In today's News-Gazette the IEA is growling once again, and Pat Quinn is de-clawed and in a corner with his tail between his legs on his pension plan that would include cutting down pension amounts for new state workers. Naturally, any plan that puts the well-being of the public before the well-being of the teacher unions has made their hair stand up.
As has been previously posted on this dog blog, the unions were more than happy to put us all in the current mess by contributing unmatched quantities to the Blago boys club. This is particularly ironic when Ed Geppart rhetorically asked the crowd if Quinn was "an improvement?" (This was the same man that Blago personally appointed to the IL Board of Education in 2005).
With thousands of dollars to spare for indicted felons, why do the IFT and IEA insist that we must pay the penalty (and the bill)?
In other union-sponsored teacher statutory rape news, the L.A. Times reports that in addition to wasting away taxpayer-squeezed legal monies, the unions are paying teachers to sit on all fours and do nothing while waiting for misconduct trials and hearings to be resolved.
Posted by Hound No. 4
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Salukis are Suing
The new and "improved" sexual harassment policy at Southern Illinois-Carbondale is being put to the test as a student is suing the Board of Trustees for terminating him after reporting sexual harassment. This represents a new low for the Goldman-Poshard regime, considering its already questionable dedication to due process concerning sexual harassment complaints against two other faculty members. This, in addition to a sexual harassment policy vile enough to bring attention to FIRE, adds on to a sad chapter in SIUC dedication to destroying the rights from First-Amendment on of its faculty and student body. Based upon the current fight the college is entrenched in with faculty unions, the best interpretation seems to point to a scared administration that decided, rather than risk further faculty outrage, to make a sacrifice out of Mr. Milligan.
Nothing new it seems, since another faculty member at the University of Utah was axed ostensibly for "contributing to a hostile environment for female faculty." This professor is also suing. Weak reasoning for the supposed misogyny aside (and female support for the prof in question), one has to wonder, since Prof. Lenowitz teaches Hebrew languages, if there was an ulterior reason for his removal from a middle-east department.
Nor is violating rights at Carbondale a surprise given the rise of fascist policy now in effect there. Case in point-Poshard and Haller seem fit to make it a crime to report plagiarism, especially one as sacrosanct as the university president, against whom could lead to administrative-sanctioned retaliation.
The rest of the country must by now surely view ILLinios as some kind of laughingstock.
Posted by Hound No. 3
Nothing new it seems, since another faculty member at the University of Utah was axed ostensibly for "contributing to a hostile environment for female faculty." This professor is also suing. Weak reasoning for the supposed misogyny aside (and female support for the prof in question), one has to wonder, since Prof. Lenowitz teaches Hebrew languages, if there was an ulterior reason for his removal from a middle-east department.
Nor is violating rights at Carbondale a surprise given the rise of fascist policy now in effect there. Case in point-Poshard and Haller seem fit to make it a crime to report plagiarism, especially one as sacrosanct as the university president, against whom could lead to administrative-sanctioned retaliation.
The rest of the country must by now surely view ILLinios as some kind of laughingstock.
Posted by Hound No. 3
Monday, April 27, 2009
When No. 8 posted that I immediately thought about last year when the UIUC faculty railroaded the Academy on Capitalism and Limited Government. When I found the story, lo and behold, Anne Neal beat us to it already.
As I recall (perhaps others have better recollections) that one of the driving forces behind its demise was professtocracy blowhard James Barrett.
The comments on the page are worth noting. Notice how all the negative responses are coming from those affiliated with universities, while those supportive are tax payers, parents, and others. Funny how the educationalists think that Horowitz is the one out of touch with the mainstream public.
Posted by Hound No. 3
As I recall (perhaps others have better recollections) that one of the driving forces behind its demise was professtocracy blowhard James Barrett.
The comments on the page are worth noting. Notice how all the negative responses are coming from those affiliated with universities, while those supportive are tax payers, parents, and others. Funny how the educationalists think that Horowitz is the one out of touch with the mainstream public.
Posted by Hound No. 3
Funny Money
Due respect to learned colleagues here, who have a far superior pedigree than myself, I wished to point out with respect to some prior posts about endowments and alumni gifts this recent post at the ACTA.
It seems that people are protesting more than the price of tea.
Posted by Hound No. 8
It seems that people are protesting more than the price of tea.
Posted by Hound No. 8
More on Flu caused by Swine
The progenitor of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Hoax spoke at UNC last week to a crowd quotes the Tar Heel of 70 (with Baker at Vanderbuilt and Kim Curtis gone too, that leaves another sixteen unaccounted for). The article states that Crystal Mangum was "given a chance Wednesday to discuss the issues surrounding her accusation."
Oddly enough, the article later stated "...the two refused to speak on the specifics of the case..."
Not that there was to be any discussion in the first place, mind you, since in an earlier release, the DTH stated that all the questions would be screened before hand.
These questions Mangum left before hand and did not answer, according to a previous appointment. Quite a different tale from those who attended who said that she had the flu.
Indeed it is a tough coin toss call as to whether the DTH or Mangum is less credible.
Still its seems that it is the season for the flu and swine to go hand in hand.
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Oddly enough, the article later stated "...the two refused to speak on the specifics of the case..."
Not that there was to be any discussion in the first place, mind you, since in an earlier release, the DTH stated that all the questions would be screened before hand.
These questions Mangum left before hand and did not answer, according to a previous appointment. Quite a different tale from those who attended who said that she had the flu.
Indeed it is a tough coin toss call as to whether the DTH or Mangum is less credible.
Still its seems that it is the season for the flu and swine to go hand in hand.
Posted by Hound No. 2
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Missing Link
Here are some of the events in academia that the DI has decided to ignore this week in favor of hard-hitting news:
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has posted on its website that Amherst has suddenly decided vandalism and censorship no longer adhere to the university's mission. Much like UIUC where its own Senate was happy to vote yes to free-speech suppression, UMASS watched with glee while copies of the conservative paper 'The Minuteman" were stolen, and worse simply for criticizing a member of the student government (which FIRE reported was the very same individual stealing the paper copies). And much like the IL counterpart, it took the veto action of the administration (in the IL case, it was Richard Herman) to stop the resolution. But still like the IL case, the crime had already been committed.
Meanwhile, over at Virginia Tech, where thanks to indifference and incompetence of its administrators, thirty-two students received their Certification of Completion by the undertaker, their new all-but-diverse diversity program has been tabled after being outed as an Orwellian oath to academic groupthink. So far, in fact, that it has prompted a state bill to combat said indoctriversity. Naturally, the Chronicle of Higher Education calls any critic to the AAUP-driven status quo, even FIRE, as "conservative."
Posted by Hound No. 9
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education has posted on its website that Amherst has suddenly decided vandalism and censorship no longer adhere to the university's mission. Much like UIUC where its own Senate was happy to vote yes to free-speech suppression, UMASS watched with glee while copies of the conservative paper 'The Minuteman" were stolen, and worse simply for criticizing a member of the student government (which FIRE reported was the very same individual stealing the paper copies). And much like the IL counterpart, it took the veto action of the administration (in the IL case, it was Richard Herman) to stop the resolution. But still like the IL case, the crime had already been committed.
Meanwhile, over at Virginia Tech, where thanks to indifference and incompetence of its administrators, thirty-two students received their Certification of Completion by the undertaker, their new all-but-diverse diversity program has been tabled after being outed as an Orwellian oath to academic groupthink. So far, in fact, that it has prompted a state bill to combat said indoctriversity. Naturally, the Chronicle of Higher Education calls any critic to the AAUP-driven status quo, even FIRE, as "conservative."
Posted by Hound No. 9
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