Never been more proud.

[Grove]

This is a link to an editorial a colleague wrote for our university newspaper. I want to share it with you and encourage you to continue sharing it with others. I've worked with him for over 5 years and am constantly impressed by his strength in conviction and his willingness to speak up for others, but I've never been more proud of him than I am now.

http://www.thedaonline.com/opinion/guest-column-enough-is-enough-1.2625270

 

[Puffy]

Great article, thanks for sharing Grove. (:

 

[Trebuchet]

No one should have to face that. I'm surprised students aren't expelled for hate speech, which would have been automatic where I went to college.

It is certainly nice to see someone deciding not to be a victim. Go sociology professor!

And it's true about neutrality strengthening evil.

 

[crippli]

No one should have to face that. I'm surprised students aren't expelled for hate speech, which would have been automatic where I went to college.

I'm surprised there isn't prison sentence for this?. You get prison sentence for sexual harassment? At least a fine. And that's like stealing candy in the grocery store compared to armed robbery.

Also interesting to note the names of the suicides are all male, I think? Are males weaker psychological to deal with hate? Or are these skills not learned?

 

[Puffy]

^ Oh no, I'm getting flashbacks of the film Ilsa again.

I don't know, I mean firstly only a few names were mentioned, it's not a very broad statistic. But secondly, as an example, bi-sexuality in females is something *I have witnessed* to be more acceptable in my culture than in males. For some reason I think of that film "Scott Pilgrim" (even though I really don't like it) where one of the evil ex's is a girl the female protagonist experimented with for a while. Bi-curious = Bi-FURIOUS. That and songs like "I kissed a girl" kind of give that impression, in the media, that it's fine, or even almost expected, that younger girls might experiment with each other.

There's no song called "I kissed a guy", really. I've experimented with another guy, and I remember talking about it with a few people. I was kind of surprised that the general reaction was: "just never speak about this again." Which was a little disappointing to be honest. It's a bit more taboo for a guy to be bi-curious, so maybe I can see homosexual guys getting a bit more stick, and perhaps that reflecting in the tendency of the article. Again it's 'perhaps' because in all honesty I just don't know enough about it really.

 

[EditorOne]

I'm astonished students could openly verbally assault anyone, without consequence, anywhere. It is a violation of every conduct code I've ever seen, and therefore an issue with penalties written down somewhere. Forget that it's about sexual orientation; publicly berating anyone in any setting except a political speaker being heckled would have been a suspension even at the end of the Little Ice Age when I was in college. The professor should simply yank the chain and let the machinery work. He's got 300 witnesses, it sounds like. An essay is nice and saying enough is enough is nice, but does he not have the power already in his hands to rectify this evil? I kept waiting for the sentence that said "And so the issue is now before the dean" or whatever. We can point out how people ought to behave until we all turn blue, but it's not like anyone in his position is helpless: There's rules for decorum and behavior and there are mechanisms to invoke them.

 

[Grove]

I understand and share your outrage that the student (to date) has not faced any consequences. Honestly, I don't know what regulations (if any) are in place here to address the issue in that manner. This occurred only a few days ago, perhaps the visible cogs haven't started turning yet.

 

[Grove]

Cogs are turning.

http://www.thedaonline.com/news/university-investigates-harassment-of-professor-1.2630455