College Professor Offers Students Extra Credit for Attending Occupy Protest
- Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:45am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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A sociology professor at Northern Michigan University has purportedly offered her students extra credit for taking part in a local Occupy protest.
Professor Jeanne M. Lorentzen (Media credit: Northern Michigan University website)
According to an email obtained by The Blaze, Professor Jeanne Lorentzen is offering students in her introductory sociology course 20 extra credit points if they attend an Occupy the Upper Peninsula demonstration with her on Saturday. Students who do not wish to attend the protest have the option of writing a 20-page term paper about a social movement to receive the same extra credit. Neither assignment is compulsory.
The email says students who choose to attend must make a protest sign that can say anything as long as it’s not “offensive, rude or divisive.” To qualify for the extra credit, students must sign an attendance sheet twice, at the beginning and end of the march.
Lorentzen did not return multiple phone call and email requests for comment to confirm the extra credit offer, but a Facebook profile for “Jeanne M. Lorentzen, prof @ NMU” is filled with pro-Occupy Wall Street articles, photos and postings. She “likes” both the pages for “Occupy the UP” and “Occupy the UP: NMU Students and Faculty.”
On Thursday, she posted a MoveOn.org petition asking New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg not to evict the Occupy Wall Street protesters with the comment, “Please sign the petition!“ An earlier post notes ”Occupy Marquette is happening this Saturday.”
The full text of the email is reproduced below:
Subject: SO101JL04: Extra Credit Option
From: “Jeanne Lorentzen”
Date: Thu, October 13, 2011 3:01 pm
To:SO101JL04 -> Forums -> Announcements -> Extra Credit Option
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Extra Credit Option
by Jeanne Lorentzen – Thursday, 13 October 2011, 01:52 PM
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Extra Credit Possibility
This assignment requires you to become involved in a social movement. Because activities associated with social movements are limited in the Marquette area, students in SO101 typically engage in a group exercise during class in which they construct a social movement. However, the Occupy Social Movement (specifically Occupy the U.P.) is a once in a lifetime opportunity for students to experience involvement in a social movement first hand. The Occupy Movement is not aligned with any particular political party as it focuses on a multitude of social inequalities a topic we’ve been studying for the last week, and which we will continue to study (Global Stratification) for the next week. The ideas we’ve been addressing in class are also ideas that the Occupy Movement defines as important social ideas. The movement has not defined how these problems should be addressed but is, instead, attempting to make the problems public issues.
In order to earn 20 extra credit points students must participate in the march that is planned for Saturday, October 15th. The march starts at 10 a.m., but students who choose to do this assignment should meet me in Harlow Park, right next to Washington St., by at least 9:45 a.m. Students must make a protest sign (as long as it’s not offensive, rude or divisive you can write anything) and sign an attendance sheet twice, once at 9:45 a.m. and once after the march is over.
The organizers have been working with the Marquette Police, who were very supportive and helpful, in order to insure a safe and non-violent march. Those students who choose not to participate in the Occupy the U.P. march on Saturday may instead choose to write a 20 page term paper on a particular social movement and earn 20 extra credit points. You may choose to one or the other, but not both. You may also choose to do neither option.
The term paper must be double spaced, written in Ariel 11 point font, with 1 inch margins on all 4 sides. The paper should be a critical sociological analysis of a particular social movement and must include at least 5 substantive concepts from the course text. The paper will be due October 30th by 11 p.m., and must be submitted via EduCat.
Jeanne
Occupy Wall Street protesters dressed as "corporate zombies" during a demonstration this week. (AP)
University spokeswoman Kristi Evans said she had not heard about the assignment and though she couldn’t confirm it, saw no reason to think it would not be a real offer.
From the school’s perspective, Evans said there was nothing wrong with the assignment because students aren’t specifically required to attend, and have an alternative assignment they can do instead.
“The university doesn’t oversee what professors assign for extra credit,” she said, noting that as long as it doesn’t involve an “immoral or unethical” activity the school does not have reason to step in. NMU is a public university.
Occupy Wall Street protesters march in New York. (AP)
Dan Adamini, chair of the Marquette County Republican Party, said the assignment seemed very one-sided. He said he hoped that if extra credit is being given for attending Occupy U.P., students could get the same extra credit for attending a different demonstration they deemed “more sensible.”
“Whatever the topic is, I hope if you’re going to give extra credit for something like this, fairness would dictate you give extra credit for something on the other side,” he said.
Adamini disputed Lorentzen’s statement that “activities associated with social movements are limited in the Marquette area,” saying Marquette reguarly has marches and demonstrations for gay rights, abortion, union rights, the environment and the Tea Party movement.
“She’s choosing this one versus something might be conservative in nature,” he said.
He also dismissed the offer of a 20-page term paper for students who didn’t want to demonstrate, saying, “I‘m not sure that’s the equivalent of taking a Saturday morning and taking a walk.”
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Comments (254)
hightide
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:14amSo it would be ok to go to a Tea Party Rally, right?
Report Post »Ray2447
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:20amCan I picket her college? http://tinyurl.com/l7sqet
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:28am@hightide = with this teacher, I doubt it.
- The email says students who choose to attend must make a protest sign that can say anything as long as it’s not “offensive, rude or divisive.”
Report Post »Who decides what’s offensive, rude or divisive?
If a student made a sign saying “This protest is offensive, rude & divisive” will they get the extra credit points?
CottonMPG
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:40amProvided the professor agrees that attending and participating in any protest qualifies I don’t think she did anything wrong. Or even any protest of similar size or covering a certain number of different complaints. If a professor was assigning people extra credit for participating in a tea party rally I doubt any of us would want him/her fired. It isn’t fair to say this protest “only” or an essay. If there isn’t a qualifying protest in the area though, I don’t think she did anything wrong. I have no doubt she’s a flaming liberal, and as one, likely extremely unfair. Most professors are unfair, flaming liberals who think they are superior to everyone who disagrees with them and use their position to indoctrinate the students they“teach”.
Report Post »mad_hatter
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:43amIt’s not just extra credit to go to an OWS protest but schools are now busing their school bands there to march with the protesters: http://www.americanparchment.com/video/2011/oct/ows_school_band.html
Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:49amOur fine educational system at work again. Shut it down.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:56amProbably if you are a declared and avowed radical, socialist, progressive or communist/marxist.
Report Post »steveh931
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:58amA college professor should not be pushing any student in any political direction. Tenure has given Progressive Socialist professors the idea that they can teach the students across this nation anything they want with no merit. The blame doesn’t completely fall on the professor, the student has to take personal responsibility for their own actions and quit being a puppet of their teachings by fact checking what their professors teach when it come to history or political science. Socialism doesn’t work, never has, never will, it destroys cities, states and countries. Take a good look at the poorest cities in our nation, I guarantee you they have been ran by a Socialist Government within our Republic. The Tea Party and its friends stand behind the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution doesn’t need the help of college professors. Read the U.S. Constitution as ratified and tell me our Federal Government operates under the Law. Fix Big GOVERNMENT, you fix the problem.
Report Post »Tim Law
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:01pm2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. 6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Report Post »The Holy Bible : King James Version.. Matt 18:2-6
sgmwlc
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:11pmto cottonmpg – It’s wrong! The professor is showing a lack of integrity, which most professor don’t have anyway. If going to the protest to study what was going on, as part of a class assignment – that would be different.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:13pmThe kettle is steaming……As Savage stated yesterday this protest movement has the potential to creat a huge backlash and bloodbath. Conservatives including violent conservative groups such as the skin heads, american nazi’s, etc. are watching this and they are begining to boil. This 99% group whether they know it or not is a communist movement, extreme right wing groups will not tolerate it,
Report Post »thus creating the possiblility of a blood bath. Then as Savage related it, the non-extreme conservatives who are also becoming angryer and angryer (such as myself) could join in with the extreme groups and the blood bath is on. Just as what happend and brought Hitler into power. It was the Nazi‘s that put down the communist movement in Germany in the late 20’s early 30′s with the majority of germans against the communists looked at Hitler as a hero for doing so, which led to the demise of the whole country and the slaughter of millions in WW2. History always repeats itself, so apparently here we go again.
Steve
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:29pmCottonMPG
Just wondering. Do you favor grape or cherry kool aid?
Are you serious? Kids who attend Tea Party rallies are mocked and ridiculed by their progressive teachers (few may be the exception) not given extra credit. This is nothing more then a political grade pay off. Disgusting. And if a teacher did the same for a tea party rally it would still be a political grade pay off.
One thing I’d like to know is if any of these kids who went to these rallies and came away with the experience that the entire OWS movement is a Marxist, Socialist and anarchist rally bent on the destruction of the American system Would he/she still get the same grade as some zombie who hasn’t a clue of Dodd / Frank.
Report Post »just the facts
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:38pmShe said ‘ Once in a lifetime to experience….’ wow, she has no idea just how accurate that is. Just remember teach, when the sparks start to fly and the true Americans, Constitutionalist, Patriots, what ever you want to call us, when we start to rid the vermon, none of you marxist should be surprised.
Report Post »Jacque
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:58pmDON‘T SEND YOUR KIDS TO MOST UNIVERSITY’S! They are brainwashing them. As a professor at a college I would say 90-95% of the professors are libs if not total Marxists, Communists and Socialists. They think the Dictator is “too conservative” and the “Founding Father’s were all criminals”.
I am very outspoken that I am a proud Conservative Tea-Party member! The only reason I have not been fired, since they believe sooo much in diversity is my boss is a closet Conservative.
Cain 2012
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:19pm@CottonMPG
If a professor was assigning people extra credit for participating in a tea party rally I doubt any of us would want him/her fired
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Really! If that ever happened, the intent would be to infiltrate and disrupt the Tea Party rally.
Looks like you don’t know what the Tea Party is about. What you are suggesting goes against TP principles. This assignment is a sleazy liberal quid pro quo.
Report Post »DanWesson455
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:34pmI’ll let you have a hot shower with SOAP and some spaghettios before you leave.
Report Post »lionslayer44
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:34pm@RAY2447, why not do as they would do and picket their homes. picket the places who do business with them. picket union companies, picket union halls. unions have outlived their usefulness and have become enemies of the state. most members dont even realize that the global union plan will weaken the pay scale for U.S. unions and strengthen asian unions. so union members understand you are aiding in the demise of your country and fellow countrymen. union bosses get richer, politicians, lobbiests, and corporations get richer, but what of the worker? they spend your dues lobbying politicians by the tens of millions couldnt that money do better within the union? you have become “USEFULL IDIOTS.” BE PREPARED COLLECT, FOOD, WATER (FILTERS), AMMO!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Report Post »netmail
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:12pmTeachers like her illustrate how Obama can get reelected. Pure indoctrination and for how many generations now?? Education will probably have to undergo forceful teacher evictions from classrooms K-1 through graduate school in order to straighten this mess out. No commies in American classrooms, PERIOD. (I wish)
Report Post »Falsegods
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:51pmTraitors.
Report Post »Every last one of them needs to be kicked out of the USA .
Want our country back
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:53pmFIRE her sorry a s s
This country is going down the toilet and these Liberal professors need to be replaced!!!!! These useless idiots should be protesting the University tuition …. not Wall street
Obama’s transforming the country is happening…. can you imagine a nothing, community disorganizer being elected to be the President of the United States – shameful
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:56pm@ hightide
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:14am
So it would be ok to go to a Tea Party Rally, right?
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Never has the Tea Party infringed on the equal rights of others. This M O B is infringing on the equal rights of the owner of the land. The peaceful residence of members of Wall Street whom they marched to their houses against. They are slobs who are destroying property with their pollution, and causing economic harm by having to have extra police round the clock. That’s before we get into them harassing workers of that locality, and disrupting traffic, and lewd and lascivious behavior.
There is NOTHING similar between a Tea Party protest and this trash heap of perverts.
Report Post »circleDwagons
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:59pmi’d go with my sign FAIR TAX FOR EVERYONE
Report Post »SWING HARD
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 4:11pmGotta love those useful idiots.
Report Post »coindexter
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 4:29pmand they wonder why they can’t get jobs with their sociology degrees. i fear for the future of university grads who have been snookered out of thousands of dollars for a worthless education. the university system is a corrupt and evil corporation.
Report Post »ltb
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 5:02pmWhen I was in college, I ALWAYS confronted liberal professors. Once, I had an English professor who gave me a B+ on an opinion paper, because he didn’t like my opinion (I’m not kidding). The professor said my pro-Conservative paper was well written, but my opinion was “wrong.” I went to the Dean and was transferred to another class. By the time I finished graduate school, I had a reputation among the liberal professors of being a pain in the butt. They knew better than to mess with my grades, though, because I never hesitated to go above their heads if I felt they were persecuting me because of my Conservative ideology, even if it meant going all the way to the President of the University.
Report Post »toto
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 5:23pmI hope there‘s at least one of her student’s that has the cajones to make and carry a sign that says the TeaParty is right.
Report Post »toto
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 5:25pmLBT, a true patriot, if we can use you, I would support cloning.
Report Post »obama-mecca-me-sick
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:00pmIf violence erupts and one of her students is killed at Occupy can the University be sued???
Report Post »MTZ.LDRSHIP
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 7:42pmWhat I’d like to know is, if, based on her email description of the assignment, could a student go to the rally and then present a sign that said, GREED IS GOOD! or CAPITALISM ROCKS! or with a picture of Ayn Rand on it… would they receive the same ‘extra credit’? It never specifies that they have to espouse the same views or hold up a similar sign/banner. What if I DON’T believe the same thing, but she wants me to participate? Why shouldn‘t I get the same ’credit’ for participating?
Report Post »McKenzie Davis
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 8:28pmDon’t Worry College Professors .. SOCIALIST COMMUNIST ARROGANT A$$ES!! We are Keeping a list and Checking it Twice!!! WE Know who has been Naughty and Nice!!!!!
God Won’t Forget you I promise!!!!!!!
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 9:22pm@ ltb
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 5:02pm
When I was in college, I ALWAYS confronted liberal professors. Once, I had an English professor who gave me a B+ on an opinion paper, because he didn’t like my opinion (I’m not kidding). The professor said my pro-Conservative paper was well written, but my opinion was “wrong.” I went to the Dean and was transferred to another class. By the time I finished graduate school, I had a reputation among the liberal professors of being a pain in the butt. They knew better than to mess with my grades, though, because I never hesitated to go above their heads if I felt they were persecuting me because of my Conservative ideology, even if it meant going all the way to the President of the University.
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I had to return to College because my job required a Degree in one of the Social Science (I opted for Poli-Sci). My Professor was almost certainly (he never stated it openly but his teaching methods showed pretty clearly with his huge support of Ohio Frontiers and Progress Ohio) a Progressive aka socialist/marxist. Still he demanded of his students that we think for ourselves. We had some seriously heated exchanges and he certainly disagreed with my positions, but at the end of the day, I graduated with an absolutely perfect grade. The next closest in my class is on Wall St today and unemployed
1389AD
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 9:47pmShe doesn’t consider it immoral or unethical to have students attending an event that is endorsed by the American Nazi Party.
http://1389blog.com/2011/10/15/the-occupy-movement-turns-nazi/
Report Post »Tired of Code Names
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 12:02am@cottonmpg. So, while I may agree with the freedom of speech portion of your argument, as you alluded to, it seems her goals are nefarious, therefore, is it really a good idea? I suspect for those who opt out of going to the OWS wherever it is there, and they choose to write a term paper and it no matter how poigniantly that student presented their opinion, the grade received for such open discent to her “enlightend opinion” and worse yet to have the gall to do it in her class would be detrimental to their success on the extra credit effort and most certainly future core classwork and testing. Been there. Done that.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 7:03amDid we lose the cold war, cuz i thought these lazy, smelly, commie bastards were buried about twenty years ago……. Why dont they just move to a socialist crap hole like cuba ?
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 8:08amSomeone explain to me why this teacher is wrong. CIVICS is no longer taught in our schools and the kids who attended the Wisconsin rally at the beginning of the year went on to get much higher grades than they previously had. It has something to do with personal involvement – which is the best education that anyone could have. I lived in Nazi occupied Europe in WW2 and because of that I am a supporter of those who don’t have a voice. If, like most of you guys, I only learned about that era from a book – I probably would be thinking like you. Thank god for my ‘tough’ young life. It gave me character.
Report Post »VerySeniorCitizen
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 8:17amJACQUE – I understand that education is of no value to you. If it was you might just have learned (in grade school) that if a word ends in ‘y’ then the plural of that word changes the ‘y’ to ‘ies’. You are indicating that ‘something belongs to the university (ie: university’s).
NEVER DOWNPLAY EDUCATION – of any kind. This country’s education system was (a few years ago) No. 1 in the world and it is what made this country great – and now the lack of it is ruining our future!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 11:17amAnd we parents, pay to have these idiot teachers in many of our colleges. It‘s time we parents stand up and refuse to support these type professors who are against everything that’s right with America.
Report Post »I see my own grandson who’s changed so much, I hardly recognize him, but I stand for what I believe and let him know it. Unfortunately he goes to a well known liberal (YUK) Univ. (scuse while I hurl)
lunabug
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 2:41pmGo ahead Ray, picket NMU. Those of us that support Jeanne and her EXTRA CREDIT (as in not being forced, if you don’t do it nothing will happen to your grade) assignment will meet you there. You know us college students, we love protests, and being from the UP, we won’t give up because of the cold.
Report Post »DJSKI
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 3:15pmAstroturf alive & well in the Liberal’s movements …. ALL of the protesters are paid in some form (Cash, College Credit, etc.), or they hope to get something for nothing somehow. My sign would say “I HATE CROWDS”
Report Post »eurydice
Posted on October 18, 2011 at 1:49pmyes, it would be ok. Funny, i’m pretty sure if the assignment was for the tea party, half of these people wouldn’t be complaining. In fact, i doubt the Blaze would write an article about it. People need to stop being so narrow minded and look at this through different perspectives. i can see how people can misunderstand what she did, but Dr. Lorentzen was only doing this for the sociological experience, and yes she is offering extra credit for other protests and events that the students can choose themselves. The Blaze really needs to get their facts straight. She is a really good person and its a shame that the Blaze had to be low enough to illegalyl hack into her facebook and put a link where everyone can access it. Low blow.
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:13amand she should be fired.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:59amI agree…. This is what is “teaching” in our overpriced Colleges? … Glenn is right find a internship and get a REAL education .. or go to a TRADE school and not one of these liberal nightmares .. my son went to a private trade school and got a B.A. in Accounting and is doing well.
TEA!
Report Post »Lemon Party Patriot
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:05pmdurrrr and she should be fired durrrrrr I’m a moron.
Report Post »tbarr4
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:12amFire this Commie Prof Now!! She works for Soros/Wasserman!!
Report Post »Southernguy
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:09amHey NYPD……lock and load!
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:09amI don’t doubt that this story is true, but would like to see some confirmation besides “an email obtained by the Blaze.” Note that if you don’t want the extra credit, neither attendance at the protest nor the 20-page paper is required.
Report Post »garbagecanlogic
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:41amDo you know how to utilize your computer? We cannot continually do your work for you. Do something on your own if you question a report. Lordy, what – are you still living in your mother’s basement?
The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
Report Post »The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:07pmVery often The Blaze goes off half-cocked with some hyperbolic headline, above a story that’s poorly sourced and mostly designed to inflame its following of pitchfork and torch carrying peasants.. This is a parade example.
Why do all your posts conclude with that bit about the US and the UN? Hope you know enough about computers so that you don’t have to type it in fresh every time. How tiresome that would be!
My mother lives in my basement. I let her out occasionally for a glimpse of the sun.
Report Post »Clean Patriot
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 2:31pmWhy should anyone get EXTRA credit for actiong like a Moron?
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 5:34pmLloyd Drako,
Report Post »Hey ..,Merci!,Merci, for weighing in with your inane moral relativist comment!
People like you are EVERYWHERE in world history.
You are the good German citizen who never thought that his fellow Germans would vote for Hitler. You are the Brit who believed the simple minded appeaser Chamberlain. you are the Frenchman who believed Vichy until German troops marched down his village street and commandeered his home for “The Reichstag”.
Get your learn on Drecko! History repeats. You abet!
Tired of Code Names
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 12:13am@lloyd drako. You ascert that the Blaze does not research their headlines and submit stories that are not true. Please enlighten us and provide an example or two in order to allow us to research it and come to that conclusion on our own. I‘ve researched much of what the Blaze has published and it’s quite uncanny, that they can back it up every time. But, for the one’s that slipped through. Please enlighten us.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 10:27amTired: You make it too easy! Let me see, there was the headline on Friday that read “‘Media!’ See the Moment the Friday Protests Turned Violent in NYC.” What you saw, if you ran the accompanying video, was protesters jumping a barricade, a man on the ground, apparently run over accidentally by a police scooter, and the police holding a few people down while they slipped the plastic cuffs on them..How does that resemble the storming of the Winter Palace, or even what you saw in Rome yesterday? The Blaze does this sort of bait and switch routinely. B
Lucy: How is it being a “moral relativist” to point out that The Blaze cited no more than “an email” as the source of this story? That neither attendance at a protest nor a 20-page paper was a course requirement, is simply a fact–if you believe the story, which, as I said, I do. Naturally you feel compelled to drag Hitler in. Who doesn’t, when evidence and logic fail? But do you have the slightest idea how much ignorance you reveal when you refer to Germans commandeering homes in Vichy France for “the Reichstag?” C-
Clean Patriot: good question. I wondered the same thing myself. A+
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:08amWant to stop the movement??? Arrest the criminal politicians and policy makers who caused people to be moved to civil disobedience.
The 99% are not ALL dirty mindless people. THEY ARE DISPALCED PEOPLE by HIGH COST of LIVING and NO viable jobs. They are taxpayers whose taxes go up EVERY YEAR with no end in sight and job prospect next to none. WHY do the neo-cons splash the “provocaeturs” amongst these displaced people as opposed to those that HAVE LOST JOBS/HOMES/ barely making their bills. They are there too.
One guy said to me, “I pay tons of taxes, YET there are homeless on the street, why?” Because the policiy makers take our money, get rich and richer and HAVE NO SOCIAL conscience. That is why I am out here.” He was an old NAM vet. Why does the media not find these people to speak to??
OBVIOUSLY: they don’t want to show the world the displaced people who hAVE HAD IT, with policies that are enslaving them to taxes and to government rules and regulations.
They want to harp on the Soros plants of “provocateturs.” Where are the TEA activist??
Oh yeah, they are preparing for 2012 going by the “rule of law.” That’s all to the good. But are they that stupid that they don’t see that those that are making all the policies the ones that are in power ARE NOT PLAYING BY THE RULE OF LAW and as a result nULL and VOID any efforts by honorable people. The TEA candidates most of them has turned out to be FALSE. Lets get real. They have been co-opted by Rep
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:17amYou have been brainwashed. Ask for a college refund.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:19amHistory is Repeating Itself …Our Government is being ruled by KINGS ..and this is what our Founding Fathers wanted to AVOID !!!!!
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/03/333925/top-5-reasons-why-the-occupy-wall-street-protests-embody-values-of-the-real-boston-tea-party/
Report Post »kansas hawks 3
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:43amWhat do you think the tea party is trying to do??They want to have all the politicians that have taken money and not done their job to be voted out.. Why do you think that you are entitled to have money given to you for doing nothing??? People have to work for a living no one will give you something for nothing,Except that is what dumbo obama is trying to do. Do you people not read the constitution or the bill of rights?? This is America and out side of the dirty politicians this is how our country works.So as the old saying goes love it or leave it…..
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:15pmOpen your eyes Kansas .. its not about left or right … Or free stuff … It’s about …“JOBS”
Today Manufacturing Jobs only account to 10% of the Jobs in America ..Even the ceo of ..GE… said that the reason he shipped his jobs over to china was because he owed it to his Share Holders to make more Profits rather then Reinvesting in America, and he is just one of MANY . So do you think that by giving these Un-American corporations more Breaks ..It’s Not About Free Stuff, Free Stuff is only the symptom of how Government Failed it’s people and it all started here
http://zfacts.com/p/1195.html
Report Post »dbrodnick
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:42pmActually, I’m one of those minus the displaced/jobless part, so in that respect, I’m one of the 99% but I’ll be DAMNED if those morons (whether they’re “educated” or not) represent me! They give actually civil disobedience a bad name. They are dirty, disrespectful and, seriously, undisciplined and incoherent. Shame on them. Shame on them.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:08amForgot to add she looks an awful lot like Debbie What’s Her Name Shitz, which probably explains a lot.
Report Post »tbarr4
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:14amGO to FireDebbie.com Send wasserman packing in 2012!!!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:20amIt looks like Dee Snider has another long-lost sister in addition to Debbie What’s-her-name Schiltz-for-brains.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:26amYeah. She has that used dog look….
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:58amIf she was a conservative you’d think she was hawt, and you know it.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:21pm@Drako, it wouldn’t matter what her political leanings were. She looks like she’s been ridden hard and put away wet. In fact, she looks like she fits in with that class of people who, according to some, suddenly need protection under the ADA…..
The fact that she’s a lib not only makes her ugly on the inside in addition to her unfortunate outward appearance, but it makes her as dumb as a box of rocks to boot. Just sayin’. :)
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:58pm@Lloyd Drako
If she was a conservative you’d think she was hawt, and you know it.
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ughhh, no.
==> “My mother lives in my basement. I let her out occasionally for a glimpse of the sun.”
I know you can’t forgive your mom for giving you life, but it’s time you let go.
Report Post »ezeewhiz
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:07amThe Foxes leading the little chickadees to the slaughter of their minds!!!
Report Post »TennesseeMan
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:07am“ The Occupy Movement is not aligned with any particular political party” she says…is the that STUPID?????
This is a DEMONCRAT (liberal) anti-American event.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:14amIt’s not a liberal or Democratic movement, it’s a radical movement that would like to yank the Democrats to the left the same way the Tea Party yanked the GOP to the right. It remains to be seen whether it will succeed.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:31amDRAKO: Think it would be difficult to yank the Obama crowd any further Left than they already are. That’s why the “wink-wink“ of such stellar Democrat giants as Al Gore favor these ”grass roots” demonstrations. Total baloney…
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:37amI think there is a lot of room to the left of the Democratic Party, and these protesters would like to fill it.
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:07amThis is what is wrong with the education system in this country. The public schools and universities are full of crack pots and commies. Catholic schools are more discriminating in their hiring practices and choose people who want to teach and not indoctrinate.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:15amfor years YOU people paid for this and said nothing. I didn’t see and cONSERVATIVES in DC in front of the Education Dept. did you???
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:37amCulp: That‘s because these parents were willing to pay double for their children’s “separate but superior” education! They paid with their taxes, as required by law, to support the union dominated mess of public education while they paid again to send their children to a private school. It takes commitment and sacrifice to raise a child well. Something the “freebie” crowd just doesn’t understand or value.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:56amCulpergang apparently you have missed the talk of eliminating the Department of Education and the no-fire policy in teacher unions. If we don’t get back to basics in education and reward those teachers who do a good job and fire those who are not cut out to be teachers, then our children and grandchildren will suffer the consequences. We just had a report for students here in Colorado and the majority could not pass tenth grade math.
If you can‘t recognize that someone who can’t get fired or it takes an act of Congress does not need to do a good job in their job, then you will get a bunch of idiot kids who can‘t think for themselves and won’t have the education to get a job. They will become mindless trolls beholding to the government for their existence; no purpose in life.
I really think the young kids, which might describe you, just have no clue what Socialism, Communism, and Marxism really means. They just might be surprised when the time comes, what they expected is not what they get, why? Because the upper level Progressives are just using you and others to gain Power. Do you really think they care about you? Did Hitler care about the Jews? Don’t be naive, they will throw you out like yesterday’s garbage.
Report Post »Forward
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:05amI see less of a problem here as they are clearly studying mass social movements in their classwork. Remember that “liking” on Facebook does not actually mean that you like it, merely that you want to keep track of it. Let’s not jump to conclusions. That is using stereotypes.
The only problem would be if the teacher requires sympathy with the general protest. A non-divisive sign could be something like “I like peanut butter”. If she gives credit for that I’m good with it.
As to the imbalance between going to a march and writing a 20 page paper, I could see the teacher really wanting the students to SEE a social movement in action rather than merely work with secondary sources which do not give the flavor (and odor!) or the actual movement.
Yes, like all of you I assume that the teacher has sympathies for the movement, but we do little to advance our cause by blaming before investigating.
As to the Republican commentary, he has fallen for the bait. The teacher hasn’t (yet) required any sympathy for the Occupy cause. Yes, the TEA Party is a good example of a social movement but it is not at its infancy as the Occupy movement is. From a teaching standpoint that is material.
I’m a bit of a historian and can see value in the assignment if it is dispassionate and unbiased. If someone doesn’t get EC because they disagree with the movement jump in with both feet.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:35amGood comments. Apparently a student would be free to carry a sign saying “Impeach Barney Frank,“ ”The 1% pay 40% of the Taxes,“ or ”Greed is Good,” and still get the extra credit. Or would those be “rude, offensive or divisive?” I wish my professors had done things like this when I was in college!
Report Post »Jennifer_D
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:05amThis is certainly a biased assignment that shows preference towards the left. It is not appropriate, but common on college campuses! They are liberal indoctrination pits. Notice how students have the options to go to the protest or write a !20! page paper?!?! If you are already bogged down with assignments wouldn’t a student be likely to choose the least time consuming option? Even if you stayed at the protest for several hours it still probably wouldn’t come close to the amount of time required to write a 20 page paper.
It is one thing for an instructor to have their own personal opinions, but when they use their classroom as an activist platform that is exploitation of students and the role of instructor. People should always think for themselves and formulate their opinions based upon their own rationale.
I’d still opt for the paper because of principle.
Report Post »TennesseeMan
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:05amThis idiot “professor” should be FIRED for pushing a commie agenda!
She should give the same credit for attending a TEA Party (real Americans) rally.
The students should write 20 page papers blasting the commie Wall Street riots and praising the TEA Party!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:45amI agree Tennesseeman the communist professor should be fired but the teachers union makes that impossible, you’ll have a better chance of the sun rising in the west before a public employee union member is fired.We all know progressives have been assaulting the constitution for over a century and we’re playing catch up,hopefully throwing out the Marxist in chief in 12 will be a start to saving the republic.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:05amDefund this University… for Academic Swindle!
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:03amOK parents, wake up and get your kids out of these colleges and universities. Make them pay for the idiots they have teaching your kids. They lose tuition they might change the policy on hiring these jerks.
Report Post »Hephzibah
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 12:54pmYep, this is exactly why we’re near the end of America…the programming of the next generation. The universities won’t change their hiring policies because these kommie professors are exactly what they want. These students are the 2nd or 3rd generation of socialist/commies already.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:03amYou ever wonder if the Democratic politicians who support the OWS protests give any thought to the symbolism expressed by those crowds? Guy Fawkes (the mask everyone is wearing) was arrested in a plot to kill all the English politicians in the House of Lords by detonating the entire building with everyone in it. However, I’m sure that this being America, no one has thought this through any further than it being “that mask from that cool movie”.
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:10amBut don’t you see, they, the far left lunatics (aka progressives) ARE the same people as the OWS brainless twerps.
Just like this idiot professor. Worthless. I say we reverse george bernard shaw (lower case intentional) on them and make them step before our tribunal to justify their existence. When they can’t, well, you know!
Report Post »RodT82721
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:01amThis is neither new or a surprise. We turned our education over to the socialist progressives and they will use every chance they get to subvert our children to their ideology. They do this in our primary education system and have for years.
Report Post »Remember the teachers with the tots, “Barrack Hussian Obama mmm mmm mmm!”.
That’s why so many young heads full of mush are wondering around Wall street demanding more free stuff!
FASTCOMPANY
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:01amDoers this University receive tax payer funds? I’ll bet they do. Typical.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:59amAll I can say is beware what you wish for Libs … as the old saying goes “You don’t know what you got til its gone.”
Report Post »db321
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:02amThey will make anyone of the Fleabaggers Dean of the Liberal College if the Kill someone.
Report Post »Grumpy old Flight Nurse
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:04amI wonder how the ACLU will be treated under socialism / communism? Things that make you go hummm…
Report Post »NeoKong
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:57amHmmm….let me think.
A twenty page term paper or standing around in a park for a few hours smoking weed and drinking coffee….?
Tough choice.
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 4:44pmNEOKONG,
This demented, self serving “PROFESSOR” should be nowhere near a college,let alone teaching!
She is a PROGRESSIVE MONSTER!
Sadly…,so many monsters like her lurk in the IVY of the hallowed halls of Academia. UGH!
Report Post »Maximus_Delta
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:54amFools and tools paid by soros and the DNC….. These “professors” should lose their licenses to teach….
Report Post »The_Plumber_Says
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:54amWartburg College in Waverly Iowa is doing the same thing.
A co workers wife attends the private School and is going to NY for 3 days to protest.
She also is in good graces with Sen. Harkin and Christie Vilsack.
This is Communism folks sponsored by the Democrat party.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:45amThink the Obama Democrats are the new American Communist Party !
Report Post »CHICAGOTHUGBUCKET
Posted on October 16, 2011 at 12:17amIf your kid has attended college in the past fifteen years he or she is programmed to accept this act of treason against a students free will and this women needs some pilgrim witch treatment. The group of young graduates no longer can feed themselves due to the education system polluting the mind with the idea we can all get rich texting on our I phone as we separate our garbage for the state to profit from. She is a “socialist” studies teacher nothing more. I hope her husband gives her herpes and divorces her! This is a female blonde rat disguised as a socialist professor. I am for a humane deportation to Cuba for the whole lot, Pronto! These asses need to spend a few years there as I have learning the one party system.
Report Post »Constructionist
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:54am“The Occupy Movement is not aligned with any particular political party as it focuses on a multitude of social inequalities” Lol, sure thing lady. There is HUGE bipartisan support for abolish the banks, abolish all debt, free everything for everyone. Remember, if you keep saying it often enough eventually people might start to believe you.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 1:49pmImagine the people paying for these kids education. What a waste and what a teacher.
Report Post »TeaPartyDragon
Posted on October 17, 2011 at 8:58amThey are aligned with communist party that is the new Democratic Party…
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:52amTypical.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 10:49am“Occupy Wall Street”people warned not to let their efforts get hijacked (like the GOP hijacked the Tea Party)
Napolitano suggests common goals.
End the Fed
End the wars
End the income tax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF30eMuWFHI
Report Post »The10thAmendment
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:07amThe Tea Party began as the Constitution Party, and remains the Constitution Party today. Why do you think that rejects like Boehner and McCain, Graham and Brown hate us? We represent their demise.
Report Post »TennesseeMan
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:08amIf you end the Income Tax how you gonna buy all the welfare votes for Democrats?
Report Post »YepImaConservative
Posted on October 15, 2011 at 11:54am“…hijacked (like the GOP hijacked the Tea Party)” LMAO.
Who did the GOP hijack the “Tea Party” from? Ron Paul and his supporters? I thought the “Tea Party” was all inclusive?
Tell ya’ what… we‘ll give it back when you tell Ron Paul he’s no Republican… Lol.
If the “Tea Party” was left up to just Ron Paul and his ilk (some rather sinister ilk too)… we‘d be seeing the same crap as we’re seeing from your drug addled protesting brothers and sisters on the left. You know the one’s… the Neo-Libs out there with the other naive Libs.
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