Friday, April 8, 2016

"A professor was subjected to a lengthy Title IX investigation for her article about how there are too many Title IX investigations"


You can learn more about Kipnis’s “Inquisition” over at The Torch.

9 comments:

edutcher said...

Another "How Dast Thou"?

We're not allowed to think, to criticize?

And these are supposed to be learned people.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Obama is doing that with people who criticize him.

ndspinelli said...

Sounds like a Marx Bros. movie.

deborah said...

What an absolute pain it would be to have to hire a lawyer, pay costs, etc. Orwellian.

virgil xenophon said...

@deborah/

That's the entire point. Kafka and Orwell are in a dead heat here for being objects of worship by these types..

deborah said...

Yes, the nightmare of the human drive to organize and classify.

TTBurnett said...

"Whatever it is, I'm against it."
And, looking forward to Title IX, he always gets his man.

Jim in St Louis said...

Good Link TT.

The professor seems like a very balanced and reasonable person. I think she is wrong when she suggests the solution is the "professors standing up" against these types of witch-hunts.

There is no penalty for false charges, there is no drawback for BLM, or any other group to raise as much hell as they can. They will use Title IX, or anything else. And these groups are filled with people who do just want to cause some drama, and often they are being used by the teachers as a threat against the administration.

Melissa Click was not about fighting racism or having a safe space, she wanted the U of MO to pay a higher % of her health insurance. It was a labor dispute. Similar to this case. How can an on line article be a 'threat' or 'retaliation' against someone?

Leland said...

Because spending money on lawyers is to best financial decision a professor can make? Or perhaps if less money was spent on lawyers by educators, education would be cheaper.