^ There's really not enough information in that article to determine what actually went on. It sounds more like a right-wing reporting bias.They make it seem like she was trying to make people feel guilty about thanksgiving, when she merely linked to a page that she didn't author, that considered as a small point the possibility that some native americans might mourn thanksgiving. Without seeing the memo, you can't judge her intentions, at least not as harshly as they are painting her there.
11/26/2007 3:10:51 AM
^ A typical left-wing, anti-Fox, knee-jerk defense. Do you dispute the quotations? Yes or no?Here's another source for you:
11/26/2007 3:48:32 AM
That article just points out that some NA's are still pissed that the white man took their lands. I don't see how it has anything to do with a left-wing media or anything.
11/26/2007 7:29:10 AM
It also doesn't have anything to do with the original intent of this thread. But I guess if 30-40% of your post content is trying to get liberals stirred up over nothing, you'll just stick the new material in an old thread so the users will be sure to click.
11/26/2007 7:34:12 AM
^ It sure worked for you, didn't it, dickhead?
11/26/2007 11:43:28 AM
This finally proves that too much of a good thing is bad. In this case too much education turns otherwise patriotic loyal conservative Americans into bleeding heart liberals. WTF.We should discourage higher education because it appears reaching the higher echelons of acadamia creates an environment where individuals start questioning the government instead of supporting our president and helping with the fight against the terrorists.
11/26/2007 12:17:06 PM
11/26/2007 12:23:09 PM
I hate that I am even responding to something posted that has nothing to do with this thread but I don't see why the true history and the modern concept of Thanksgiving can not coexist Yes, a group of fundamentalist Christians came here and pillaged the land from the natives and introduced all kinds of diseases and non-native plant and animal species; but that isn't the case today. White people got their land and they can enjoy their turkey, football and family. So everyone wins, right?
11/26/2007 1:09:30 PM
^Well its kinda like how we berate Nazi Germany for the holocaust, the ethnic killings in Eastern Europe and southeast asia, Saddam gassing the kurds, but view ourselves as the "good guys" all to hasty to forget that we pretty much desecrated an entire race in order to build our country.
11/26/2007 1:17:44 PM
11/26/2007 2:10:43 PM
I think of all those far left wing professors in the business schools and engineering programs that graduate thousands of people from NCSU each year. Oh right.
11/26/2007 2:24:06 PM
academia is the only place the leftists from the McCarthy red scare era were/are able to get work at all. then they've hired their own. i need to find this book, from Hobb's seminar on the 60's it covers SDS and such and details where all of them went after the 'movement' diedon a unrelated note, redistribution of wealth is a horrible idea and unconstitutional you've done well for yourself! let me take a good chunk of that and give to someone who sucks at life!
11/27/2007 3:55:02 PM
11/27/2007 4:04:32 PM
11/27/2007 4:22:09 PM
^x5 A link has already been listed by me that was the main source of concern. It was in the editorial from The Columbian--if you'd bothered to read it. http://oyate.org/resources/shortthanks.html
11/27/2007 4:35:33 PM
^ That's not the memo the person sent.From what I understand, she sent out a letter, than contained a link to that site, not the site itself.Maybe it was something like"hey guys, check this out, it has some myths about thanksgiving that maybe we should be aware of: http:/www.whatever"Nothing so far that i've seen has posted what the lady actually said, or how it was actually portrayed, so I don't see why there is enough information to string her up, or to even make as big a deal as the right is apparently making about this.
11/27/2007 5:25:21 PM
I like to defend academia, which have a tough job trying to provide quality instruction without being controversial, BUT...
11/27/2007 5:45:38 PM
^ Pretty good. Here's yet another outrageous incident:A Conservative Student’s Rude Awakening at UNC-Chapel Hill
11/28/2007 3:23:06 AM
What's more outrageous is that such a mediocre article can be put into print. Oh wait, nearly every article in that newspaper you posted is conservative! I wonder if any liberals tried to write articles for it? BIAS BIAS Anyway, I've heard several students claim this. I even had a teacher that some people in the class tried to say this about. I exchanged papers with some of them so they could see what I did right and I could see what they did wrong. It had nothing to do with the ideas they wrote about, it had to do with the fact that they were shitty writers. The author above is a mediocre writer at best and I'd be hard pressed to give his article anything above a C in a class. What's a C mean? Average, mediocre. When you start making A's and B's standard then you change their meaning. I personally enjoyed taking the classes where the teachers made C's the average and made you challenge yourself to get A's or B's. And I didn't make shoddy excuses up when I got mediocre grades in those classes either, I simply tried harder.
11/28/2007 7:34:36 AM
11/28/2007 10:11:29 AM
^^ Nice try. But the student at issue was being graded on specifically desired content--or lack thereof--not syntax. The comments from the grader such as "that's not really true" have more to do with a position taken by the writer than "shitty" writing. In addition, (1) the type of corrections you're referring to would likely involve mostly proofreader's marks, and (2) the student at issue admitted that most of the bad grades he received prior to graduating were his fault--but not all of them. ^ It was a TA doing the grading, not a professor. Did you even bother to read the article before you spasmodically defended the incident in question?
11/28/2007 2:05:30 PM
11/28/2007 2:17:32 PM
^ Yeah, I thought you would post some crap like that. So, how would you suggest that the writer at issue support these positions?
11/28/2007 2:29:29 PM
I really can't explain it if you accept what the author wrote as 100% truth, which I don't. I cannot imagine any professor acting in such a way, and I've had some pretty liberal professors (and conservative as well). I think the author of this piece is playing to the audience he is writing to and probably giving us a fishermans tale about his experience with this class.
11/28/2007 2:33:59 PM
^ Same here.^^ Maybe it's because Bush's policies really do suck when it comes to everything and merely pointing that out was a better solution than anything he was offering before.
11/28/2007 2:56:38 PM
11/28/2007 3:29:01 PM
^^^ For the last time, it was the TA, not the fucking professor--TRY READING THE OPINION PIECE!!!1^^ That's so fucking stupid, I'm not even going to deal with it. JESUS!!!1[Edited on November 28, 2007 at 3:30 PM. Reason : .]
11/28/2007 3:30:12 PM
My point is if the kid had a problem with his grade he should take it up with the teacher. It doesn't matter if a TA is grading it or not. Teachers usually go over what their TA grades anyhow.
11/28/2007 3:36:01 PM
^ Have you been a TA?
11/28/2007 3:45:37 PM
Being a TA is not relevant to understanding how things work in general.
11/28/2007 3:47:15 PM
11/28/2007 3:53:35 PM
Yes, in more cases than not the teachers signed off on anything other than daily grades for the classes I had TA's in.It was always the case, and explicitly stated, that any disputes should be taken to the teacher.
11/28/2007 3:55:36 PM
^ The grade in question was a weekly grade, and I can confirm--since I have five semesters' experience as a TA and with other TAs--that those are overwhelmingly not checked. FYI.
11/28/2007 3:58:23 PM
In that case it is entirely up to the student to address the issue with the teacher. Do you not agree?I mean, I paid for my education with hard earned money (and debt!) and expect to get what I deserve. I take as a personal offense if someone tries to take my money and throw it away, and letting someone give you a bad grade maliciously is just that.
11/28/2007 4:00:42 PM
double post[Edited on November 28, 2007 at 4:02 PM. Reason : .]
11/28/2007 4:02:28 PM
Yes, he could have taken it up with the professor--and he may have suffered even lower grades as a consequence. Look, man, this has happened to me. Please don't pretend that it doesn't ever happen. I think some professors view it as Whac-A-Mole. You stick your head up; you get "othered," which is a term for what happens when some people deal with supposedly "difficult" people that may not actually be difficult; and you suffer the consequences. Often it's not an A to an F type of reduction, but just enough to make it hurt. In the worst cases, the "punishment" moves beyond the academic into the disciplinary realm. I'm telling you that it happens and I've seen it.
11/28/2007 4:09:08 PM
I'm sure it happens sometimes, on both sides of the political spectrum. I don't think it's common NOR right for either side to do it though.
11/28/2007 4:11:38 PM
^ Well, we can certainly agree that it's not right for "either side" to grade unfairly. But I'm not aware of a rash of right-wing incidents of this sort, are you? If you have this information, please enlighten me--but there is an organization and Web site that deals primarily with left-wing incidents of this sort, since leftists are overwhelmingly committing these types of violations. http://www.thefire.org/
11/28/2007 4:22:13 PM
11/28/2007 4:26:15 PM
11/29/2007 4:47:36 AM
I have a hard time understanding how this guy's anecdote proves anything. He did not site a single example from papers that he wrote but rather gave us a "Gawsh y'all, they ain't nice to us conservatives here". The dude was making all of these bad grades yet seemed to graduate a year early. Hmmm.
11/29/2007 7:44:37 AM
11/29/2007 8:22:07 AM
^^ Please stop the personal attack on me and trolling any thread that I post in. ^ That's none of your concern, and your post has nothing to do with the post at issue or the thread topic. Please stop the personal attack on me.BTW, I find it damned peculiar that some of you are willing to accept specific experience in a given area--such as Duke's experience with waterboarding--if you agree with the user's position on a particular issue. But if you disagree with a user's position, you view his experience as invalid or you somehow diminish that experience. Damned peculiar. [Edited on November 30, 2007 at 12:41 PM. Reason : .]
11/30/2007 12:38:14 PM
Student Sues Teacher For Anti-Christian Comments
12/18/2007 1:26:16 PM
are the rolly eyes there because it's a retarded lawsuitbecause they should be
12/18/2007 1:30:23 PM
12/18/2007 1:31:08 PM
Ah, it took only about four minutes for someone to use the word "retarded." Brilliant commentary.[/sarcasm]
12/18/2007 1:34:29 PM
^^^]
12/18/2007 1:34:57 PM
so... how pro-litigious are you exactly?maybe you and john edwards should get together and have a powwow
12/18/2007 1:35:59 PM
12/18/2007 1:53:52 PM