So, anyone reading Colleague Larry Shore’s email to me – First reply to Larry Shore, Second reply to Larry Shore, –should keep the following in mind.
I teach in a dystopian department where tenets and traditions of Academic Freedom and Academic Integrity are constantly undermined. It’s regarded as department politics. The most visible manifestations for me personally have been grade scams, office and classroom invasions by department chairs, Colleagues and staff in moronic attempts at intimidation, grade appeal scams. pressure on instructors not to flunk students who deserve to flunk, including those students that disrupt class – and lots more debauchery.
My Department Chair once was encouraging a student to file a complaint against me. I had flunked her for cheating in class (and called Hunter security when she made motions to dump water on a lab computer) and a department grade appeal committee, chaired by Larry Shore, gave her a passing grade and in its decision stated that I should be investigated for harassing the student for flunking her.
Other Committee members: Larry Shore, Bob Stanley and former Colleague, Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard Stein.
Stein
A Senate Grade Appeals Committee changed the passing grade back to an F. The student was subsequently counseled about how to file a complaint against me under what was a yet to be announced new university guideline for students to file complaints against instructors. And the Chair informed me that she was thinking of doing it.
I conferred with Dean John Rose about this and the Ombudsman at the time, adjunct professor Bill Williams. But I was more than ready to deal with the complaint because I knew it would be a can of worms for my department which has a lot to conceal.
When I told the Chair that her filing a complaint would open a can of worms, exposing predatory Colleagues to possible complaints alleging racism and sexual harassment, particularly one Colleague whom the Chair had once described to me as “the kind of racist you never want to turn your back on,” the Chair told me he would call her that night to tell her to forget about filing the complaint.
I sent the department a memo about the affair.
More later about Larry Shore’s email because it is so revelatory about the debauchery and bullying that takes place in the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, City University of New York.
Revised D:F/M Logo in the Works. Present and former Colleagues.
Gregg Morris, editor of the WORD and this site.
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