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I see.

Oh, cool! So we can sue people when their stupidity reaches critical mass?

Please excuse me, I have a lot of paperwork to do. I hope there's no statute of limitations on this, it could go back years.

For you youngsters who grew up under Political Correctness, this is exactly how it began.

Pseudo-intellectual bullshiat. I fault Dartmouth only for not screening her better.

FTFA: "Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct."

Looks like the Bush administration has found their next Science advisor.

Her attitude is what the Sokal hoax was intended to parody.

What's her Fark handle?

Then, after consulting a physician about "intellectual distress," she cancelled classes for a week.

well, I know what my next excuse for calling into work will be...

/really?
//had I known this was real, I would have gotten out of 75% of my college assignments/tests/finals

these are the kinds of people that i enjoy destroying, just for the lulz.

'scuse me while i whip off my homespun cloak and destroy this mouthbreather. It's a bad metaphor because i say it is.

/obscure?

oldebayer: Looks like the Bush administration has found their next Science advisor.

nicely played.

because their "anti-intellectualism" violates her civil rights

Hmmm... I'm guessing she's not very smart. I'm not even sure where to begin with this.

Ms. Venkatesan lectured in freshman composition, intended to introduce undergraduates to the rigors of expository argument. "My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful,"

Must be her first time teaching freshman if this upset her.

"They'd argue with your ideas." This caused "subversiveness," a principle English professors usually favor.

That's not a bad thing. You should know enough about your subject to make things interesting and you should know enough classroom management to keep the lecture moving when you need to.

Ms. Venkatesan's scholarly specialty is "science studies," which, as she wrote in a journal article last year, "teaches that scientific knowledge has suspect access to truth." She continues: "Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct."

Especially when teaching a controversial idea that will probably be perceived as counter-intuitive, inflammatory, and an assault on many people's world views.

Students told me that most of the "problems" owed to her impenetrable lectures and various eruptions when students indicated skepticism of literary theory. She counters that such skepticism was "intolerant of ideas" and "questioned my knowledge in very inappropriate ways."

Again, this shouldn't be a problem. The students should be questioning, that's a sign that they're listening. The eruptions should be handled in-class. If the students were too disruptive for her to handle, then there are disciplinary measures that can be used. If they're questioning your knowledge of a subject, then you haven't properly set up your ethos.

Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was "fascist demagoguery." Then, after consulting a physician about "intellectual distress," she canceled classes for a week. Thus the pending litigation.

A teacher that uses the word "fascist" to describe his/her classroom has serious problems.

poor course evaluations from critical students.

I didn't see this in the article.

Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of "French narrative theory" that it amounted to a hostile working environment.

Having to learn "French narrative theory" is tantamount to having to survive in a hostile working environment for the students.

Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was "fascist demagoguery."

Awww, the poor professor had to try to defend her ideas when challenged. Poor girl.

KaponoFor3: Awww, the poor professor had to try to defend her ideas when challenged. Poor girl.

wait, shouldn't she be fairly well practiced in this..I mean with a thesis, dissertation, and hopefully a few published and presented articles?

Wow...so much post-modernist garbage coming from her, I'm surprised that she can even put together a coherent sentence.

I'm stunned. I don't even know what to make of this "professor."

The_Synergism: KaponoFor3: Awww, the poor professor had to try to defend her ideas when challenged. Poor girl.

wait, shouldn't she be fairly well practiced in this..I mean with a thesis, dissertation, and hopefully a few published and presented articles?

Dude, she's a post-modernist. She doesn't need to think rationally or coherently.

"My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful," she told Tyler Brace of the Dartmouth Review. "They'd argue with your ideas." This caused "subversiveness," a principle English professors usually favor.

Questioning ideas is what college is all about.

Ms. Venkatesan's scholarly specialty is "science studies," which, as she wrote in a journal article last year, "teaches that scientific knowledge has suspect access to truth." She continues: "Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct."

I'll wager she knows nothing about science.

Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on "ecofeminism," which holds, in part, that scientific advancements benefit the patriarchy but leave women out.

Where do people come up with this shiat?

I once wrote a term paper for a lit-crit course where I "deconstructed" the MTV program "Pimp My Ride." A typical passage: "Each episode is a text of inescapable complexity . . . Our received notions of what constitutes a ride are constantly subverted and undermined." It received an A.

bwa ha ha ha ha ha... very nice.

Wow... this crazy coont shouldn't be anyways near a classroom.

here is one of her books. I think she just makes crap up and no one bothers to challenge her because they'd get shouted down by her as being anti-womyn, sexist, racist, or whatever.

dj_bigbird: Dude, she's a woman post-modernist. She doesn't need to think rationally or coherently.

ftfy

dj_bigbird: Wow...so much post-modernist

dj_bigbird: Dude, she's a post-modernist


Somebody's got a new favorite catch phrase... very post-modernist.

As a Dartmouth '91, I'm glad to see the students standing up for themselves and running off idiotic professors like this.

As an aside, I agree that many humanities professors can be baffled by BS, unlike the sciences which are largely empirical.

To wit, on and Art History final exam, I was required to write on a painting I had never laid eyes on. I began a stream of consciousness rant which included the phrase, which was starred by the grader, "brush work which is flaccid, yet subtle."

I got an A.

/Vox Clamantis in Deserto

Isn't university where you are supposed to develop your own ideas and debate them with knowledgeable people who help foster those ideas into something? Or have they been lying to us the entire time?

What's fascinating is that all these legal claims she's chucking around are baseless...even as she's alleged them, it doesn't look like she could survive summary judgment because it doesn't appear she's properly alleged any actionable claims on the part of the school or students.

She seems like a relatively egotistic and potentially unintelligent person who was completely caught off-guard for some reason when her students weren't eager to lap up her wisdom.

It's a freshman English class...give me a break. Even the people who will shortly thereafter become English majors aren't fully on-board during their first fall semester.

netweavr: Ms. Venkatesan lectured in freshman composition, intended to introduce undergraduates to the rigors of expository argument. "My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful,"

Freshperson, please!

My lord, I love PCU.

Dear post-modernist ecofeminist shiatbag with the hurt feelers:

Just because there is indeed an anti-intellectual bias in many places of this country right now doesn't mean it's ever going to affect you. That bias is against people who actually have a cogent thought now and again. Thanks for playing and, oh, if it's not too much trouble, please die in a fire.

Well, if she is so good at "science studies" why the hell is she teaching freshman composition?
/If you can't stand the heat, you shouldn't be in the kitchen
//Only thing I find disgusting about my job is the attitude of some of my Humanities and Social Sciences Colleagues

mysticcat: As a Dartmouth '91, I'm glad to see the students standing up for themselves and running off idiotic professors like this.

As an aside, I agree that many humanities professors can be baffled by BS, unlike the sciences which are largely empirical.

To wit, on and Art History final exam, I was required to write on a painting I had never laid eyes on. I began a stream of consciousness rant which included the phrase, which was starred by the grader, "brush work which is flaccid, yet subtle."

I got an A.

/Vox Clamantis in Deserto

Anedoctal experience. I studied Philosophy with focus on symbolic logic and linguistics. My profs wouldn't tolerate such shenanigans.

/colgate '92

FTFA: "They'd argue with your ideas."

Wow. Imagine students questioning your ideas - it's almost like they're practicing critical thinking! Crazy!

Diogenes: Anedoctal experience. I studied Philosophy with focus on symbolic logic and linguistics. My profs wouldn't tolerate such shenanigans.

Well, systematic philosophy is significantly more concrete than social sciences like Art History. After all, symbolic logic is purely testable, while linguistics has a massive grounding in empirically testable hypotheses.

Ms. Venkatesan's scholarly specialty is "science studies," which, as she wrote in a journal article last year, "teaches that scientific knowledge has suspect access to truth." She continues: "Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct."

Translation: I suck so bad at math that I had to major in English rather than take those scary science classes. Now I'm scared that I'll be revealed as a sham by freshmen, so I'll chill dissent with a lawsuit.

FROM HERE (new window)
Priya Venkatesan, Ph.D. ~ After obtaining a BA from Dartmouth College, I have an MS in Genetics from UC Davis and a PhD in Literature from UC San Diego. My first book, Molecular Biology in Narrative Form, was just released. My current position is as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, which will form the basis of my latest manuscript, A Postmodernist in the Laboratory.

Molecular Biology in Narrative Form

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and so forth

oldebayer: Looks like the Bush administration has found their next Science advisor.

With the exception that she's more than likely a leftist piece of crap.

I would say that I was surprised at her behavior, but she sounds like every other whiny, crybaby Ultra-Lefty who doesn't get their way.

Genetics is a language, analogous to a mathematical algorithm of base 4 (a,g,c, t/a) and base 20 (amino acids), etc.

There is plenty of work being done in bioinformatics incorporating linguisitic theory into genomics.

"Postmodern French Narrative" ?? That seems like an artificial conformation of math-neutral statistics to a pre-determined mould, but I'd be more than willing to read her crap.

Still, why she is teaching an introductory English class, who knows. Prolly required in her stipend package

rocinante721: Still, why she is teaching an introductory English class, who knows. Prolly required in her stipend package

Maybe it's a "weed out" course. Except in this case it's used to weed out the crappy prof instead of the students.

dj_bigbird: anti-womyn wimmin

Pet peeve.

I had a professor like that. Enough complaining got her fired (well, technically, she was forced to take a sabbatical until her "visiting professor" term was up).

Kids, if you have a prof who is genuinely bad (and I don't mean difficult or challenging), don't be afraid to organize against them. If nobody does it, eventually they get tenure, and then you're SOL.

This is why women should stay in the kitchen and not be allowed to read....or drive.....or work. Life would be so simple. I am running for office on this platform

One more reason to detest most "academics" ...

"They'd argue with your ideas."


...so... It's ok to think, as long as you think what they want you to think? ... Nah, that can't be it, only one group has the market on Hypocrisy...

drkleindmd: This is why women should stay in the kitchen and not be allowed to read....or drive.....or work. Life would be so simple. I am running for office on this platform

Your newletter. Sign me up.

Subby: never finished high school

Dartmouth still counts as Ivy League these days?

PacManDreaming: oldebayer: Looks like the Bush administration has found their next Science advisor.

With the exception that she's more than likely a leftist piece of crap./i>

Yeah, but the political spectrum is horseshoe-shaped, not linear. Intellectually there's not much difference between her and a Bush science advisor.

If I'm here and you're here, isn't our time?

How many feminists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

None. Screwing in a lightbulb objectifies women.


(Alternative punch line: THAT'S NOT FUNNY!)

Professor threaten

submitter fail

and that is the typical response. You criticize the "ivory tower" culture and you are "anti intellectual".

She should know better than to trot this tired shiat out at Dartmouth of all places. The Dartmouth Review will not let this kind of silliness pass.

/Go Big Green!
//Flush this turd.

FTA "Scientific facts do not correspond to a natural reality but conform to a social construct."

I would argue with her also. She's not talking about theory or hypotheses here but the facts themselves. Nice thing about the scientific method, it thrives on new ways to collect information. Bullshiat English teachers (and I had my share as an undergrad) thrive on expressing their personal opinions. Well she can hire attorneys to express her opinions in court. Everyone has the right to pay for their day in court. Pauper to be.

English professors are often out of their gourds.

Social scientists are the village idiots of the academic world.