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McAdams suspended.http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/marquettes-john-mcadams-suspended-after-criticizing-ta-on-gay-marriage-discussion-b99410656z1-286100731.html?utm_source=&utm_medium=&utm_campaign=hsSays he's being treated like a terrorist, because well, that's McAdams for you.
Says he's being treated like a terrorist, because well, that's McAdams for you.
Kudos to the Dean for having the courage to do something, when he had to be certain McAdams would make an even bigger stink about this in the press after doing it. I guarantee you the first call McAdams made after getting the email was to the JS.
Agreed. Also, going to the JS right away is not a good way to help your case. I said awhile ago that his actions are dangerously close to sufficient for revocation of tenure. His going to the JS with "treating me like a terrorist" may be enough to push it over the edge.
The JS quoted his blog, he didn't go to the JS ...
How do you know he didn't? Do you think the JS takes the time to routinely peruse the blogs of university professors? I doubt it.Also, McAdams' use of the royal "we" is both annoying and a glimpse into his arrogance..."As for having to remain off campus — in effect, being treated like a potential terrorist — we don't know where that came from. The last time we were accused of harassment (it was sexual harassment, since we told an entire class that feminists grossly exaggerate the incidence of college date rape) we were not treated like a terrorist."
How do you know he didn't? Do you think the JS takes the time to routinely peruse the blogs of university professors? I doubt it.
I can almost guarantee that someone at the JS looked at McAdams blog. It is well known.
McAdams was on 620 this morning. Even if the print side hates the talk radio side, talk radio already covered it and made it an easy to write story. He may have gone to 620/Talk radio, but I highly doubt he went to the JS -there isnt a conservative at the JS, they're just avoiding the "Here's what the dead tree isn't covering" story on 620 and 1130. any that thinks this started with the JS covering the story has their head up their ass. What is interesting is that the story has been getting national attention http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/12/17/marquette-suspends-profs-teaching-orders-him-off-campus/
Well even if he didn't go to the JS, he certainly is going to the media in general...
He's trying to martyr himself. Generally, I'm cool with a conservative professing stirring some crap up at University, but this dude has just gone overboard. You want to be a martyr so bad? You just might get it. Have fun living on blogger income.
As he should. This is absurd.The issue was dead. MU handled Westboro perfectly. Should have let the controversy die out, but they couldn't help themselves.
I am fairly confident that they will find him not guilty, or issue him some sort of minor reprimand, and he will be back by second semester. There is a reason they waited on this until the first semester was over. I mean, it is generally unwise to call out a graduate student in your blog, but I am struggling with how this will deteriorate into a fireable offense.
That is a difference, but minor. He is still going public with these things with pretty strong language. Unwise. Also, unwise to indicate that previously you said to an entire class that "Feminsits grossly exaggerate the incidence of date rape."He is walking a very fine line and in my opinion he is on the wrong side of it.
way to walk back your own stupidity
I don't know the ins and outs of academia, so I can't speak to what will happen. I'm not even saying he should be fired, but not everything is politically motivated. Sometimes people are just a-holes, and they need to be dealt with in such a manner. McAdams routinely makes stuff fit his platform. If he really wanted to find out what was going on in the phil department, he could have started by engaging them. Didn't have to blog about it. I think the guy is super bright, but he's become a parody, where anything/everything that happens professionally is somehow an act of aggression against his conservative viewpoint, and then ends up as blog fodder.
He went to the JS, he went to 620...is the point any less valid?He took it out of house to make his employer look bad, which he does quite often. If I got in trouble for harassing someone at my work in the real world and managed to get on the radio and whine about it, what do you think would happen to me? Bye bye.Honestly regardless of politics, I don't see how anyone who loves MU can support a guy whose sole mission in life is to make MU look bad, whether its warranted or not. I'd say the same thing about a crazy liberal person badmouthing MU all over the media. Good riddance.