spineless coward with an r by his name he can bend over for every one of them and then say thank you sir may I please have another and die the thousands deaths of the coward.if he chooses that route he deserves whatever happens to him from now on
Thanks to both of you for the email info.
Support David Horowitz in his Academic Bill of Rights LEGISLATION campaign. I suggested this to the webmaster here at FR under the title: FReep Academia.
Here's a few exerpts from the link above:
When I first floated the idea of my Academic Bill of Rights in Colorado, for example, one of my first stops was to meet with Elizabeth Hoffman, then president of the University of Colorado. President Hoffman was very cordial, but told me there was no problem of missing intellectual diversity at her university and besides its official academic freedom regulations already contained all the protections I was proposing.
Previously, the arguments made by defenders of the status quo were pretty much exhausted by Elizabeth Hoffmans two points: We have no problem, and even if we did, the protections youre proposing are already in place in our own regulations.
Hoffman was to learn the hard way that she actually did have a problem when the public controversy generated over the Ward Churchill affair led to the termination of her job. I had warned her when we met that the monolithic character of her faculty was a scandal waiting to happen. The lack of intellectual diversity on college faculties has produced a new phenomenon in American academic life: the presence of tenured extremists on faculties, and not only at some universities, but at virtually every one.
Moreover, virtually all of these academic freedom provisions are formulated as faculty rights or faculty responsibilities. Virtually none codify rights that apply specifically to students.
Armstrong referred to a biology class at a campus in the Pennsylvania State University system that was entirely taken up with a showing of Farenheit 9/11, Michael Moores propaganda film against the Bush Administration. The film was shown to students during the presidential election campaign of 2004. The biology professors agenda in showing the film obviously had nothing to do with biology and was clearly political.
This is why we need a "Latest News On..." AMERICA'S EDUCATION CRISIS link above all the posts like the other "Latest News On..." links.
Thanks for putting up the numbers.
Robbie Lieberman
Somehow we need to stand up against thought control Stalinists like Robbie Lieberman.
ping for later reading
has that pic been photoshopped lol :-)
And, I'm sure the author meant nothing by naming this piece: Academic Witch-Hunt.
Good post. Frightening, though.
Man! That broad fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down!
Robbie's parents were communist folk singers, acc. to the author. Makes me think the photo is genuine!!!
I hadn't ever heard of the Zebra killings.
Thanks for posting this.
Is that Geddy Lee?
Start by asking if she thinks herself morally superior and by what standard.
Jon Bean is a fine guy. I wrote him his rec for tenure at SIU.
Her actions already have established that.
Established her moral authority? I think not, but thats my opinion and I'm not one for tolerating such venal tripe from fools as this tenured tramp. Its too bad that conservatives grant fools like this a pass in the moral authority and then try and chip away at the branches of leftist evil.
Anyway liberalism is all about the vanity of the bearer.
No. I went to SIUC. That's what she looks like. Moreover, she's about 5 feet tall and 90 lbs soaking wet.
Geddy Lee is taller. So FRiends, scratch those "Robbie the Red" Lieberman and Geddy Lee are the same person rumors now!
You might want to check out whether Illinois law provides for a cause of action for invasion of privacy before posting the phone numbers of (and encouraging) people to call those professors.
The numbers were available on a publically accessable directory. You could add it to your Email client if you wish.
Don't know why this thread from '05 appeared but i'll give it a ten years ago bump to the top.
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I've been directing a community theatre production for a month and a half now. We opened up this past Thursday.
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San Francisco 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman was voted the 61st-best player in the NFL by his peers on "Top 100 Players of 2016."
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Astronomers identified the remains of the water-rich, rocky asteroid orbiting a dying star, known as a white dwarf, which lies 150 light years from Earth.
The discovery marks the first reliable evidence of two key components for habitable planets – water and a rocky surface – existing on the same planetary body outside our system.
Although previous studies have identified water outside our solar system, they have done so in so-called "gas giants" rather than rocky planets like our own.
The study suggests that before the star, known as GD 61, became exhausted it could potentially have been the centre of a planetary system with Earthlike planets capable of supporting life, experts explained.
The system could be a window on what our solar system will look like six billion years from now, they added. Aliens could study the rocky remains around our burnt-out Sun and conclude that it once supported life.
While the majority of Earth's surface is covered with water, the oceans only account for 0.02 per cent of its total mass, suggesting that they came into being after the planet was formed.
The most popular theory among astronomers is that water was brought to Earth by an asteroid, the building blocks from which rocky planets gradually grow.
The new asteroid, described in the Science journal, is composed of about 26 per cent water, a very similar level to Ceres, the largest asteroid in the main belt of our Solar System.
Dr Jay Farihi of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University, who led the study, said: "The finding of water in a large asteroid means the building blocks of habitable planets existed – and maybe still exist – in the GD 61 system, and likely also around substantial number of similar parent stars.
"These water-rich building blocks, and the terrestrial planets they build, may in fact be common – a system cannot create things as big as asteroids and avoid building planets, and GD 61 had the ingredients to deliver lots of water to their surfaces.
"Our results demonstrate that there was definitely potential for habitable planets in this exoplanetary system."
Astronomers frequently measure the size and density of planets outside our solar system, but to analyse what they are made of is much rarer because most studies focus on those orbiting living stars.
When stars die, their enormous gravitational pull breaks planets apart and sucks them in piece by piece, meaning scientists can learn what they were made from by analysing the debris in their atmosphere.
The team identified elements including magnesium, silicon and iron which, along with oxygen, are the core components of rocks in the atmosphere around GD61, which began to dwindle 200 million years ago.
But the oxygen levels they identified were far greater relative to the other minerals than would be expected if only rock had been present, suggesting that the rest had been contained either in water or carbon.
Almost no carbon whatsoever was found in the star's atmosphere, signifying that large amounts of water must once have been present.
Prof Boris Gänsicke of the University of Warwick, co-author of the study, explained: "This also rules out comets, which are rich in both water and carbon compounds.
"So we knew we were looking at a rocky asteroid with substantial water content, perhaps in the form of subsurface ice, like the asteroids we know in our solar system such as Ceres."
An even larger planet would have been needed to dislodge the planet in question from its orbit and allow it to be broken apart, meaning it is likely that some giant exoplanets are still present in the waning solar system, the researchers added.
"In order for the asteroids to pass sufficiently close to the white dwarf to be shredded, then eaten, they must perturbed from the asteroid belt – essentially pushed – by a massive object like a giant planet," Dr Farhi said.
"These asteroids tell us that the GD 61 system had – or still has – rocky, terrestrial planets, and the way they pollute the white dwarf tells us that giant planets probably still exist there.
"This supports the idea that the star originally had a full complement of terrestrial planets, and probably gas giant planets, orbiting it – a complex system similar to our own."


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Quest Wagga Wagga features an outdoor pool and a fitness center. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. Business-related amenities at this 4.5-star property consist of a business center and a meeting room.
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Bright and cosy studio with a double convertible sofa
Ujezd 5 residence
The stairway in Ujezd 5
The main entrance to Ujezd 5
Petrin park with magnificent view. Just next to Ujezd street.
View from Újezd street, 20 minutes walk to Prague Castle
Ujezd street
Mosaic floor in Ujezd 5
Namesti Kinskych (Kinskych square), 5 minutes from Ujezd 5
Fully equipped kitchen corner
View from the window - Petrin hill on the right
floor plan
non-smoking apartment
Pricing Notes:
Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Apartment, Studio bedroom, 1 bath, sleeps 2
$95 - $526 per night
$178 - $600 per week
$758 - $2,200 per month
This advertiser has listed with PerfectPlaces.com since Oct 18, 2007