tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post4590869372886776733..comments2024-03-16T05:00:38.826-04:00Comments on Egnorance: Guess which one NYU hired, and which one NYU firedmregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-38973084801092760752013-06-18T11:59:45.500-04:002013-06-18T11:59:45.500-04:00So we figured out yesterday that the title of this...So we figured out yesterday that the title of this post is entirely inaccurate. None of the people mentioned was either fired or hired by NYU. Perhaps our host could add a correction.<br /><br />HooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-77332436864761581792013-06-17T12:34:10.075-04:002013-06-17T12:34:10.075-04:00Ben, I'm not a professor. Well, I do teach an ...Ben, I'm not a professor. Well, I do teach an occasional university course as an adjunct, but that's a different thing. I'm retired.Adm. G Boggs, Glenbeckistan Navynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-29346368769891272182013-06-17T12:00:54.079-04:002013-06-17T12:00:54.079-04:00I must say, Admiral, I have always doubted that yo...I must say, Admiral, I have always doubted that you are really a professor. I never encountered a conservative professor in my college years. I kind of doubted that they exist. The whole system is political. The only reason I believe Egnor is a professor is because he blogs under his real name. <br /><br />BenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-4372003588613335372013-06-17T11:42:49.326-04:002013-06-17T11:42:49.326-04:00"bullshit strokes their tiny brains."
T..."bullshit strokes their tiny brains."<br /><br />That sums you up nicely, Mathoo. LOLAdm. G Boggs, Glenbeckistan Navynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-82217315448049009452013-06-17T11:38:40.355-04:002013-06-17T11:38:40.355-04:00Yes, Boudin is a "Scholar in Residence" ...Yes, Boudin is a "Scholar in Residence" like her predecessor in 1994, Bernardine Dohrn. I guess Bernie was available earlier because she got less jail time.<br /><br />Boudin is also a Bachelor's-level (law school dropout) adjunct faculty member at Columbia University’s School of Social Work. She is experienced, having taught on a Soviet collective farm in '65. I presume she teaches something like Activism 455: Do's and Don'ts With Nail Bomb Triggers, having survived a 1970 Palestinian-style work accident building a bomb that was intended for a military dance. The explosion collapsed the Greenwich Village apartment building and killed three valiant comrades. Her Socialist courage could not be suppressed, though. She then ran and hid, allegedly in Cuba.<br /><br />Class lady, that. Some women do their nails, some build nail bombs. You can tell which is which by the lipstick on the snout and the stink of left-wing hypocrisy.Adm. G Boggs, Glenbeckistan Navynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-88328488860404666142013-06-17T11:11:41.225-04:002013-06-17T11:11:41.225-04:00Personally, I believe Chen. Idiots are free to bel...<i>Personally, I believe Chen. Idiots are free to believe</i> <br /><br />That sums you up nicely, admiral. LOL<br /><br />HooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-73196055982608550812013-06-17T11:03:01.966-04:002013-06-17T11:03:01.966-04:00Mathoo: "[T]hat's Chen's side of the ...Mathoo: "[T]hat's Chen's side of the story."<br /><br />Duh. <br /><br />"[A]ll fellowships come to an end.”<br /><br />Duh.<br /><br />"NYU is not a villain."<br /><br />Duh. NYU is an institution desperate for money. Its Administrators are a gang of conniving, power-hungry, Ivy-envying money grubbers.<br /><br />NYU is famous for creating more student indebtedness than any other university: <br /><br /><i>[t]he 2010 graduating class departed campus owing $659 million, according to Department of Education data, the highest sum of any class in the country (excluding a handful of for-profit colleges)... Under [President] Sexton's leadership, the school has embarked on a series of misguided propositions, opponents assert, <b>including opening satellite campuses overseas in Shanghai</b> and Abu Dhabi."</i> <br />--- Puffington Host<br /><br />And the President has so little power, he cannot extend a fellowship. But he can<br /><br /><i>[award Jacob Lew] a $685,000 bonus as he was leaving to take a position at Citigroup, an unusual payment for someone who was leaving voluntarily...</i><br />--- NYT<br /><br />And that was <i>in addition</i> to underwriting Lew's $1.5 million mortgage, $440,000 of which was "forgiven".<br /><br /><i>Cui bono</i>. Personally, I believe Chen. Idiots are free to believe whatever bullshit strokes their tiny brains.Adm. G Boggs, Glenbeckistan Navynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-35145389275369020092013-06-17T10:59:13.484-04:002013-06-17T10:59:13.484-04:00Boudin's is not a fellowship. She is invited t...Boudin's is not a fellowship. She is invited to NYU for a day to give a lecture and have discussions. From the <a href="http://www.law.nyu.edu/sheinbergscholar/index.htm" rel="nofollow">program page</a>: <br /><br /><i>The Rose Sheinberg Lecture Program invites a scholar working on cutting-edge issues of gender, race, and class to participate in a day of informal discussion, classroom teaching and formal lecture in order to expose the Law School community to a variety of ideas, insights, and initiatives.</i> <br /><br />HooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-11345158702902019092013-06-17T10:47:27.923-04:002013-06-17T10:47:27.923-04:00"The fellowship’s end, Mr. Beckman said, “had..."The fellowship’s end, Mr. Beckman said, “had nothing to do with the Chinese government — all fellowships come to an end.”"<br /><br />When does Boudin's fellowship end?mregnorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-37673638639846128422013-06-17T10:29:55.421-04:002013-06-17T10:29:55.421-04:00Again, that's Chen's side of the story. Fu...Again, that's Chen's side of the story. Further in the NYT article we read the other side: <br /><br /><i>The university issued a statement of its own on Sunday, denying Mr. Chen’s claims. “We are very discouraged to learn of Mr. Chen’s statement, which contains a number of speculations about the role of the Chinese government in N.Y.U.’s decision-making that are both false and contradicted by the well-established facts,” John Beckman, a university spokesman, said in the statement. He said the university was “puzzled and saddened” by Mr. Chen’s accusations but that it would continue to help him and his family.<br /><br />The university insists that Mr. Chen’s law school fellowship was always meant to be for one year, and those who have worked closely with him in recent months said he understood the time limitations of a financial arrangement that even Mr. Chen acknowledged was extremely generous. The fellowship’s end, Mr. Beckman said, “had nothing to do with the Chinese government — all fellowships come to an end.”</i><br /><br />NYU scholars are free to decide whether they want to renew Chen's one-year fellowship. They have no more obligation to keep him there than, say, Witherspoon Institute has an obligation to offer him a new position. <br /><br />The outrage is completely fabricated. NYU is not a villain. <br /><br />HooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-62187819134175958702013-06-17T10:00:38.951-04:002013-06-17T10:00:38.951-04:00Fellowships are, to my knowledge, always temporary...Fellowships are, to my knowledge, always temporary. They are also frequently extended.<br /><br />However, Chen himself says that <br /><br /><i>he [is] being forced to leave New York University over concerns that his activism was harming the university’s relationship with China.</i> <br />--- (New York Times)<br /><br />Of course, some bootlicking lackey-boyz might prefer to believe that Chen is a liar and it's all a regrettable situation the figurehead President of New York University really has no control over. So very sad, don't you think? After all, the election is over. Why, just one year ago, Chen was useful...<br /><br /><i>[Chen's] exit [from China] resolves a dispute that has complicated U.S.-China relations since he turned up at the American embassy in Beijing on April 26 after escaping detention in Shandong province. <b>For President Barack Obama, running for re-election, it puts to rest an issue over which he has been berated by Republicans for not being tough enough on China.</b></i><br />--- Newsmax (5/2012)<br /><br />The Lackwit Administration doesn't need political cover anymore, so Chen is disposable.Adm. G Boggs, Glenbeckistan Navynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-1047123617089749902013-06-17T09:56:04.366-04:002013-06-17T09:56:04.366-04:00You are willfully lying. A university president ha...You are willfully lying. A university president has no involvement hiring decisions. He does not even rubber-stamp the faculty decision, which is the prerogative of the dean of the school. <br /><br />HooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-33789694177819534462013-06-17T09:18:22.878-04:002013-06-17T09:18:22.878-04:00My alma mater received FIRE's 2010 "Speec...My alma mater received FIRE's 2010 "Speech Code of the Year Award."<br /><br />http://thefire.org/article/12679.html<br /><br />That's because my alma mater is a reeducation camp for heretics. No dissenting opinions allowed. <br /><br />In 2011, UMass Amherst was rated the fourth worst college in the country for free speech. <br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-lukianoff/the-12-worst-colleges-for_b_814706.html#s230527&title=UMass_AmherstAmherst_Massachusetts<br /><br />TRISHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-55545613047056276052013-06-17T09:08:24.260-04:002013-06-17T09:08:24.260-04:00@Hoo:
Bullshit. Presidents of universities have m...@Hoo:<br /><br />Bullshit. Presidents of universities have much power, and obviously can direct hiring and firing.mregnorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-13643354579381673552013-06-17T09:07:45.079-04:002013-06-17T09:07:45.079-04:00Ward Churchill claimed to be some kind of gunrunne...Ward Churchill claimed to be some kind of gunrunner for the American Indian Movement in the 70's. It's possible that he's just trying to bolster his radical chic and that that's a lie too, just like everything else he says, but that's what he claims. He was a department chair in the ethnic studies department. His level of education? A bachelor's degree. <br /><br />So yes, I think universities tend to grant professorships based on radical chic, not credentials. Either that, or they mistakenly believe that radical chic is a credential.<br /><br />I better watch what I say, or else KW is going to accuse me of hating education. That's what he says whenever anyone is rightly critical of academia. He confuses wanting education to be better with hating education. Weird. <br /><br />TRISHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-47529836953319251402013-06-17T09:05:04.348-04:002013-06-17T09:05:04.348-04:00In this Progressive age, the opposite of "div...In this Progressive age, the opposite of "diversity" is "university".<br /><br />The Progressive Left will permit no dissent within the grounds of the university. <br /><br />Persons who disagree with or challenge their dogmas and myths cannot even be invited to speak to interested groups without risk of institutional property damage and disruption of the event.<br /><br />Students and faculty who speak out are demonized, ridiculed, often subjected to kangaroo "courts", and exiled or forced into political re-education classes. The <a href="http://thefire.org/" rel="nofollow">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education</a> (FIRE) has documented many, many abridgements of civil rights on campus. By the way, FIRE is an organization that vigorously defends civil rights on campus and is worthy of your donations.<br /><br />Universities have lost their way. I am partially to blame. I was part of the "let the inmates run the asylum" crowd of left-wing loons in the early seventies, and the current situation is nothing more than the full flowering of that "movement". Boudin will feel right at home there. She will be coddled and celebrated; any left-winger who has been in prison for murder has the Truman Capote Seal of Approval. I have no doubt that the taxpayers she so despises and scorns will be sending grant money (that would be better spent on braces or private schools) her way. <br /><br />I doubt that Chen Guangcheng has many good words for the kind of left-wing terrorist governments that Boudin and the NYTimes' Thomas Friedman (who fantasizes about "what if we could just be China for a day?") celebrate and lionize. <br /><br />No, NYU's choice has nothing to do with "forgiveness". Their choice has everything to do with promoting an unsullied, extreme left-wing agenda in the law school and burnishing their "edgy" creds among the academic nomenklatura.<br /><br />But now I turn to a different topic: despite a few false starts and beginner's errors, I encourage you, Popeye, to keep reading the from the Bible. It's not important that you "get it" right out of the gate. Eventually, it will get you.Adm. G Boggs, Glenbeckistan Navynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-86202212942618768602013-06-17T09:02:40.688-04:002013-06-17T09:02:40.688-04:00Well, I suppose that's different. If his posit...Well, I suppose that's different. If his position was always temporary then it was always temporary.<br /><br />TRISHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-50179221866859560602013-06-17T08:56:25.035-04:002013-06-17T08:56:25.035-04:00Surely you know that things don't work that wa...Surely you know that things don't work that way at universities. The president can't tell one department to fire someone so that another department could hire someone else. Decisions are made at the departmental level. Aren't you vice chair or something? <br /><br />HooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-16695077581932495512013-06-17T08:36:57.995-04:002013-06-17T08:36:57.995-04:00How about making the murderer's position tempo...How about making the murderer's position temporary, ending... ummm... now, and making Chen's appointment long-term. mregnorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-72888442193308947212013-06-17T08:34:39.069-04:002013-06-17T08:34:39.069-04:00The New York Post gives only one side of the story...The New York Post gives only one side of the story. Here is a Reuters story, which paints the situation in a different light. <br /><br /><i>A Chinese dissident who fled his home country to become a visiting scholar at New York University accused the school on Sunday of asking him to leave because of "unrelenting pressure" from China.<br /><br />NYU denied the claim, saying that it had said last year before blind dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived that his fellowship would last up to a year and end sometime this summer.<br /><br />...<br /><br />NYU pointed to a PBS television interview in May 2012 with Cohen, who had said Chen would be at NYU for a year at most while he adjusted to a new country.<br /><br />Chen could not be reached for comment on Sunday.<br /><br />John Beckman, an NYU spokesman, described Chen's claims as "both false and contradicted by the well-established facts."<br /><br />"Mr. Chen's fellowship at NYU and its conclusion have had nothing to do with the Chinese government. All fellowships come to an end," Beckman said in a statement.<br /><br />NYU said Chen had received offers from two other academic institutions. Fordham University Law School in New York said on Friday it was in talks with Chen.<br /><br />The second offer is from the Witherspoon Institute, based in Princeton, New Jersey, Bob Fu, the president of Texas-based Christian advocacy group ChinaAid, told Reuters. Chen had not yet made a decision, said Fu, whose group has campaigned for Chen.<br /></i> <br /><br />The NYU position was temporary from the start and it's not like the guy has nowhere to go. NYU has done a good deed and is now being unfairly maligned. <br /><br />HooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-6377840452651794222013-06-17T08:21:00.690-04:002013-06-17T08:21:00.690-04:00That should be "their misunderstandings"...That should be "their misunderstandings" not they're.<br /><br />The TorchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-69559197624931134052013-06-17T08:17:57.333-04:002013-06-17T08:17:57.333-04:00Angry atheists study the Bible hoping to find pass...Angry atheists study the Bible hoping to find passages they can take out of contexts and use against believers. Sometimes they're misunderstandings are really laughable but they always make them with a straight face. <br /><br />The TorchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-63296127933268580312013-06-17T08:16:19.871-04:002013-06-17T08:16:19.871-04:00Hey yo, KW: This is a story about hypocrisy. There...Hey yo, KW: This is a story about hypocrisy. There was room for convicted terrorist Boudin, but not the blind dissident who stands up to the oppressive Chinese government. <br /><br />But more to your point. I know that in your world, political terrorists are mostly right-wing in orientation. So the ratio of right-wing to left-wing terrorists must be about 100: 1. <br /><br />So why is that so many left-wing terrorists are employed at universities? It's almost as if universities are celebrating their deeds. If a university really wanted to be kind of forgiving, wouldn't they hire a few right-wing terrorists as well?<br /><br />That would never happen. What you're seeing here with Boudin would be like a Catholic university hiring an abortion clinic bomber right out of prison. People like you would understand such a move as condoning the action, not as Christian forgiveness. <br /><br />Hiring this Boudin had nothing to do with forgiveness and everything to do with celebrating murder.<br /><br />The TorchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-57014379568569293152013-06-17T07:59:46.075-04:002013-06-17T07:59:46.075-04:00You make a poor biblical scholar, KW. And you'...You make a poor biblical scholar, KW. And you're also disingenuous.<br /><br />First, the sins forgiven here are personal transgressions against you. So if someone does you wrong, it's your duty to forgive him, make nice, etc. Boudin didn't shoot my family member. <br /><br />That doesn't mean that there aren't consequences. For example, if you molest kids, you aren't allowed back in a school again, even if you've served your time. <br /><br />The reason I think you're disingenuous is because everyone know that you would be up in arms if they hired Richard Jewell or Timothy McVeigh to teach, or even a Randy Weaver. <br /><br />There is no hypocrisy here, except on your part. <br /><br />Also, where did you come up with the condition that after ex-cons have done their time, only then can they be forgiven?<br /><br />And on another note, I'm sick of biblically ignorant anti-Christian bigots quoting the Bible in a deceptive manner.<br /><br />Joey Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-38656542970793922342013-06-17T07:41:55.239-04:002013-06-17T07:41:55.239-04:00It’s just like Jesus said in Matthew 6:9-15: If yo...It’s just like Jesus said in Matthew 6:9-15: If you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins, except for ex-cons who have done their time, they shall be shunned forever with no chance for redemption. (I added the part about the ex-cons to bring the Bible up to date with modern Christian thinking. If that’s not appropriate, I guess I’ll see you in Hell.)<br /><br />-KW<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com