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   In , on 10/15/2004   
      at 02:03 AM, "Doc Martian"  said:   
      
   >Subj: Ruth Nolan of College of the Desert is using her Creative Writing   
   >class as a political soapbox.   
      
   >She has spent at least half of five sessions yammering about the Iraq war   
   > instead of anything remotely related to Creative Writing. Today, when I   
   >responded at a rational, cognitive level to her political diatribe, she   
   >cut  me off three times. So, I stood up, and as I was leaving the class,   
   >she said  "goodbye, Kevin" and I responded that it wasn't right for her   
   >to be using  the class as a political soapbox, at which point she said...   
   >well, everyone  except you (the sole vocal divergent opinion) is enjoying   
   >it and she  continued yammering... I said YabitaYabitaYabitaYabita as her   
   >empty words  continued and left the class. When I returned after cooling   
   >down 10 minutes  later, she said "you disrupted the class and i'm asking   
   >you to leave or i'll  call security". I left, and promptly dropped the   
   >class. She disrupted the  class when she interrupted her political   
   >diatribe to address a student who  was peacefully exiting her forum. A   
   >college classroom should not be used as  a political soapbox. She has   
   >used at least 4 hours of class time to discuss  her views on the Iraq   
   >war, usually while talking vociferously over any  divergent opinion. I   
   >have spent at least 20 hours of my life attending and  preparing for her   
   >class, my having to drop it means a loss of my time and  effort and I   
   >think at bare minimum the College should effort to erase my W.  I'm   
   >willing to accept other suggestions that result in a grade for the class   
   >other then W. While at other times Ms. Nolan has allowed divergent   
   >opinions,  today, with perhaps 10 people remaining of a class of 25, she   
   >made her  singleminded and unswerving political beliefs (with dutiful   
   >echoes from  similarly biased students) the sole allowed voice in the   
   >class. Please  provide a solution that is equable both to a student who   
   >has had his time  sucked by a professor who shuts down any divergent   
   >thought and to a college  who has at bare minimum poorly screened it's   
   >faculty.   
      
   >Thank you,   
   >Kevin Anderson   
      
      
   You're failing the course aren't you Kevin!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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