Political correctness run amok
The NY Times editorialized today on radio station WBAI pulling the plug on a broadcast of the recording of late poet Allen Ginsburg reading his poem, “Howl”. Such represented a retreat by WBAI as being...
View ArticleMore Detailed Article on UCONN case
Following is the unedited article that appeared on the National Law Journal Online which was originally publishedin The Connecticut Law Tribune. Although this article is somewhat dated, October 3, it...
View ArticleWorshipping the PC God at the UCONN School of Law
The leave imposed on UCONN law school Professor Birmingham was not based on any formal student complaints, but rather Dean Paul imposed his leave based on students comments he overheard. Such was...
View ArticleProstituting and pimping at the UCONN law school
Last week publicdefender.com had a discussion on the UCONN Professor Robert L. Birmingham case and some of the discussants were or had been law students at UCONN. The dankprofessor was particularly...
View ArticleThong protection for UCONN law students
So the Hartford Courant has editorialized in support of the UCONN Law School’s coerced leave for Professor Robert L. Birmingham. According to the Courant, Birmingham had crossed a line when he...
View ArticleHooking-up and spitting game
In terms of the UCONN thong controversy, the UCONN administration found nothing casual about a nanosecond film clip exposure of a thonged woman in Professor Birmingham’s class. Dean Paul justified...
View ArticleFrom campus rape to a Laura Bush candidacy for president
One of the cardinal tenets of the feminist movement to ban student professor relationships is that differential power precludes consent. So in this framework a charge that a relationship that is...
View ArticleUpdate on Professor Robert L. Birmingham and his suspension by the UCONN law...
Many thanks to the UCONN law student who emailed me the most recent copy of the UCONN law student publication PRO SE. This October issue of Pro Se has three articles on the Professor Birmingham...
View ArticleThe love that dare not speak its name
In my prior post on the LA Times being bamboozled by the UC administration as to the number of professors dismissed for violating the UC student professor dating code, such bamboozling can be quite...
View ArticleUpdate on Professor Birmingham and the and the UCONN Law School
The Hartford Courant reported on November 2 that Birmingham would be reinstated as of the Spring semester, but in addition they reported that Birmingham would not be allowed to teach Feminist Legal...
View ArticleImperial Leather launches hugging campaign in the UK
In a previous post I bemoaned the developing taboos re hugging in the workplace and university place. Now as I find via the Hindustan Times that the hugging taboo has become very well developed in the...
View ArticleThe professor as THE sexual outsider
The professor as THE Outsider seduces students and destroys morality as we know it. Of all the treatises I have read on the condemning of student professor relationships this one by Kentucky Youth...
View ArticleCigarette harassment at Yale?
A Yale faculty member who is a professor in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department ”has been accused of sexual harassment, according to a Yale Police Department report filed April 8″....
View ArticleUniversity of Georgia, sexual harassment and Clarence Thomas
The University of Georgia has been the site of a string of sexual harassment cases this past academic year. The UG student newspaper has been diligent in reporting on said cases in detail. Now the...
View ArticleUniversity of Georgia prof defends faculty protest
Janet E. Frick, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Georgia, has written an op ed piece explaining why some UGA faculty signed a petition in opposition to the selection of...
View ArticleUniversity of Georgia president and composer withdraws Clarence Thomas...
Blog readers, I have surreptitiously obtained a pre-release copy of a letter from the renown composer and President of the University of Georgia, John Adams to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas...
View ArticleThe desiccation of university life
It’s about passion- a passion for learning and studying, a passionate search for truth. Such was my vision of the university prior to becoming a professor so many years ago. Such remains my ideal but...
View ArticleFraming Duke University
A Science Blog article, “Framing Technique Can Be Used as a Public Relations Strategy in Cases of Sexual Assault” reports on a new study published in the journal Communication, Culture & Critique....
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