Reed College, a small liberal arts school in Portland, Oregon, attracts students who want to speak their mind. But when Jeremiah True wouldn’t stop talking about his controversial opinions on sexual assault in his required freshman humanities course, his professor banned him from the discussion segment of the class for the remainder of the semester.  The 19-year-old told BuzzFeed News that his professor, Pancho Savery, warned him repeatedly that his views made his classmates uncomfortable before he told him in a March 14 email that he was no longer welcome to participate in the “conference” section of his Humanities 110 lecture-seminar class. True, whose Facebook page says he studies “How to Annoy People” at Reed, takes pride in challenging his classmates’ opinions. “I know many people aren’t comfortable with taking the stances I do, but I’m not a sheep,” he said. True said he sparred with classmates over discussion topics related to ancient Greece and Rome, such as the “patriarchal” belief that logic is more important than emotion and his analysis of Lucretia’s rape. But it was his questioning of the widely shared and often debated statistic that 1 in 5 women in college are sexually assaulted — it doesn’t serve “actual rape victims” to “overinflate” numbers, he said — and his rejection of the term “rape culture” that led to him being banned, he said.

“I am critical of the idea of a rape culture because it does not exist,” he wrote in a lengthy email to Savery explaining his perspectives that he has also posted online. “We live in a society that hates rape, but also hasn’t optimized the best way to handle rape. Changing the legal definition of rape is a slippery slope. If sexual assault becomes qualified as rape, what happens next? What else can we legally redefine to become rape? Why would we want to inflate the numbers of rape in our society?”

“I’m really comforted by the administrative response,” said Kate Hilts, a junior. “It’s really nice to know that my school supports survivors and listens when they say they don’t feel safe. Rape culture is indisputable and [True’s] words and actions are deeply upsetting. They’ve retraumatized and triggered survivors, and that seems antithetical to Reed culture.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/college-professor-bans-student-from-class-for-his-views-on-r#.jqPNyXy36

Also it’s his own damn fault for attending Reed.  The number one major coming out of that s~~~ty school is a B.A. in Unemployability.

I salute him!

New York has one of the largest community college systems in the country and it is relatively easy to establish residency there as most CCs go by the address on the application as opposed to a formal enquiry.  The UPS store allows one to open a box without street address verification, and it is very easy to style a UPS store address as an apartment address.

To think, at one point I considered teaching at the University level. What the f~~~ was wrong with me?

BVC

The purpose for which tenure was established has long gone.  Nowadays, tenure is the golden hog trough and academics have come to see it as an entitlement, a license to loaf.  In this economy, in this society, nobody’s so important that they deserve to have a job for life.

If one insists that there be some form of long-term permanency to an academic position, then renewable contracts–say, 5 years long–would be a logical solution.  Speaking from someone who’s been on both sides of the system, I’ve seen too many people get tenure or permanent status and then proceeded to go to seed.