well.... a little more than safety. The issue I had way back when was with a creative writing teacher. We all had to give everyone else copies of our work.
The teacher complained that the nobody was writing "juicy" stuff. When one of the other students started submitting pornography, that was invariably what would be read out to the class, and the teacher would stare at the women at the class while it was being read. I say pornography -- it was really hateful stuff. I didn't complain until somebody got fucked to death with a table leg for having the nerve to be menstruating when the protagonist wanted to rape her, but at that point I figured that we had crossed some line between the other student's right to write pornography and my right not to have to listen to things like that. The teacher got very bent and ranted a bit about the first amendment. I then failed the class, even though all of my work had been returned to me with "fantastic" and "excellent" written on it. I still think he was wrong, but since he was tenured, I suspect that they haven't managed to fire him yet either. Dana On 2/28/07, Dinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/28/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jerry wrote: > > > I think that was the original argument. Let the professors teach, but > > > there needs to be bounds on what they can say. > > > > NO! That's where we disagree. > .... > > If a course is not as advertised, or doesn't deliver what's promised, > > then tort law covers that. Done and done. > > +1 > > Accredited might have been overlooked, as well-- it shouldn't be, > as it's an important part of this whole process, and is a pretty > heavy hitter in the "this can be taught, this can't" department. > > Sorta a check on the whole "we can do what we want" idea. > ** > I like that safety is the only reason to limit speech in school, > even tho that's kinda sad too-- Guess my freedom stops > where your safety starts, or some such, neh? THAT's a > slippery slope. > > Enter the Seat Belt! Heh. Sorta tho... =-/ > > Yup, not an easy thing to figure out, with or without The Law. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Macromedia ColdFusion MX7 Upgrade to MX7 & experience time-saving features, more productivity. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:229192 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
