Re: Is my CS instructor nuts?
- From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:37:37 +0100
In article <1150207525.592639.256340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx says..
Gerry Quinn wrote:
In article <1149346875.629945.122730@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx says...
Reminds me of:
http://www.thepoorman.net/2006/05/20/this-is-my-truth-tell-me-yours/
Recently, an instructor at Roosevelt University in Chicago was
fired...for allowing students to discuss Zionism in a World Religions
class: see www.rafo.org.
You can't fire someone you haven't hired.
Roosevelt HAD hired Douglas Giles. They then fired him in violation of
their collective bargaining agreement without warning and because of a
good-faith decision he made about teaching his class, a decision which
was Professor Giles to make.
"After the adjunct had requested a class for Spring 2006, he soon
received a letter of non-rehire."
So, he wasn't fired. His services were not required the next semester.
"Zionism" is a World Religion issue: this
is obvious, indeed as obvious as the proposition that in order to teach
applications programming, you have to have an application to program.
Whether Zionism is a world religion issue, and whether it is considered
a suitable subject for a course named World Religion, are no doubt two
interesting though interesting issues, although the logic of your
metaphor completely escapes me.
It appears, however, that the person charged with deciding the latter
on behalf of Roosevelt University felt that it was not so. Perhaps he
wishes to employ an adjunct who will debate the merits of jihad; it
seems more likely, though, that he feels a more anodyne curriculum will
better serve the university's interests.
The website in question obviously gives only one side of the case, so I
would not jump to any strong conclusions.
- Gerry Quinn
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