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Friday, January 05, 2007

Give Me Tenure Or Give Me Death

And we wonder were college kids get their sense of entitlement.

A professor who was denied tenure at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has vowed to start a hunger strike on February 5 outside the provost’s office.

“I will either see the provost resign and my hard-earned tenure granted at MIT, or I will die defiantly right outside his office,” James L. Sherley, who teaches biological engineering, wrote in a letter to colleagues that he provided to Inside Higher Ed. While not commenting directly on Sherley’s claims, MIT issued a statement that he has been treated fairly.

Call me cold, but I say let him starve.

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MMM Jamba Juice and ice cream.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on January 5, 2007 at 07:08 pm

Yeah, I must be cold and heartless… I would bring him yummy food all the time and just place it within eye-sight.

What a ma-roon


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Sphagnum on January 5, 2007 at 07:25 pm

Sherley, he can’t be serious.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on January 5, 2007 at 07:39 pm

Well........ thats just about the most ignorant thing I’ve read in awhile. Personally, I’d sit and watch him all day while having pizza delivery, but the liberals at MIT will probably cave in.

Diogenes - The Cynic of Sinope on January 5, 2007 at 08:43 pm
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We actually had some naked PETA protesters at our circus up in Minot one year.  The girls were pretty good looking too.  I was going to get some McDonald’s and head down there with a lawn chair to enjoy their free expression.

Unfortunately, my work schedule didn’t allow.


When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

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Rob on January 5, 2007 at 08:51 pm

And now naked peta protesters are off limits to you Mr. Family man.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on January 5, 2007 at 08:55 pm

Sense of entitlement? What’s that?

I guess I shouldn’t feel like I’ve earned being a junior in college.

I disagree with this man’s so-called problem with being a minority. He probably got hired *because* he was a minority. Perhaps if he didn’t whine so much he’d get what he wanted. What did he do, sit there and beg for the for minority prizes? We don’t need any “special” minority awards either- I think it’s racist. If we can’t have white minority awards, then they shouldn’t have black minority awards. What a selfish man.

Well, if all you’re going on is that people feel entitled, I guess you wouldn’t mind if I took your salary away from you because I guess you feel entitled to that…

It’s all in the context, but I completely hate people who try to get awards and tenure based on their race.

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Student, nobody is really entitled to anything other than that which you earn.  Too many of you college students come rolling out of university with some generic business degree and expect $75,000 right off the bat.

You’re simply not entitled to that.  You’re entitled to what you can earn in the free market, and nothing more.


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Rob on January 5, 2007 at 08:59 pm

And if there isn’t a job out there they demand that government tax ME in order to create one for them.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on January 5, 2007 at 09:03 pm

"Too many of you college students come rolling out of university with some generic business degree and expect $75,000 right off the bat.”

-I have to admit, I am earning a generic business degree...I had started with international business but found that perhaps I didn’t like the subject as much as I did. As a matter of fact the teacher claimed that my mother had never written any publications when there are actually plenty of hers out there- and they’re her OWN WORK. He was very unprofessional- not keeping his appointments or coming into his office during his posted office hours, nor was he willing to work with the students and advisees. He was hardly willing to go over the essay I’d written and revised over a 7 month period and gave it a failing grade which he never disclosed to me. Certainly, I wasn’t entitled to a grade, but neither did I feel that he was entitled to his job. Should they even offer tenure at all? That’s like saying, you get a good job- here’s a free ride. We don’t care if you abuse or cuss at the students.

Anyways, just a rant about some teacher.

I’m switching majors, especially since he told me to and he’s the head of the department. Apparently that was also unprofessional but I am finding myself a major in something I might like better.

I’m majoring in Business Administration, most likely. Yet another blanket degree. And yes, I’d hope that I get a nice job that will amount to pay raises and bonuses and travel and such- AFTER I’ve applied for as many jobs as I can possibly think of that would be worth my time and effort.

student student on January 5, 2007 at 09:20 pm

"And if there isn’t a job out there they demand that government tax ME in order to create one for them.”

I wouldn’t ask you for money...I’ve got enough saved up to provide for myself. How about you?

It’s really the government that takes your money and redistributes it without the consensus of you or the poor.

Hell, I had a cousin of mine tell me a story about beggars- some of them make $50,000 a year in Las Vegas. He said he’s offered beggars $1 sandwich off of the McDonald’s menu. That’s how you can tell if it’s a real beggar or not- he’s had a lot of refusals where they just want money, and one that wanted the sandwich honestly, when all of the above were begging for food.

student student on January 5, 2007 at 09:23 pm

James L. Sherley is just another crackpot professor that worships at the altar of liberal theology; a place where any and all aberrant behavior is celebrated as diversity.
Rob writes,“And we wonder were college kids get their sense of entitlement.”

That’s not all they get from these assholes.

Here’s ten more:

  • Gayle Rubin

  • Recipient of the Woman of the Year Award from the National Leather Association, a sadomasochist, fetish, bondage organization. Proponent of pedophilia. Argues that the government’s crack-down on child molesters is a “savage and undeserved witch hunt.” Rubin teaches anthropology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

  • “bell hooks”

  • Born Gloria Watkins, spells new name in lower case. Has written, “It is difficult not to hear in standard English always the sound of slaughter and conquest” and “I am writing this essay sitting beside an anonymous white male that I long to murder.” hooks is a distinguished professor of English at City College in New York.

  • Amiri Baraka

  • Born Everett Leroy Jones in 1934, adopted current name after converting to Islam in 1968. Former poet laureate of New Jersey. Has written: “… the white woman understands that only in the rape sequence [by a black man] is she likely to get cleanly, viciously popped” and “I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured.” Baraka has received a series of academic appointments at prestigious universities throughout the U.S. and now at Rutgers University.

  • Joseph Massad

  • Calls for the destruction of “the Jewish State.” Believes the “Jewish state is a racist state that does not have the right to exist,” and “the Jews are not a nation.” Massad teaches modern arab politics and intellectual history and an introductory course on Israeli politics at Columbia University.

  • Jose Angel Gutierrez

  • A former judge for Zavala County, Texas. Established the militant La Raza Unida (“the Unified Race”), an association dedicated to the belief that the Southwest does not rightfully belong to the U.S. Once said, “We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him.” Gutierrez teaches political science at the University of Texas, Arlington.

  • Armando Navarro

  • Advocates the overthrow of the U.S. government by Latinos, and Mexico’s reclaiming the Southwestern U.S. In 2002, sworn in as a member of the State Central Committee for the Party of Democratic Revolution, a Socialist party in Mexico. Navarro teaches ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside.

  • Angela Davis

  • Former member of the Communist Party and Black Panthers. Once on the run from the FBI. Indicted, but acquitted (her trial was a farce), for involvement in the death of a California judge and three others outside a courthouse in Marin County, Calif. Received the Lenin Peace Prize from the former Soviet Union. Davis teaches the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

  • Bill Ayers

  • Former commander in the Weather Underground. Spent most of the 1970s on the run from the FBI. In a coincidence, rich in irony, he was interviewed in the New York Times on 9/11 and said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers teaches early childhood development at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

  • Bernardine Dohrn

  • A leader of the Weather Underground. Spent most of the 1970s on the run from the FBI. Once said of the Manson murders of actress Sharon Tate and others: “Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!” The stomach was that of pregnant Sharon Tate. Dohrn teaches law at Northwestern University.


    Nowadays falsehood stands erect and truth lies prostrate on the ground.

Bezu Fache on January 6, 2007 at 12:53 am
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You mentioned Joseph Massad.He’s a jew hater that teaches at Columbia.

Columbia University is a national scandal. That a serious, top-tier university ... is an ideological fortress is an emblem of the utter debasement of the academic endeavor.

The dean of Columbia’s School of International Public Affairs, Lisa Anderson, is known for her sponsorship of Mr. Massad and her fundraising from Arab sources for an Edward Said chair in Middle Eastern studies.

Ms. Anderson had along with several other Columbia professors taken a junket to Saudi Arabia paid for by the kingdom-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco.

Here’s a few other anti-American Columbia Profs :
Rashid Khalidi--holder of the Edward Said chair.
Victor Navasky
Eric Foner
Mr. Foner wrote: “I’m not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House.”
Todd Gitlin-participant in De Genova’s “teach-in”
Nicholas De Genova, called for “a million Mogadishus”
Gil Anidjar, Hamid Dabashi, and Manning Marable.

Joel on January 6, 2007 at 01:35 am

You know, as much as I would like to be entitled to something I just can’t think of a damn thing besides the protection of the Constitution that I’m actually entitled to.

This is another example that shows that our educators really do live in some kind of parallel universe. Can anyone who reads this imagine the reaction of your employer if you made some kind of demand like this from them? I’d be unemployed before lunch, much less before I copuld starve myself.

Only in Academia would this kind of behavior be tolerated.


Election ‘08 - We Are So Screwed

Pilgrim on January 6, 2007 at 01:58 am
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It’s really the government that takes your money and redistributes it without the consensus of you or the poor.
student student on January 6, 2007 at 12:23 am

Ever hear of the ballot box? That’s where a consensus is achieved. But since you don’t vote, I wouldn’t expect you to understand this.

What the heck are those Benedictines teaching you kids anyway?

Joel on January 6, 2007 at 02:22 am

We could have a tail gate party, grill some steaks, and watch the event.


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Carol on January 6, 2007 at 09:30 am

Ever hear of the ballot box? That’s where a consensus is achieved. But since you don’t vote, I wouldn’t expect you to understand this.

What the heck are those Benedictines teaching you kids anyway?

Well, obviously it’s without your consensus. You may have voted on the tax, but you still have the choice to pay it or not. The only thing is you get to go to jail if you don’t. It’s your choice. If you do it anyways and you don’t want to do it, then you’ve done it without agreeing, correct? So they did not get your legal consent for ‘taking’ those taxes from you. Just don’t agree to pay your taxes next time. See what happens. It might take them 10 years to find out, but I’m sure they will.

student student on January 7, 2007 at 01:53 pm

/me just thought of a joke. “Give him the cold shoulder and fire him.”

Well actually I don’t think you can fire him for starving himself. Just simply don’t give him tenure, and fire him when you have a reason to (for example, him not working, not being energetic enough on the job...)

student student on January 7, 2007 at 05:57 pm
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