Comments on: Update: The Professor Constantine Email http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/ Thu, 17 May 2012 05:24:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49565 Anonymous Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:37:46 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49565 As a former democrat/liberal (ah, those were the days of self absorption..) and now a mature independant who graduated from an Ivy, I face the daunting challenge of helping my sons find the university that can continue to help them develop into happy successful men. I think it's impossible given the type of upside down, arse backward mentality that permiates academia today. This woman no doubt would not have been hired if she were white (judging by her undergrad schooling)and she does not deserve to be in this position. Is it just me or am I seeing this over and over again in Universities (the more elite, the more problematic). Cry wolf, play the race card, dilute the importance of your University. Watch the enrollment drop, watch the endowments dry up...lower the standards...Maybe community college isn't so bad afterall...God help us all. As a former democrat/liberal (ah, those were the days of self absorption..) and now a mature independant who graduated from an Ivy, I face the daunting challenge of helping my sons find the university that can continue to help them develop into happy successful men. I think it’s impossible given the type of upside down, arse backward mentality that permiates academia today. This woman no doubt would not have been hired if she were white (judging by her undergrad schooling)and she does not deserve to be in this position. Is it just me or am I seeing this over and over again in Universities (the more elite, the more problematic). Cry wolf, play the race card, dilute the importance of your University. Watch the enrollment drop, watch the endowments dry up…lower the standards…Maybe community college isn’t so bad afterall…God help us all.

]]> By: One fact... http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49511 One fact... Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:00:41 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49511 would be that you just formulated that claim from the comfort of your own dorm room. I mean, if she lied about her academic work, then she MUST have lied about not only about the noose but ALSO about anything she has said that has been remotely related to race...right? "pesky Asian" "entitled bitch" Good work, dingleberry. would be that you just formulated that claim from the comfort of your own dorm room.

I mean, if she lied about her academic work, then she MUST have lied about not only about the noose but ALSO about anything she has said that has been remotely related to race…right?

“pesky Asian”
“entitled bitch”

Good work, dingleberry.

]]> By: Really now http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49505 Really now Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:30:53 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49505 What would these 'facts' be? That the white man is trying to keep down the black person? Or that she did in fact hang the noose herself, to get rid of that pesky Asian who was trying to stop some entitled bitch from stealing her work. What would these ‘facts’ be?

That the white man is trying to keep down the black person? Or that she did in fact hang the noose herself, to get rid of that pesky Asian who was trying to stop some entitled bitch from stealing her work.

]]> By: Assumption http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49504 Assumption Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:58:57 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49504 Assumption, Assumption, Assumption, Assumption, Assumption. I'm glad I know the facts! Assumption, Assumption, Assumption, Assumption, Assumption.

I’m glad I know the facts!

]]> By: McFister http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49492 McFister Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:18:53 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49492 The plagiarism came first. Then the noose. The plagiarism came first. Then the noose.

]]> By: Fool http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49482 Fool Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:13:20 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49482 What are the assumptions that are being made, that she is a plagiarist who stole the work of students and colleagues? Or the parts that miraculously during an investigation of her there was a convenient "hate crime" to deflect suspicion and make herself into a martyr. Pointless is you just your way of saying that you are going to ignore the all too likely possibility she set herself up as a victim and the reality of her shoddy academic work. What are the assumptions that are being made, that she is a plagiarist who stole the work of students and colleagues? Or the parts that miraculously during an investigation of her there was a convenient “hate crime” to deflect suspicion and make herself into a martyr.

Pointless is you just your way of saying that you are going to ignore the all too likely possibility she set herself up as a victim and the reality of her shoddy academic work.

]]> By: also http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49479 also Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:09:47 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49479 In the scenario that she didn't hang the noose on her own door, don't you think it might be natural, if you were a minority, to jump to the conclusion that this plagiarism thing was about race if you had already been threatened so maliciously? Maybe she isn't thinking straight and maybe she DID plagiarize but if she didn't hang the noose on her own door then I could understand how she might lose her head and making that race association. In the scenario that she didn’t hang the noose on her own door, don’t you think it might be natural, if you were a minority, to jump to the conclusion that this plagiarism thing was about race if you had already been threatened so maliciously? Maybe she isn’t thinking straight and maybe she DID plagiarize but if she didn’t hang the noose on her own door then I could understand how she might lose her head and making that race association.

]]> By: well http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49478 well Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:06:45 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49478 Hold up now... I don't think anyone has enough information to make the sorts of assumptions being made on this post... they obviously don't release the juiciest details to the public so I feel like this is a pointless thread Hold up now… I don’t think anyone has enough information to make the sorts of assumptions being made on this post… they obviously don’t release the juiciest details to the public so I feel like this is a pointless thread

]]> By: bullshit http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49470 bullshit Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:46:59 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49470 can't wait till the hunger strike kids hold a hunger strike in their defense ahhh social justice will be served! can’t wait till the hunger strike kids hold a hunger strike in their defense

ahhh social justice will be served!

]]> By: McFister http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49454 McFister Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:19:26 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49454 "People willing to stand for the truth of what they are saying do not require indemnification." Not true if the person is speaking about somebody who has a history of filing nuisance lawsuits against her own department chair. “People willing to stand for the truth of what they are saying do not require indemnification.”

Not true if the person is speaking about somebody who has a history of filing nuisance lawsuits against her own department chair.

]]> By: ughh http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49451 ughh Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:41:46 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49451 "an obvious act of Affirmative Action" ughhh Times and Teachers, as if there weren't completely qualified African American candidates for Professorship! I don't know whether Professor Constantine was qualified, but there are certainly are competitive, well-educated, intelligent African-American candidates out there that deserve Professorship, with or without Affirmative Action. “an obvious act of Affirmative Action”

ughhh Times and Teachers, as if there weren’t completely qualified African American candidates for Professorship! I don’t know whether Professor Constantine was qualified, but there are certainly are competitive, well-educated, intelligent African-American candidates out there that deserve Professorship, with or without Affirmative Action.

]]> By: its because http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49449 its because Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:16:10 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49449 affirmative action doesnt always capture the members of underrepresented minorities who are truly worthy of a chance to reach higher than they could given only the resources available to them. Instead, we see underqualified individuals from affluent neighborhoods do little work in school, get poor grades, and then get into an Ivy even though they don't have the untapped potential that affirmative action hopes they do. Instead, socioeconomic affirmative action should be implemented. That would better target the individuals who may need a boost because they simply didn't have the same tutors, AP classes, etc. that the private school kids did. affirmative action doesnt always capture the members of underrepresented minorities who are truly worthy of a chance to reach higher than they could given only the resources available to them. Instead, we see underqualified individuals from affluent neighborhoods do little work in school, get poor grades, and then get into an Ivy even though they don’t have the untapped potential that affirmative action hopes they do.

Instead, socioeconomic affirmative action should be implemented. That would better target the individuals who may need a boost because they simply didn’t have the same tutors, AP classes, etc. that the private school kids did.

]]> By: overheard in Dodge http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49448 overheard in Dodge Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:11:42 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49448 "I mean, I'm not necessarily saying that she put the noose there herself, but..." (couldn't hear the rest) Yes, things are definitely getting ugly. “I mean, I’m not necessarily saying that she put the noose there herself, but…” (couldn’t hear the rest)

Yes, things are definitely getting ugly.

]]> By: spot on http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49447 spot on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:44:32 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49447 just quoting for emphasis here: "Does anyone else think that Affirmative Action means our immediate assumption is to doubt the credentials of all highly placed African-Americans in the workforce? That seems contrary to its aims." I think you're absolutely right. just quoting for emphasis here: “Does anyone else think that Affirmative Action means our immediate assumption is to doubt the credentials of all highly placed African-Americans in the workforce? That seems contrary to its aims.”

I think you’re absolutely right.

]]> By: Whoa Whoa Whoa http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email/#comment-49446 Whoa Whoa Whoa Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:41:30 +0000 http://bwog.com/2008/02/20/update-the-professor-constantine-email#comment-49446 There's a reality other than BWOG? There’s a reality other than BWOG?

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