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VA TECH PROF FIRED FOR SAYING "POW"

[+] ballot by aya
ACTIVE Apr 23,2007 - Tue Apr 22, 08

BOSTON - An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said "pow."

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The five-minute demonstration at Emmanuel College on Wednesday, two days after a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus, included a discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public's "celebration of victimhood," said the professor, Nicholas Winset.

During the demonstration, Winset pretended to shoot some students. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset to illustrate his point that the gunman might have been stopped had another student or faculty member been armed.

"A classroom is supposed to be a place for academic exploration," Winset, who taught financial accounting, told the Boston Herald.

He said administrators had asked the faculty to engage students on the issue. But on Friday, he got a letter saying he was fired and ordering him to stay off campus.

Winset, 37, argued that the Catholic liberal arts school was stifling free discussion by firing him, and he said the move would have a "chilling effect" on open debate. He posted an 18-minute video on the online site YouTube defending his action.

The college issued a statement saying: "Emmanuel College has clear standards of classroom and campus conduct, and does not in any way condone the use of discriminatory or obscene language."

Student Junny Lee, 19, told The Boston Globe that most students didn't appear to find Winset's demonstration offensive.

ok, so WTF?

yeah, WTF?

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COMMENTS:
Voted : yeah, WTF?
people take offense to such stupid things these days. maybe it was innappropriate, but firing the guy? gimme a f-ing break. i wanna see the school's conduct code for myself.

by ThisIsNate on Mon Apr 23, 07 12:01pm [+]

When I read the article in your description, I think it was a teacher at Emmanuel College in Boston that was fired, not a professor from VA tech.

It does seem a bit harsh - to fire a teacher without a warning over something that can be interpreted very subjectively.

by audreyanne on Mon Apr 23, 07 1:26pm [+]

Only three more horsemen to come..

by kingAlfredTheGreat on Mon Apr 23, 07 2:37pm [+]

Voted : yeah, WTF?
Feels like hypersensitivity to me. Though the guy really should've had beeter tact in the choice of sound effects.

by Truthseeker013 on Mon Apr 23, 07 3:19pm [+]

Uh, KAG, that's just two. One's been living in D.C. for six years now.

by Truthseeker013 on Mon Apr 23, 07 3:21pm [+]

Voted : yeah, WTF?
What an evil man daring to discuss what may have happend if the victims were armed.

by lowerclassbrats on Mon Apr 23, 07 10:25pm [+]

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