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txinvestigator wrote:I cannot believe the idiots in academia management.

To quote Maxwell Smart, "Would you believe this?"

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/23/weapons

to ban weapons from any stage production would preclude all of Shakespeare , Homer and Mark Twain (just to name a few) along with books such as "Old Yeller," "Black Beauty" and other stories that we've all read over the years by authors in all walks of life--and the movies made about them, for they all contain violence and killing.

All discussions about the Roman Empire and all other wars up to and including the development of the American West and on thru WWII and Vietnam to the present action in Iraq would have to be limited because they discuss killing and weapons development.

Simply Unbelievable.

Russ - kw5kw

Don't forget Bambi.

This is politically correct thinking at its worst. I have a feeling this policy will not be in effect for long.

- Jim

What they SHOULD do is have someone carry a big banner across the stage at the beginning of every scene that some bureaucrat ordered prop weapons removed from reading "THIS SCENE CENSORED BY ORDER OF <NAME>, PHONE NUMBER 555 - . . . "

I'm more than a little bothered that there are so many restrictions such as these for art, but the media can drill in images of guns, killers video tapes, bloody bodies and so forth in the name of free speech. Granted, most of these are on cable and don't have to be watched, but there is no requirement to go to these plays either, I wouldn't think.

They should be able to portray the performance in as realistic of a way as they deem necessary.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_ ... ssor_fired

Mon Apr 23, 8:28 AM ET

BOSTON - 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.

When is the word "pow" discriminating or obscene???

Another thing...As long as people are going to pay to become captive audiences to the pros and cons of a professors personal and political beliefs, you can certainly go somewhere else...

Its amazing how people forget about professors like Ward English and his ilk for condemning everything about this country under the free speech guise of a tenured position at a university of higher learning...Bullbutter!

If we think its bad at those schools, just imagine (I know most realize already) how bad it is in public schools...

The pins only get setup in K-12, Colleges refine them...Then life bowls them down with exteme prejudice!

This is all way beyond just losing inalienable rights afforded in our Constitution and the Bill of Rights...The wave is already heading for home...We are still on the backstretch in this race...

Ok, off the soapbox...

I want to make sure I understand everything I know about how to save the world now – Rap “artist� that contaminate our air waves with filth, violence, murder and defile women are acceptable, yet a wooden gun used in a Yale play will throw the North American Continent into chaos. Thank goodness for the Dean at Yale that’s saving our planet from destruction.