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Internet Lawyers -- Not Just for Publishers Anymore
A Dartmouth professor has decided to sue her students (with some faculty thrown in) for discrimination. Supposedly, "discrimination" now entails students disagreeing with you. Who knew?

(If you don't want to wade through all that, there are also summaries at Gawker and IvyGate.)

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	rosehiptea 2008-04-30 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	Couldn't she just given them bad grades and then told them it was because they didn't grasp the material? [/sarcasm] I kind of wonder what she actually said and what the student actually said if the whole class really did applaud. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tangentialone 2008-04-30 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I would have liked to see more of these horrible, horrible eval forms. (Reply to this)(Parent)

mydemand
2008-04-30 10:49 pm UTC (link)

Couldn't she just given them bad grades and then told them it was because they didn't grasp the material?

That actually happened to me a couple of times, because I tried to address some things outside the norm. Apparently the only valid youth subculture in the world is emo, and using theatre as part of a bigger social activist program a.l.a. Vagina Monologues isn't innovative enough! or something.

/rant

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	rosehiptea 2008-05-01 06:28 am UTC (link)
	But the Vagina Monologues never causes discussion or controversy, silly! (I don't always get academia either. There are times I'm kind of glad I went to a straightforward commuter school.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mydemand 2008-05-01 06:30 am UTC (link)
	Finally someone that understands me! I don't get academia either; don't get me started on how most "academia" undergrads are exposed to are from old white men, and anything beyond that is "exotic"... (Reply to this)(Parent)

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