“I’m also curious as to why the Columbia professors accused in a similar he said/she said situation were not given the benfit of the doubt that Professor Klocek has been.”

I believe the statements made by Columbia professors stand by themselves.

I don’t see where the doubt is.

“Klocek?s real crime was offending students during an out-of-class discussion of a controversial and emotional topic.”

Amen.

Not allowed under the peecee laws. What a joke…oops, I mean “joke.”

Come weigh in on your pet peeves:

In Defense of Hatred

Warning****Warning****

Politically incorrect. Also has a Pogo cartoon. Do not go there if you’re sensitive.

DePaul does not have a school of engineering, although it does have a computer science program (which would frequently be found in a school of engineering at other universities). When I studied accounting there (1969-1972), the professors did, in fact, insist that debits always went on the left, that assets equaled liabilities plus owners’ equity, and things like that. When my parents studied chemistry there (1938-1942 for my mother, I think, and some extended post-WWII period for my father under the GI Bill), the professors probably did insist that, for example, carbon had an atomic number of six.

Not that these problems have anything to do with DePaul, per se. Political correctness and moral relativism are, as far as I can tell, endemic at college campuses in the United States, and probably elsewhere.

It took me only a few moments to find this item on the Internet:

ìU.S. taxpayers fund Israeli terror to the tune of at least $3 billion in military aid annually. The mainstream media emphasizes the deaths of Israelis and ignores Palestinian deaths or refers to ìa period of relative calmî even as the Israeli military attacks Palestinian children, women and the elderly.î

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005b/051305/051305u.htm

A few moments later, I also found these comments:

ìIsrael’s assassination of Hamas’ spiritual header Sheikh Ahmad Yassin seems terrifyingly predictable. Terrifying because the assassination is likely to trigger more violence in response; predictable because we’ve come down this road before. Where will it end, one wonders. Fighting fire with fire only feeds the flame. What kind of conflagration is building as the Israeli government pursues revenge rather than reconciliation and the Bush administration stands on the sidelines and issues empty calls for “moderation”? The assassination is deplorable on several counts, not just on the pragmatic grounds that this will scarcely help the peace process but morally as well. Extrajudicial killing violates the rule of law that is fundamental to open and democratic societies. If Yassin was guilty of the crimes Israel accused him of, Israel could have arrested him and tried him in a court of law; it chose not to do this. Instead, it resorted to terroristic actions of its

…î

http://static.highbeam.com/n/nationalcatholicreporter/april022004/israelfeedstheflameasusstandsbysheikhahmadyassinas/

Do yourself a favor and visit the library of any liberal Christian university. This will allow one the opportunity to read the many publications that normally escape your everyday attention.

Is the university asserting that Klocek’s defense of Israel is “erroneous?” Do they believe that all statements made by currently-employed members of their faculty are free from error? Do they believe that to argue with someone is to demean their ideas?

I understand that DePaul is a Catholic institution. The current Pope has spoken out strongly against relativism. Does the university believe that the statement “no one should…insist on the absoluteness of an opinion” is consistent with this direction?

Does DePaul have a school of engineering? Does their believe that no one should insist on the absoluteness of an opinion apply to this school..say, to the value of Young’s Modulus of Elasticity? Would DePaul administrators drive over a bridge built by someone who carried relativism to this level?

The man is accused (as everyone here has conveniently ignored) of physically assaulting students by throwing papers at them. If true, he’s no standard bearer for academic free speech, but a thug. I’m also curious as to why the Columbia professors accused in a similar he said/she said situation were not given the benfit of the doubt that Professor Klocek has been.

Incidentally, Mr. Simon, your source quotes verbatim from a press release put out by the accuser. Is this an example of “Fair and Accurate” reporting?