Those Dang College Liberals! (Nazi Prof Fired)

[Bark Bark Bark]

Professor With Link To Pro-Nazi Group Dismissed

...for missing too many classes, apparently. But who does he blame? Three guesses.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/04/03/professor.dismissed.ap/index.html

Sunday, April 3, 2005 10:34 AM EDT
TEANECK, New Jersey (AP) -- An adjunct history professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University who hosts a webcast program called "White Viewpoint" has been dismissed for missing too many days of class, school officials said.

Jacques Pluss, 51, acknowledged he is a member of the National Socialist Movement, a pro-Nazi group.

University officials said Pluss was dismissed for missing too many days of a class, but Pluss said each of his three absences was excused with a doctor's note.

"What I suspect is somebody on campus discovered I crossed the line of political correctness," Pluss said.

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Next time the guy who craps out Mallard Fillmore or some other propagandist starts farting and squealing about the dirty liberals swarming all over our college campuses, be sure to point at this pusbag and the way he wailed about political correctness.

[solinvictus]

1. If he was fired for his politics..

then he needs to sue to be reinstated. No matter how odious, an individual has the right to keep their job despite political affiliations. It's unconstitional to fire someone over politics alone.

[Placebo]

2. Hmm, well in all fairness...

I'll finish my first year of college in early June, and my school year is set up into trimesters so I've come across 12 professors so far...all were liberal.

Not that I mind, just sayin'. :)

[Dr.Phool]

3. I forget who said it, but

Most conservatives are not dumb, but most dumb people are conservative.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. John Stuart Mill (19th Century)

"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it."

[colonel odis]

8. were those professors liberal, or just intelligent?

isn't it peculiar that the people who devote their lives to learning, thinking, and expanding their brains are often liberal?

[Placebo]

9. I gotta say...

they were all pretty smart. My history teacher was from Alabama and had the heaviest accent, but was definitely a liberal. Same with my English teacher. And they were both damn good at what they did. So there ya go. :D

[Igel]

4. I had a professor cancel class once.

It was late in week 6 of a 10 week term, spring term, in fact ... and it extended to the final. He told the admin assistant how to complete the grade sheets when they were issued.

Then he left the country.

The dept. chair threw a fit. He took over the class (we wound up missing a week before he found out what the regular prof had done).

The guy was tenured. Wasn't fired. Decided to retire soon afterwards, however.

[struggle4progress]

5. "Adjunct" usually means the guy was a part-time employee, without ...

... the usual committee responsibilities, without requirement to continue to publish, without standard health and retirement benefits, paid on a per-class basis to teach. The regulations are generally different from those governing a tenure or tenure-track position. If a contract even existed, it was probably very short-term (say, only for the semester), but this might even have been an "employment-at-will" situation.

[struggle4progress]

6. "... The professor, who joined FDU in 2002, previously was tenured ...

... at William Paterson University. He said he became a member of the pro-Nazi group, the National Socialist Movement, in February ..."
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/news/04032005_nw_naziprofessor.html

Hmm. Wonder why he left a tenured position to become an adjunct ...