What Tenure?

~ Clarissa

A tenured professor was fired for saying the words “fuck” and “pussy” in the classroom.

Want to guess what she was accused of? Sexual harassment.

Now that she’s gone, the tender little snowflakes can be free from the horrible trauma of this very intolerable vocabulary.

Once again, where is the idiot commenter who was convinced that tenure means one can’t get fired? Hello, idiot, are you still being idiotic or have you come to your senses?

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11 thoughts on “What Tenure?”

  1. When I was little, I remember my friends all telling me that tenure meant you couldn’t be fired. I don’t know where they heard it. It makes me wonder where that sort of thinking came about.

    Isn’t there some way she could challenge the school’s reasoning?

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    1. She’s suing. But there it’s becoming increasingly hard to defend oneself from charges of immorality that students keep bringing against professors. I’m running out of saccharine readings that end in a wedding and nobody uses any profanity. 😦

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      1. At least from the description I read, there wasn’t any student complaint. The complaints originated from other faculty members (the version I read could be wrong, of course). I suspect some long standing grudges at work.

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        1. \ At least from the description I read, there wasn’t any student complaint.

          I read in comments (don’t know if true):

          \ Firing her was the right thing to do, and it was complaints from parents that got her fired.

          And this comment gives an interesting angle of viewing the situation:

          \ I’ve heard the athletics staff curses quite a bit. LSU should probably fire all of them.

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            1. Of course “Oh God” is cursing. I remember being horrified when I was first studying French that the French had no such sensibilities. Of course, I mostly escaped from this set of cultural attitudes, but it was not easy.

              However, I think that it is a professor’s job to challenge such narrow cultural attitudes on the part of students.

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              1. I shut the students down because I don’t allow anybody to impose their speech patterns on me. As for challenging their attitudes, I never cared enough. If people want to exist within their parochial fundamentalist systems of belief, that’s up to them.

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  2. Just saw another story about suing and universities. It is from 12 May 2015 , haven’t Googled how it ended:

    Nursing student who TWICE failed class sues her university for $75,000 claiming professor did not do enough to help her
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    Her lawsuit claims nursing professor Christina Tomkins gave her a distraction-free environment and extra time on final exam for second time.
    But she said the professor did not respond to telephone questions as promised leading to more stress.
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3078706/Nursing-student-failed-class-twice-sues-university.html

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