Posts Tagged ‘Harold Newman Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences’

Minding the Workplace: Suggestions for Those in Need of Assistance for a Workplace Bullying, Mobbing, or Abuse Situation.

Sunday, December 25th, 2016

The resources may be helpful. Click here for good information.

Gregg Morris, editor, the WORD & this site and others.

Bullying Is a Crime, Not Just a Problem – So Says Michael Corry

Sunday, December 25th, 2016

Michael Corry believes that bullying should be regarded as a work-related injury and that bullies should face criminal prosecution.

Who is Michael Corry?

Click here for article.

Bullying in the Workplace, Academic and Otherwise

Friday, December 23rd, 2016

Part 1

Wednesday, December 21st, 2016

By David Yamada:

I’ve assembled a baker’s dozen of the most popular 2016 posts on workplace bullying, mobbing, and abuse from this blog. If you missed any of them the first time around, here they are. If there’s a piece you’d like to read again, I hope you find it interesting.

Friday, December 9th, 2016

The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth

Saturday, November 26th, 2016

Promoting Healthy Workplaces
Vita Rabinowitz [Vita.Rabinowitz@cuny.edu]

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Cc:       Vita Rabinowitz [Vita.Rabinowitz@cuny.edu]; Annemarie Nicols-Grinenko [Annemarie.Nicols-Grinenko@cuny.edu]

We have known each other for quite some time, and I was delighted in my new position to be reminded of your enduring commitments—to students, to great journalism, and to causes that matter in the workplace.


Based on my experiences at Hunter, accurately described over the course of several years in this blog and in other forums, I became a volunteer with New York Healthy Workplace Advocates (http://nyhwa.org). NYHWA is lobbying for a workplace anti-bullying law, which essentially bolsters discrimination laws already on the books but adds an extra layer for non-protected classes.

Protected classes legislation make it illegal for an employer to discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, age, perceived age, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, gender (including sexual harassment), gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, partnership status, pregnancy and caregiver status. But they have holes and they don’t do much for those who not in protected classes and who are being harmed by workplace discrimination.

I started a moveon.org petition supporting the NYS bill – https://goo.gl/uK0cM6 – and that link networked me to supporters of similar bills in other states. The activists with whom I work with in other ares of the country believe that New York and Massachusetts have the strongest chances of getting a bill passed this spring. If one or both happen, we are hoping those successes will influence other legislatures to pass similar bills. We’re hoping for a cascade since every state in the country has a bill pending and the northeast seems to have the best shot getting things going. But there is a downside. And I need to address that in coming posts.

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Ernest Tubb – RIP – Part 1

Saturday, November 26th, 2016

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Ernest Tubb, who worked in the Office of the Register, was one of those Hunterites I respected and who have helped me a lot dealing with academic sleaze. I recall one incident when a student who had failed a class I taught was surreptitiously given a passing grade without my knowing. A Colleague, my chair and an assistant dean had signed off giving the student a passing grade that he didn’t deserve. Ernie helped me discover this academic blindsiding and was a help for many years.

He will be missed.

Unleashing Sturm und Drang When Signatures Hit 1000

Monday, November 14th, 2016

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…And they will hit 1000!

 

Unleashing Sturm und Drang When Signatures Hit 1000

Monday, November 14th, 2016

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Attention Colleague Larry Shore Who Says on Linkedin That He’s a Professor – Part 1

Monday, October 31st, 2016

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I read a copy of the complaint that you filed with the Department of Public Safety that you and our Colleagues have been bad-mouthed for years and years and years and that you are upset that I refer to you as the Colleague who says on linked in that he is a professor and that you were upset that you aren’t allowed to respond to posts and that you feel your safety is at risk because you have been targeted for a fatwā.

Fatāwā are essentially Islamic messages (sometimes I refer to them as Islamic memos because I write so many memos about the department) but the news media has been known to hype them as lethal threats, especially when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini made it clear to the world that he wanted Salman Rushdie dead because of his The Satanic Verses (1988).

In recent years, the term “fatwā” has been widely used throughout the media, usually to indicate that a death sentence has been dealt to someone or some group of people. The limited use of this term has resulted in a limited understanding of its meaning. ISCA therefore offers the following statement to elucidate the true significance of the term “fatwā.”

Most importantly, a fatwā is not by definition a pronouncement of death or a declaration of war. A fatwā is an Islamic legal pronouncement, issued by an expert in religious law (mufti), pertaining to a specific issue, usually at the request of an individual or judge to resolve an issue where Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), is unclear. Typically, such uncertainty arises as Muslim society works to address new issues – issues that develop as technology and society advance. “Can a Muslim be involved in cloning?” for instance.

We might compare a fatwā to the legal ruling of a high court or the Supreme Court, depending on the authority of the mufti behind it. However, a fatwā is not binding as is the verdict of the secular courts; while correct and applicable to all members of the Muslim faith, the fatwā is optional for the individual to respect or not. [The Islamic Supreme Council of America]

Here is another:

fatwā (Arabicفتوى‎‎; plural fatāwāArabicفتاوى‎‎) in the Islamic faith is the term for the legal opinion or learned interpretation that the Sheikhul Islam, a qualified jurist or mufti, can give on issues pertaining to the Islamic law.[1] The person who issues a fatwā is called, in that respect, a Mufti, i.e. an issuer of fatwā, from the verb أَفْتَى ‘aftā = “he gave a formal legal opinion on”. This is not necessarily a formal position since most Muslims argue that anyone trained in Islamic law may give an opinion (fatwā) on its teachings. If a fatwā does not break new ground, then it is simply called a ruling. [ wikipedia]

You pretend to be engulfed in fear because you were asked if it was time for a fatwā to describe all the heinous academic chicanery taking place in the Department of Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, but you chose to make the question into an hostile act. That is quite a reach. You shake in your boots every time we pass each other? You tremble with fear when our eyeballs lock? I don’t know whether to laugh or consider this a Larry Shore sobering moment, an intoxicating stretch of the imagination. I think that certified letter I sent you a while back is the real issue.

I read your statement more than once and got the impression that you were more upset about being badmouthed – personally attacked is more specific regarding what your wrote but badmouthed and personal attack are synonymously linked – and that you were more upset that you were identified as the Colleague who says on linked in that he is a professor and that you were more upset that you weren’t allowed to post than you were about the alleged fatwā  against you. Wow! There’s much Larry Shore bullshit and calumny and chicanery squeezed into that complaint, so much that I’m going to need several blog posts to address them all. I’m surprised you haven’t been arrested on the grounds of felonious deceit. Felonious silliness. Felonious cockamamy.  This is one of those Kinky, Klutzy, Kooky moments that can’t be ignored. NOTE: The insistence by Colleague Larry Shore Who Says on Linkedin That He Is a Professor that he can’t post on this blogsite is a lot of baloney.

End of Part 1
In Part 2, I plan to address your allegations, starting with badmouthing/personal attacks. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth may seem like a straightjacket for Colleague Larry Shore but for me it’s liberating.

 

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