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That actually doesn't matter. Don't be like the local radio dj complaining that the mu prez was rich and white and male as if reading off a list of crimes. Guy has a beef then so be it regardless of family $$$
Yes, it does actually matter. You can't accuse someone of "privilege" when you are one of the privileged.
What have we become as this politically correct country? I didn't approve of that professor, but can we just keep firing everybody we don't agree with, or force them to resign? Are we a nation of bullies now?
The political nazis are out of control and while I personally think it seems fair that liberals are being now being "hoisted by their own petard" it isn't good for freedom and those who live their freedom.
She should have apologized to the reporter for her behavior. That school won't be happy until everyone is out of a job and the students run the asylum.
When a professor of journalism tries to block the press at a public university, yes, she should resign. She has no business teaching students about the role of journalism is she thinks this is appropriate behavior.
Which means she's still a Communications Professor at that school. She's just not attached to the Journalism department anymore.
Nice obfuscation of this fact isn't it?
"Dr. Melissa A. Click earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy.
Current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans’ relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children's television programs."
"...the impact of social media in fans' relationship with Lady Gaga..." Holy smokes. Is that what they teach in college these days? No wonder the younger generation seems to be such a bunch of morons.
What have we become as this politically correct country? I didn't approve of that professor, but can we just keep firing everybody we don't agree with, or force them to resign? Are we a nation of bullies now?
You mean the lady that unlawfully prevented a press member from access to public property and called for physical violence against them?
Ironic that you used "bullies" in your post to try to defend someone that clearly violated a students civil rights with threat and force.
She didn't get fired over some minor offense or perceived insult.....I think you should really step back and take in exactly what she did (she could be up on several criminal charges if they wanted) and that she represents the school.
"...the impact of social media in fans' relationship with Lady Gaga..." Holy smokes. Is that what they teach in college these days? No wonder the younger generation seems to be such a bunch of morons.
"Dr. Melissa A. Click earned her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research interests center on popular culture texts and audiences, particularly texts and audiences disdained in mainstream culture. Her work in this area is guided by audience studies, theories of gender and sexuality, and media literacy.
Current research projects involve 50 Shades of Grey readers, the impact of social media in fans’ relationship with Lady Gaga, masculinity and male fans, messages about class and food in reality television programming, and messages about work in children's television programs."
Though her expertise sounds crucial to a well-rounded education , what in the world was she doing in the journalism dep't. to begin with.
My fifth grade teachers had better educations than this woman. And had more to say that was of interest.
Colleges and universities need to get rid of these gut courses and curricula.
They should offer serious courses in history, literature, philosophy, math, science, and the arts.
The humanities curriculum should only use classic texts: authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Balzac, Shakespeare, Dante, Flaubert, Cervantes, etc.
All students should be well versed in the history of Western Civilization.
There should be no courses or curricula in ethnic or women's studies, "mass communication," and other such lightweight or agenda-driven fluff.
It's not as though women and minorities are not already studied in literature and history classes (Virgina Woolf, Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin, the Civil Rights Movement, etc.)
The social "sciences" should be dumped altogether. Their pretensions to being scientific are ludicrous.
People who graduate from college/university should be devoted readers of serious books.
Educated, cultivated and civilized people could not possibly be like this fraudulent professor with her research interests in "popular culture, texts and audiences" (being a couch potato in front of the boob tube), "theories of gender and sexuality" (meaning "stuff we make up to promote our feminist agenda"), 50 Shades of Grey, Lady Gaga, etc.
Garbage. And to think taxpayers are paying for it....
Yes. Civil discourse. Codes of conduct. If you want to remain on college campuses, you must show a modicum of respect to others. That's the rule. You won't get arrested for being an ***hole as it's not a crime, but you will be reprimanded by the school that you're attending. I'm sorry this hurts you so much.
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, what in the world was she doing in the journalism dep't. to begin with.