Oso planning to go pro
Like I said awhile ago, Marquette being Marquette. Relative to our national relevance and value of the degree, we must have the dumbest bureaucrats in academia. I don't know how that's even debatable.
We get in the national news for school screw ups every six months. This person is an idiot who should have never been hired in the first place. That's how you prevent stuff like this.
I'd ask you to reconsider. MU's senior leadership was as appalled as you were. There's no doubt in my mind that this group chooses to push the envelope every chance they get. I also think it's true that McAdams blogged for maximum impact and succeeded. But the characterization that MU somehow celebrates Shakur's viewpoint is inaccurate. Those who are trying to paint this administration as some far left leaning Berkeley-style team couldn't be further from the truth.
I see they fired the head of the Gender and Sexuality Center. My concern is will her replacement be any better as they will likely hire someone with a similar view. If McAdams is dismissed will they replace him with another person who shares his views?Just asking.
If McAdams is dismissed will they replace him with another person who shares his views?Just asking.
Congratulations! I was unaware that you have the ability to only hire employees who never screw up on the job!Can you see the future? Is there an oracle you seek advice from? Tell us!!! This is what prevents us from being mindless bureaucrats!!!
But seriously, tell me why she shouldn't have been hired in the first place. Here is her LinkedIn profile.https://www.linkedin.com/pub/susannah-bartlow/7/369/9a8What about her background said that she shouldn't have been hired at Marquette?
A very basic background search could find if she supported, say, a terrorist on the FBI's most wanted list.I would start by excluding people who cheerlead for the FBI's most wanted.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
So, to recap, a small group of students, with a member of the faculty, commissioned a controversial mural in a rarely seen office in the student union. It went unnoticed for a few weeks. When it was finally brought to the attention of the top levels of administration, the mural was painted over and the faculty member fired. And some people continue to get their knickers in a twist. To borrow from one of my favorite bands, Great Big Sea, "let it go, let it go, this is smaller than you know. It's no bigger than a pebble lying on a gravel road."It appears that some of you just aren't happy unless you are faux-raged about something.
How about MU look through their collection of these organizations and get rid of them or merge them. Perhaps save some money to keep tuition in check or better fund actual academic programs.
I'll pose one other point. If McAdams was truly a Marquette man, I'd think he would have brought the Center's overstep quietly to Senior Leadership where the same chain of events regarding the mural removal and director termination would have likely occurred behind closed doors and not on Charlie Sykes or Fox & Friends. But no, he had to continue his bombastic pattern on the most sacred weekend of the year detracting from the graduation experience for the Class of 2015 (even our pal Chitown). How many other times in the past has he been reprimanded for this to the point where MU felt the need to begin termination proceedings? Makes him a grade one A-hole in my book.
While, in isolation, I do not share the outrage of others regarding the TA incident, I think I have to invoke the Brady Doctrine here by saying it's more probable than not that McAdams sat on this until graduation weekend, and for that, I agree with the Grade 1 A-hole award.If McAdams was really concerned with principle, or the reputation of the University for that matter, he should have anonymously leaked this and let Sykes or Fox News run with it.
Gotta laugh at those who think McAdams should have gone quietly to the same administration that is trying to fire him and report the mural to save them from this humiliation. With the way MU has harassed him throughout the years, that was never an option. BTW, McAdams job situation will remain in limbo until the fall when hearings resume. He most certainly has not been officially "fired" yet.
I hope whoever replaces him can foster that same quest for truth we seem to have lost these days on campus. Wouldn't it be refreshing to actually expand one's mind.