Marquette University Suspends Blogger, Snuffs Free Speech
In Marquette's continuing attempt to control every aspect of student life, they have suspended a student for what he posted on his personal blog. The student evidently posted some negative remarks about his teachers and some fellow students but never named any of them specifically. After the Marquette Dental School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Denis Lynch heard about the blog and read the students remarks, he promptly threw a fit like an insulted three year old, then demanded a signed letter of guilt and public apology. When the student would not acquiesce to these rediculous demands, the Associate Dean set up a trial that can be described as nothing less than rigged.
I think every single one of us is guilty of making negative remarks about our teachers or friends out of frustration. As McAdams mentions, we all make comments on DogEars and some of them get nasty, I can remember one student saying "avoid him like SARS" (the disease) about an accounting professor who many other students found very competent. Criticism spurs change and improvement, it appears this school has no interest in either.
I am extremely outraged at the University's actions however, I am not surprised. Look at the trend, they abruptly shoot down College Republicans supporting the troops through the innovative "Adopt a Sniper" program, send campus police Public Safety to make sure The Warrior, an independent student voice on campus, is not distributed on campus, and now they suspend a student and take away their scholarship in typical knee jerk, anti-free speech, reactionary fashion.
I hope that the Dean of the Dental school quickly discerns the implications of this outrageous decision and overturns it.
Let Marquette Dental School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Denis Lynch know how you feel:
Email: Denis.Lynch@marquette.edu
Office: 414-288-7485
Or check out his webpage.
If you'd like to hear him speak and have a few extra dollars, hop on to his Alaskan Cruise with the Michigan Dental Association.
Check out Brian's Open Letter to the Marquette Administration on the matter.
Cross-Posted at GOP3.com: The Triumvirate
I think every single one of us is guilty of making negative remarks about our teachers or friends out of frustration. As McAdams mentions, we all make comments on DogEars and some of them get nasty, I can remember one student saying "avoid him like SARS" (the disease) about an accounting professor who many other students found very competent. Criticism spurs change and improvement, it appears this school has no interest in either.
I am extremely outraged at the University's actions however, I am not surprised. Look at the trend, they abruptly shoot down College Republicans supporting the troops through the innovative "Adopt a Sniper" program, send campus police Public Safety to make sure The Warrior, an independent student voice on campus, is not distributed on campus, and now they suspend a student and take away their scholarship in typical knee jerk, anti-free speech, reactionary fashion.
I hope that the Dean of the Dental school quickly discerns the implications of this outrageous decision and overturns it.
Let Marquette Dental School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Denis Lynch know how you feel:
Email: Denis.Lynch@marquette.edu
Office: 414-288-7485
Or check out his webpage.
If you'd like to hear him speak and have a few extra dollars, hop on to his Alaskan Cruise with the Michigan Dental Association.
Check out Brian's Open Letter to the Marquette Administration on the matter.
Cross-Posted at GOP3.com: The Triumvirate
posted by Brandon @ 3:02 PM
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