Professor fired over Va. Tech discussion

[santz]

link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_on_re_us/professor_fired



Professor fired over Va. Tech discussion

"BOSTON - An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow."
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The five-minute demonstration at Emmanuel College on Wednesday, two days after a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus, included a discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public's "celebration of victimhood," said the professor, Nicholas Winset.

During the demonstration, Winset pretended to shoot some students....."

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_on_re_us/professor_fired

 

[jpeyton]

Student Junny Lee, 19, told The Boston Globe that most students didn't appear to find Winset's demonstration offensive.

Sounds like the Catholic liberal arts college overreacted.

 

[DougK62]

Overreaction by the school. Sad.

 

[Phokus]

Originally posted by: DougK62
Overreaction by the school. Sad.

QFT

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Nope, no clue why tenure exists

 

[Vic]

Private school.

 

[tw1164]

He's an accounting professor, what did VA have to do w/ accounting.

 

[Luthien]

He must have also said the words nappy headed ho

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Was the marker even loaded?

 

[91TTZ]

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