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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus6/14/2018 8:55:05 pm PDT

Butthurt over an academic conflict:

The Public Pulse: Possible UNL censure

I don’t know how anyone can take seriously this possible censure of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln by the American Association of University Professors unless this organization opens up its records and provides information concerning any censure of the University of California, Berkeley; New York University; and various other liberal universities on the West Coast and in the Northeast.

These schools have made it almost impossible for any conservative speaker to appear at their schools and have done nothing to prevent the harassment, bullying and attacks against anyone having a different opinion from their liberal “group think.” Also, the treatment of students on those campuses trying to start conservative clubs has been shameful.

Cheryl Bartek, Omaha

The whataboutism is clear; Ms. Bartek has been trained by right-wing media (radio? Hannity?) to hate academia.

I looked for a story that described what exactly went on, but the Lincoln newspaper is behind a paywall. I did find this from the Omaha paper:

National group may censure UNL over handling of conflict involving conservative student

[…]

The situation involves the Aug. 25 conflict between a graduate student-lecturer and a sophomore who was recruiting for the conservative organization Turning Point USA.

The American Association of University Professors responded to UNL’s recent defense of its handling of the case by saying the AAUP “vehemently disagree(s)” with UNL’s interpretation.

The graduate student-lecturer, Courtney Lawton, belittled and criticized the student, and the student eventually left her recruitment table in tears.

[…]

The AAUP also says Lawton deserved a hearing before a UNL faculty panel and didn’t receive one.

[…]

The AAUP takes a pretty strong stand on how faculty ought to be treated, and thus not giving the TA a hearing is what the fuss apparently is about.

About Ms. Bartek’s assertion about censure records: The censures by the AAUP are not many but are public: aaup.org

UNL may be added to that list on the 16th.

The whine from Ms. Bartek misses the point censure - the censure is just about how disputes ought to be treated, not the ideological basis for why the student went off crying, or why the TA believes what they do.