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Professor told to remove relic

susiesusie Member Posts: 7,602 ✭✭✭✭
edited April 2002 in General Discussion
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20020412-2457844.htm
A news article reference a history professor who was told to remove a weapon he was displaying from the civil war era. Since he is tenured he is firing back at officials (pun intended) by pointing out the ridiculous rules they have in place. Since I am only a starting member (not even a newbie) and have been here since 1999 I will be working on my postings. I can only aspire to join S-Pig's echelon someday.

Scouts Out!
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ah, political correctness! What MORONS! To bad we can't start an e-mail campaign to restore reason to OU.
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  • gap1916gap1916 Member Posts: 4,977
    edited November -1
    Good Post. It just goes to show that Comman Sences is not Common any more.
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  • badboybobbadboybob Member Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    An incredibly stupid act by "educators".

    PC=BS
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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    If they rule against him (April 15th?), I hope he sues. If the school can have its 'noisemaker' cannon, he should be able to have his 'decorative' rifle and spear.

    Susie, let us know what happens, please.

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I thought that most of the tenured professors are relics themselves. Yuck, yuck.

    (One more post on my way to promotion. This is stupid, but I can't help myself, I want that next star. This is like sending characters on "unpinning" expeditions in D&D, if anyone knows what I'm tallking about.)
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  • instrumentofwarinstrumentofwar Member Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gordian.....are you a gamer? I will say there are a few on this site Haven't played since my brothers left Ft Drum, it kinda blows.

    Some people just shouldn't be allowed to breed
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gamers? Gamers? Did someone say Gamers? I haven't been able to find any AD&D freaks like us since I left Ft. Drum. Maybe you should swing by Ft. Leonard Wood this summer on your way through the midwest and meet up with me and 13fister. We could have a night of gaming and then go for dem biscuits 'n gravy afterwards.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    welcome aboard!my little blurb says im a new member but i been here a while,just used different names.were a good bunch of folks.just dont ask opinion type questions like "whats the berst .45" youll get more than you can handle ha ha

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,NE'ER DO WELL, INSTIGATOR,AND RUSTY WALLACE FAN
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  • Gordian BladeGordian Blade Member Posts: 1,202 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    As I'm fond of saying, I'm way old enough to know better, but I'm known to play a computer or board game now and then. I got my start with Avalon Hill war games back in the 60's. That's dating myself! I haven't played non-computer type D&D for a while. I claim to be one of the first to play D&D, way back in 1974 when I was a grad student. We used to get together for late night or all night sessions with a computer programmer who worked at the college. He was the Dungeon Master. He had a really cool computer program that stored the dungeon map. It would draw the map on an HP plotter bit by bit as your characters explored. That way, we didn't have to waste time drawing the map and he didn't have to waste time telling us the dimensions of the rooms and corridors. When the session was over, we could take the map home and study it for the next expedition. You have to remember, PCs were just getting started and it was a big deal to write a computer program to make a pen draw something on a piece of paper. This was running on a Digital Equipment minicomputer.

    It all ended when he got married.

    One of my buddies from back in the day is playing the new computer game, Dungeon Siege. He bought it just for laughs, but he says it's well done for what it is. Not a lot of big strategy, lots of hacking and fireballs. It's very rare that we can get together to play a game face-to-face, what with wives and kids and all, but we usually have an email game going on.
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  • cpilericpileri Member Posts: 447 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    People still play ADnD!! The ORIGINAL version, right- maybe some of the cool 2nd edition and Planescape thrown in, but otherwise original. Oh, i can only dream... Thank God.
    Too bad I'm nowhere near Ft. Leonard Wood: stationed here in Scumington,DC.


    Suffer Not This King
    Howso' great their clamour, whatso'er their claim, Suffer not the old King under any name! He shall mark our goings, question whence we came, Set his guards about us, as in Freedom's name.
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    Good post Susie, Here is Ohio Universitie's President ROBERT GLIDDEN (PHD)'s email gliddenr@ohio.edu
    I emailed to tell him his policy is wrong. We should flood him......
    BTW - I signed my name and put RWB after (Refinery Welder Boilermaker)

    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)

    Edited by - BlueTic on 04/13/2002 12:36:12
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  • BlueTicBlueTic Member Posts: 4,072
    edited November -1
    Response from the President of the University:

    Mr. XXXXX: I would encourage you to check the facts of this case before you form a judgment. This professor has been charged by colleagues as being threatening and intimidating to them! Under the circumstances, and with a history of this sort of thing from this particular professor, we as an institution cannot ignore such a complaint.

    The University policy against workplace violence mentions guns only in the context of threatening behavior. For that reason he was visited by a University police officer in response to a complaint by a colleague. The professor removed the gun himself, then proceeded to spread this story as if he is totally innocent. Whether his behavior indeed is, or has been, threatening is still under investigation, but the gun stays off the wall until that is determined.

    Unfortunately, these are times in our society when one must take such complaints seriously, particularly when there is a pattern of disrespect and incivility.

    RG


    IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was this a history professor? I bet they want him to use flowers instead of muskets when he talks about the revolutionary war
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sent the good Dr. a note suggesting he lay in a stock of diapers for the complaintants and remember to check under the bed for the Boogie Man. Ridiculous, ludicrous . . . they all seem inadequate . . . guess "politically-correct" will have to do.
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