Comments on: From the annals of the academy: Prof sues students for criticizing her http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:28:56 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: DrFrancis http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-28399 DrFrancis Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:57:34 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-28399 I am a hispainc professor of anatomy and neuroanatomy, with a strong accent, and get decent (>90%) reviews every quarter. I dont think ethnicity is the issue here. She should take the reviews with a grain of salt and try to improve on the content of class and her student interaction. I am a hispainc professor of anatomy and neuroanatomy, with a strong accent, and get decent (>90%) reviews every quarter. I dont think ethnicity is the issue here. She should take the reviews with a grain of salt and try to improve on the content of class and her student interaction.

]]> By: fmn2628 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-28397 fmn2628 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:40:47 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-28397 When a professor passes a class review, and you express your opinion on their class from your lived experience, shoudn't you be protected under the first ammendment?Is it even remotely possible she really sucks as a professor? If so, shoudn't she take these reviews and tweak her class to self improve? Isn't that what they are all about anyway? Maybe redesign the class review so positive constructive sugestions come for each critiscism recieved...just an idea. When a professor passes a class review, and you express your opinion on their class from your lived experience, shoudn’t you be protected under the first ammendment?Is it even remotely possible she really sucks as a professor? If so, shoudn’t she take these reviews and tweak her class to self improve? Isn’t that what they are all about anyway?
Maybe redesign the class review so positive constructive sugestions come for each critiscism recieved…just an idea.

]]> By: question http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-3129 question Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:38:48 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-3129 I wonder why Roger wrote "Prof sues students" when the "prof" had not sued anyone. A tenuous grasp on the truth, perhaps. I wonder why Roger wrote “Prof sues students” when the “prof” had not sued anyone. A tenuous grasp on the truth, perhaps.

]]> By: This Is Common Sense » Blog Archive » An F for Academic Freedom http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-3075 This Is Common Sense » Blog Archive » An F for Academic Freedom Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:04:39 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-3075 [...] Kimball has the scoop over at PajamasMedia.com. He quotes Professor V’s minatory email to her students. In it she merely says she is suing [...] [...] Kimball has the scoop over at PajamasMedia.com. He quotes Professor V’s minatory email to her students. In it she merely says she is suing [...]

]]> By: the smarter you are, the less likely you are to believe in God (or know how to operate a doorknob) « A Darkling Glass http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-2133 the smarter you are, the less likely you are to believe in God (or know how to operate a doorknob) « A Darkling Glass Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:40:11 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-2133 [...] you ever actually met a university academic? They’re some of the most functionally useless people on the face of the Earth. Oh, sure, [...] [...] you ever actually met a university academic? They’re some of the most functionally useless people on the face of the Earth. Oh, sure, [...]

]]> By: Common Sensible » An F for Academic Freedom http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-1924 Common Sensible » An F for Academic Freedom Tue, 27 May 2008 03:35:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-1924 [...] Kimball has the scoop over at PajamasMedia.com. He quotes Professor V’s minatory email to her students. In it she merely says she is suing [...] [...] Kimball has the scoop over at PajamasMedia.com. He quotes Professor V’s minatory email to her students. In it she merely says she is suing [...]

]]> By: An F for Academic Freedom http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-1917 An F for Academic Freedom Mon, 26 May 2008 16:20:45 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-1917 [...] Kimball has the scoop over at PajamasMedia.com. He quotes Professor V’s minatory email to her students. In it she merely says she is suing [...] [...] Kimball has the scoop over at PajamasMedia.com. He quotes Professor V’s minatory email to her students. In it she merely says she is suing [...]

]]> By: ravichandran http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-1722 ravichandran Thu, 15 May 2008 10:51:50 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-1722 Tongue in Cheek Easy to Seek As far as a creek Call it so sneak Humble and sleek Egg on, future bleak Rue it forever meek (This acrostic gives my impressions as a Tongue in Cheek
Easy to Seek
As far as a creek
Call it so sneak
Humble and sleek
Egg on, future bleak
Rue it forever meek

(This acrostic gives my impressions as a

]]> By: Sudesh http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-1643 Sudesh Wed, 07 May 2008 06:46:22 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-1643 I do not agree with Priya Venkatesan’s conduct, sure. Not because that there are no subtle racism involved in that issue. I feel it’s not ethical that teachers sue their students, whatever the reasons may be. Also, after reading all the related stuff, one may almost decide that she did not fully deserve a teacher’s post. Well, I am not sure. One has to see her classes to determine that. But, it surprises me that almost all e-mails (except one) posted here chose to rant against her. None touched the conduct of the students! Many of them ridiculed her ethnic identity and its American-preferred stereo-types. They are ‘all-knower’ as far as castes, cows and caupeenas (the loin cloth), but innocent of KKKs and red necks! Some of them were amused of her grammar and would like to see her back in a preparatory school. Somewhere else (the Dartmouth Review?) I saw a post by an anonymous person, urging the lot gathered there that had they been listened to PV’s accent and especially her voice they would have formed a ‘sound’ judgment of their teacher’s qualities. It must have been by one of the rebellious students, I guess. One female student, the most challenging one, asks her how many ‘T’s are there in ‘Ghattaca’, and PV charges that it was a reference on her ‘tenure track’ status. And the chairman of the writing program, who was present there, hastily answers the student “two ‘T’s”. The aggressive male student who led the mutiny, wholesomely took over her position as a teacher to give a highly flourished definition on feminism and duly collected the bounty as applause from the class for doing so. He intended to teach the teacher, the tiny, the browny, the eastern, no!, the South-East-Asian, no!, the Indian alien-female who usurped and appropriated English language. And he has a political leader who repeatedly boastful in keeping up ‘nookeeler’ for nuclear! There are also posts here saying that how bad an Indian in the garbs of professors/doctors. Well, why do you employ them if they are so bad? (I am not from USA.) There must be some valid reasons if one still boasts that America is a competent capitalistic democracy, no? I think this is why she is going for a litigation, and in a bad manner, in a truly unethical way. But what about the kids you prefer not to talk about? Are they going to write more complicated po.mo. stuff? I do not agree with Priya Venkatesan’s conduct, sure. Not because that there are no subtle racism involved in that issue. I feel it’s not ethical that teachers sue their students, whatever the reasons may be. Also, after reading all the related stuff, one may almost decide that she did not fully deserve a teacher’s post. Well, I am not sure. One has to see her classes to determine that.
But, it surprises me that almost all e-mails (except one) posted here chose to rant against her. None touched the conduct of the students! Many of them ridiculed her ethnic identity and its American-preferred stereo-types. They are ‘all-knower’ as far as castes, cows and caupeenas (the loin cloth), but innocent of KKKs and red necks! Some of them were amused of her grammar and would like to see her back in a preparatory school.
Somewhere else (the Dartmouth Review?) I saw a post by an anonymous person, urging the lot gathered there that had they been listened to PV’s accent and especially her voice they would have formed a ‘sound’ judgment of their teacher’s qualities. It must have been by one of the rebellious students, I guess. One female student, the most challenging one, asks her how many ‘T’s are there in ‘Ghattaca’, and PV charges that it was a reference on her ‘tenure track’ status. And the chairman of the writing program, who was present there, hastily answers the student “two ‘T’s”. The aggressive male student who led the mutiny, wholesomely took over her position as a teacher to give a highly flourished definition on feminism and duly collected the bounty as applause from the class for doing so. He intended to teach the teacher, the tiny, the browny, the eastern, no!, the South-East-Asian, no!, the Indian alien-female who usurped and appropriated English language. And he has a political leader who repeatedly boastful in keeping up ‘nookeeler’ for nuclear! There are also posts here saying that how bad an Indian in the garbs of professors/doctors. Well, why do you employ them if they are so bad? (I am not from USA.) There must be some valid reasons if one still boasts that America is a competent capitalistic democracy, no?
I think this is why she is going for a litigation, and in a bad manner, in a truly unethical way.
But what about the kids you prefer not to talk about? Are they going to write more complicated po.mo. stuff?

]]> By: The paranoid professor: yet another reason to attend college online « The Limits of Experience http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/comment-page-3/#comment-1632 The paranoid professor: yet another reason to attend college online « The Limits of Experience Tue, 06 May 2008 01:39:26 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/04/29/from-the-annals-of-the-academy-prof-sues-students-for-criticizing-her/#comment-1632 [...] another reason to attend college online Jump to Comments Rogers’s Rules reports on the curious case of Prof. Priya Venkatesan, who has threatened to sue undergrads who gave her negative marks in their evaluations of her [...] [...] another reason to attend college online Jump to Comments Rogers’s Rules reports on the curious case of Prof. Priya Venkatesan, who has threatened to sue undergrads who gave her negative marks in their evaluations of her [...]

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