tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post7233980591180227192..comments2024-02-17T07:59:18.705-08:00Comments on Grad Student Madness: Lowering ArizonaRufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-78101019110160692852007-02-21T07:59:00.000-08:002007-02-21T07:59:00.000-08:00PT: Yeah, it's to avoid professors bullying studen...PT: Yeah, it's to avoid professors bullying students. Most universities have structures in place to avoid that situation. However, there is a commonly held belief that once you get tenure, you can snort coke and show porno movies in class and not get in trouble with the administration. And, as usual, and like you said, the government sees a problem and reaches for a rule-book.<BR/><BR/>Hiromi: The funny thing is that I hear about it all the time too- on the Internet mostly. I still haven't <I>seen it</I> in eight years (shudder) of higher education. But, it's like the traveling salesman whose kidney was stolen- everybody knows somebody who really saw it!<BR/><BR/>"Jesus Marshmallow-centered Christ."<BR/><BR/>That'll be $500 please.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, the punchline to of this bill, aside from the fact that it won't last past the first lawyer who spots it, is that I guarantee that the guy who wrote the bill fining people for saying things that might offend little ears bitches about "political correctness" all the time!Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-63738066861049769142007-02-20T17:12:00.000-08:002007-02-20T17:12:00.000-08:00From the article:He [the sponsor of the bill] said...From the article:<BR/><BR/><I>He [the sponsor of the bill] said that he hears about this all the time and reads newspaper articles about it all the time.</I><BR/><BR/>Jesus Marshmallow-centered Christ.<BR/><BR/><I>Asked for specifics of the professorial behavior his bill would ban, he cited two examples from his own education at Arizona State University, from which he graduated in 1993.</I><BR/><BR/>So it's all about him, I guess.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-40473620159919768592007-02-20T13:45:00.000-08:002007-02-20T13:45:00.000-08:00It's probably a fairness issue concerning students...It's probably a fairness issue concerning students that might express a different point of view. As is usually the case, the people passing these kinds of laws are like the proverbial swatting flies with a hammer.SecondComingOfBasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03336586430250490679noreply@blogger.com