|
Professor Fired for VT Re-enactment
|
View this Thread in Original format
| inconspicuous |
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow."
The five-minute demonstration at Emmanuel College on Wednesday, two days after a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus, included a discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public's "celebration of victimhood," said the professor, Nicholas Winset.
During the demonstration, Winset pretended to shoot some students. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset to illustrate his point that the gunman might have been stopped had another student or faculty member been armed.
"A classroom is supposed to be a place for academic exploration," Winset, who taught financial accounting, told the Boston Herald.
He said administrators had asked the faculty to engage students on the issue. But on Friday, he got a letter saying he was fired and ordering him to stay off campus.
Winset, 37, argued that the Catholic liberal arts school was stifling free discussion by firing him, and he said the move would have a "chilling effect" on open debate. He posted an 18-minute video on the online site YouTube defending his action.
The college issued a statement saying: "Emmanuel College has clear standards of classroom and campus conduct, and does not in any way condone the use of discriminatory or obscene language."
Student Junny Lee, 19, told The Boston Globe that most students didn't appear to find Winset's demonstration offensive.
Source
c0r version: the guy pointed markers at kids & pretended to shoot them, a la VT, to start a discussion. He got fired. He's bitching. |
|
|
| Fast Turtle |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
Winset, 37, argued that the Catholic liberal arts school was stifling free discussion by firing him, and he said the move would have a "chilling effect" on open debate.
Source |
|
|
|
| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
Student Junny Lee, 19, told The Boston Globe that most students didn't appear to find Winset's demonstration offensive.
Source |
Neither do I. Mountain out of a mole hill, imo. |
|
|
| Lebezniatnikov |
Saw this on CNN. Craziest part of the story:
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
Winset, who taught financial accounting, |
Since when does accounting class incorporate role-playing? |
|
|
| DarkAngel |
| Maybe he shoulda used a squirt gun instead of his finger. |
|
|
| Ripped Bag |
| pussification of america... |
|
|
| inconspicuous |
| maybe it's unreasonable, but why make the point of doing it? There are a million other ways to spark that discussion that you know will not get national media coverage. If you want to make a point, live with the consequences. The guy's lacking some common sense. |
|
|
| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
BOSTON, Massachusetts (AP) -- An adjunct professor |
here is his problem, he is not tenured. adjunct is almost like a part time employee.
I don't see any problem with what he did. Hell I could see myself doing the same thing (although I did not :p )
therefore i disagree with the firing ! |
|
|
| Frenchie |
| Are you serious? in' kids. Just because a teacher pulls a stunt, which wasn't a stunt at all just a demonstration of what happened, like this a kid had to go open his big fat snicker eating mouth and rat on him? America:rolleyes: |
|
|
| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by DarkAngel
Maybe he shoulda used a squirt gun instead of his finger. |
lol, that would have gone over just great! |
|
|
| Trancealot |
if the shootings never of happened he could of done with no issue but if the shooting never did occur would he had a discussion like he did? Amercia is lead by the media. If person A does something and America don't like it then don't copy person A until it becomes old news and no one will give a damn.
Personally best thing VT can do it make a memorial and life will go on except for the parents it happened to. Life sucks sometimes and time will only tell until Amercia gets hit with something big, good or bad.:whip: :conf: :wtf: |
|
|
| wotyzoid |
| wow tahts what i call bad administration....but a video on youtube, thats just lame..bad call proff.:rolleyes: |
|
|
|
|
