In a grammatically challenged email to her one-time students, Prof. Priya Venkatesan informed them of her intent to sue them for discrimination in the poor teaching evaluations they rudely gave her.
She included this threat: I am also writing a book detailing my experiences as your instructor, which will “name names” so to speak.I have all of your evaluations and these will be reproduced in the book.
Budget cut would be equivalent of wiping out funding for 6,000 students
Arizona State University President Michael Crow is resorting to intimidation, stating that the state’s largest university may have to limit enrollment if Arizona’s legislature imposes a10 percent cut this fall.
Crow said a 10 percent cut to the university’s budget, or $50 million, would be the equivalent of wiping out funding for 6,000 students. University officials are considering enrollment limits as one option for dealing with the loss of revenue.
“That’s not an option we want,” Crow warned.
Implicit in the threat he suggested that officials have not yet determined how much they would have to limit enrollment if the cuts occurred.
The move would be a sharp departure from ASU’s policy, which is to admit every student who meets the university’s academic qualifications, according to the daily.
Seeing Red AZ is indeed Seeing Red on this menacing tactic of Crow’s. But, we also have a suggestion or two to rein in the budget cuts:
2. Defund the programs, (so beloved by the open border advocates at the Arizona Republic) Crow has put in place to provide scholarships for illegal aliens at the state university.
Those two efforts alone might loosen up enough cash for King Crow to manage. Since all other government agencies are belt-tightening in the wake of Gov. Napolitano’s budget crisis, why does Crow caw that he should be exempt by threatening Arizona’s students?
“Art has to stop being something hanging on the wall, it has to be lived…breathed …everyday”
“I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity,” Yale undergraduate art student Aliza Shvarts said. “I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”
Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce abortions. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of the abortions of her own babies as well as preserved collections of blood from the process.
Yale Daily News reports that Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-abortion group, said they were not previously aware of Schvarts’ project, but student Alice Buttrick, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.
Hat tip to Moonbattery for the original video, now inaccessable.
Update: Yale University is now saying that the student art exhibit purporting to show abortions is a hoax.
Perhaps. Or maybe they heard from enough infuriated parents and alumni, threatening to cut of the money spigot, that they decided it better be a prank.
Christina Novak, the head of Scottsdale Community College’s music department has directed her professors not to speak with Maricopa County Sheriff’s detectives investigating enrollment fraud unless they have a court order.
Novak, who declined to comment on the advice of her lawyer, emailed music faculty members, telling them that the attorney representing full-time professors throughout the Maricopa County Community College District advised against voluntarily cooperating with the criminal investigation.
The sheriff’s investigation began in January 2007 with raids at MCCCD headquarters and several campuses. Deputies seized boxes of records and numerous pieces of equipment, including desktop computers from Chancellor Rufus Glasper and some college presidents.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio wouldn’t give details of the investigation on Monday but said detectives haven’t noticed any significant resistance from faculty, as far has he knows.
The East Valley Tribune article is available here.
‘Hand orgies,’ condom races, coming soon to a college campus near you
Planned Parenthood Arizona is touring college campuses throughout the state, allegedly to raise awareness about sexually transmitted diseases.
But, get this—the tour includes an information booth, complete with condom races to demonstrate how to properly put on a condom, and “hand orgies” demonstrating how condoms and lubricant work together.
We couldn’t make this up. Sadly, it was actually reported in the East Valley Tribune.
American Second graders taught Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish
Tucson Unified School District’s Gale Elementary School has a novel way of instructing second-graders in the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Teacher Anne Lee has the tykes say the pledge in three languages: English, Spanish and American Sign Language.
As expected, not all parents are pleased, as evidenced here.
This is the response one parent received from the principal:
Thank you for your interest in public education, Tucson Unified School District and Gale Elementary School.
Paula Godfrey
Principal
Gale Elementary School
World Net Daily carried this story when it first broke. Although Capistrano Unified School District dismissed complaints by parents and students, U.S. District Court Judge James Selna has ruled that Sophomore honors student Chad Farnan’s case can go forward.
The teacher, James Corbett, met his match when Chad recorded some of his inappropriate and bigoted rants.
Here is the account as carried in the Orange Country Register. The case is expected to be heard this month.
Catholic college slammed for hosting pro-abortion Hillary
Pennsylvania pro-life advocates are jeering Catholic Mercyhurst College for agreeing to host a rally for pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today. The college could be making itself a target of a speech Pope Benedict XVI plans to give about upholding Catholic values when he comes to the United States this month, Life News reports.
This is not the first time a Catholic college has given one of the pro-abortion candidates a platform to promote themselves.
Villanova University hosted Michelle Obama last month. In January, Senator Obama appeared at a huge rally on the campus on Saint Peter’s College, a Jesuit institution in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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