Archive for the ‘Dogfighting in the Department of Chimera’ Category
Why Are My Colleagues Smiling?
Thursday, January 3rd, 2013Final Grades: It’s That Time of Year Again
Saturday, December 22nd, 2012Comments below are from an email from a student for whom I’ve filed a complaint with the Faculty-Student Disciplinary Board for suspected cheating. I filed a second complaint with the College Behavioral Response Team for shouting and cursing and demanding, in an abusive manner, for an A in a class where the student seemed to be doing passing work.
The student believe that being abusive would improve chances for an A in the course. The student’s sophistry (revealed in comments) is not unusual nor was the student’s irrational behavior. Years ago, I developed a protocol for dealing with students who cheated because of Colleagues who inspired and supported students to cheat. More about this later.
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Boycotting the Aronson Awards – D:F/M Colleagues Seeking Surcease for Peter Parisi’s Faux Pas
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012According to the minutes for the November D:F/M faculty meeting, D:F/M Chair Jay Roman and Colleagues Bob Stanley and Karen Hunter (right now, I regard Colleague Hunter as a sort of overpaid journalistic diletante with a scurrilous reputation for making despicable comments about atheists) and others whose names were not in the minutes, were distressed that Colleague Parisi was being “singled” out for his comments supporting news censorship of the WORD.
![Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]](https://blog.hunterword.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/peewee-parisi-21-187x200.jpg)
Peter Parisi [From his facebook page]
D:F/M Mob Does a Bronx Cheer – Epilogue, Part 2
Monday, June 4th, 2012More from Colleague Larry Shore. This is an earlier email. Again, my comments are in red.
D:F/M Mob Does a Bronx Cheer – Epilogue, Part 1
Monday, June 4th, 2012Below is Colleague Larry Shore’s April 4 12:51:29 EDT 2012 email. It is flushed with deceit and misrepresentations and specious comments. However, it is also possible that he believes some of what he is saying. My comments are in red.
The Handwriting on the Wall, the Elephants in the Room
Sunday, November 13th, 2011D:F/M Colleagues were shocked at the Wednesday, November 9, faculty meeting when Dara Meyers-Kingsley, Project Director, Arts Across the Curriculum Initiative, said several departments in the College were submitting proposals to add media to their curriculum. [The Chair, speaking in a manner that set off alerts in this Colleague, expressed to Meyers-Kingsley hissurprise that he had not been made aware of this action, as chairs are suppose to be aware of threats to department turfs. No one even blinked.]
D:F/M sobriety was also blown away when it became known that D:F/M was not represented on the AAC Committee that had been formed.
Occupy D:F/M — Part 2
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011[Soon to be a Major Motion Picture — :)]
Also, posted on Hunter-L
Attention D:F/M Colleagues Tami Gold***Ricardo Miranda***Bernard Stein***Kelly Anderson***Isabel Pinedo***Tim Portlock
Occupy D:F/M — Part 1
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011[Soon to be a Major Motion Picture — :)]
The following screed was posted on Hunter-L, a Hunter College listserv, in response to a petition posted to support OCCUPY WALL STREET. Hunter-L is used by faculty and students and staff for disseminating information and has a long history of turbulence and relevance . The petition can be found much further down in this blog.
Occupy D:F/M
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The Usual Suspects
True Liberation Begins at Home: A reminder to my Colleagues after several of their names appeared in a petition being circulated on Hunter-L, a principal Hunter College listserv, in support of OCCUPY WALL STREET. A copy of the petition is just below this note included in an Hunter-L post response about the petition: