Leroy N. Soetoro
2018-04-18 21:51:46 UTC
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/us-marquette-professor-
suspended/2018/04/15/id/854579/
A dispute between a conservative professor and the university that fired
him is going before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will hear arguments
this week on whether the firing was the result of a provocative blog post
or his conduct.
Former Marquette University professor John McAdams sued the private
Catholic school in 2016, arguing that he lost his job for exercising his
freedom of speech by expressing his disapproval of what he believes was a
teacher's attempt to shut down a discussion about opposition to gay
marriage.
However, the school has always said that it was not what the professor
wrote that led to his firing, but rather his "doxing" of a graduate
student instructor in a blog post . Doxing is the practice of publicizing
someone's personal identifying information online to subject them to
harassment.
"Had he written the exact same blog post and not included the student-
teacher's name and contact information he would not have been
disciplined," said Ralph Weber, Marquette's attorney. "He's being
disciplined for his conduct, not any viewpoint."
McAdams' attorney, Rick Esenberg, said the doxing argument is
"fundamentally dishonest" and that all McAdams did was link to publicly
available information.
The state Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday.
The case is significant to conservatives, who see universities as liberal
havens that stifle their viewpoints, and to private businesses that want
control over how employees can be disciplined.
In the November 2014 blog post, McAdams described an interaction between a
conservative student and a graduate student instructor of philosophy. The
student claimed the instructor refused to allow discussion about
opposition to gay marriage during a class and provided McAdams with a
recording he secretly made of a conversation with the teacher after the
class.
That formed the basis for McAdams' post, in which he argued that the
students' experience was another example of liberals silencing people
whose opinions they disagree with or find offensive. The post included the
student-teacher's name, a link to her personal website and her email
address, and it led to a flood of hateful messages and threats against
her. The threats were bad enough that the university posted a security
officer outside of her classroom and she noticeably lost weight.
McAdams published his post on his personal website, "Marquette Warrior,"
which he has used for more than a decade to condemn political correctness
and the silencing of ideas that might be hurtful to protected classes,
according to his lawsuit against the school.
McAdams stirred up several controversies in his thousands of blog posts
over the years and the university went out of its way not to punish him
for them, according to a March 2016 report from a faculty committee that
recommended a one-year suspension for the tenured professor. The committee
noted that McAdams had been advised previously, in 2011, not to mention a
student's name on his blog.
"One of the more important obligations that professors have is to take
care not to cause harm, directly or indirectly, to members of the
university community," wrote the committee, which also criticized McAdams
for inaccurately portraying the interaction between the student and
instructor.
The graduate student McAdams named in his blog eventually moved to another
university, where she had to repeat three semesters and revise her PhD
thesis.
McAdams was given the chance to return to work after his suspension,
provided he write a letter apologizing for his conduct, acknowledging his
post "was reckless and incompatible with the mission and values of
Marquette University" and promising to follow to those values in the
future. The letter was to be shared confidentially with the student
instructor but McAdams refused to write it, saying during a talk radio
appearance that he would do so "when hell freezes over."
Esenberg said McAdams didn't write the letter because it would have been
admitting he did something wrong and he doesn't think that's the case.
"What Marquette is doing is they're forcing him to make a Soviet-style
confession," Esenberg said.
A Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of Marquette before
the case went to trial last year, saying the school's disciplinary
proceedings were fair and not a violation of McAdams' academic freedom.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, which has a conservative majority, can affirm
the decision, return the case to Milwaukee County for a jury trial or
refer it to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. It also could find that
Marquette violated the portion of its contract with McAdams guaranteeing
academic freedom.
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and National
Association of Manufacturers have filed briefs in support of Marquette.
The Thomas More Society and the National Association of Scholars, both
conservative groups, are supporting McAdams, as well as the American
Association of University Professors and the Foundation for Individual
Rights in Education, which are nonpartisan.
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suspended/2018/04/15/id/854579/
A dispute between a conservative professor and the university that fired
him is going before the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which will hear arguments
this week on whether the firing was the result of a provocative blog post
or his conduct.
Former Marquette University professor John McAdams sued the private
Catholic school in 2016, arguing that he lost his job for exercising his
freedom of speech by expressing his disapproval of what he believes was a
teacher's attempt to shut down a discussion about opposition to gay
marriage.
However, the school has always said that it was not what the professor
wrote that led to his firing, but rather his "doxing" of a graduate
student instructor in a blog post . Doxing is the practice of publicizing
someone's personal identifying information online to subject them to
harassment.
"Had he written the exact same blog post and not included the student-
teacher's name and contact information he would not have been
disciplined," said Ralph Weber, Marquette's attorney. "He's being
disciplined for his conduct, not any viewpoint."
McAdams' attorney, Rick Esenberg, said the doxing argument is
"fundamentally dishonest" and that all McAdams did was link to publicly
available information.
The state Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday.
The case is significant to conservatives, who see universities as liberal
havens that stifle their viewpoints, and to private businesses that want
control over how employees can be disciplined.
In the November 2014 blog post, McAdams described an interaction between a
conservative student and a graduate student instructor of philosophy. The
student claimed the instructor refused to allow discussion about
opposition to gay marriage during a class and provided McAdams with a
recording he secretly made of a conversation with the teacher after the
class.
That formed the basis for McAdams' post, in which he argued that the
students' experience was another example of liberals silencing people
whose opinions they disagree with or find offensive. The post included the
student-teacher's name, a link to her personal website and her email
address, and it led to a flood of hateful messages and threats against
her. The threats were bad enough that the university posted a security
officer outside of her classroom and she noticeably lost weight.
McAdams published his post on his personal website, "Marquette Warrior,"
which he has used for more than a decade to condemn political correctness
and the silencing of ideas that might be hurtful to protected classes,
according to his lawsuit against the school.
McAdams stirred up several controversies in his thousands of blog posts
over the years and the university went out of its way not to punish him
for them, according to a March 2016 report from a faculty committee that
recommended a one-year suspension for the tenured professor. The committee
noted that McAdams had been advised previously, in 2011, not to mention a
student's name on his blog.
"One of the more important obligations that professors have is to take
care not to cause harm, directly or indirectly, to members of the
university community," wrote the committee, which also criticized McAdams
for inaccurately portraying the interaction between the student and
instructor.
The graduate student McAdams named in his blog eventually moved to another
university, where she had to repeat three semesters and revise her PhD
thesis.
McAdams was given the chance to return to work after his suspension,
provided he write a letter apologizing for his conduct, acknowledging his
post "was reckless and incompatible with the mission and values of
Marquette University" and promising to follow to those values in the
future. The letter was to be shared confidentially with the student
instructor but McAdams refused to write it, saying during a talk radio
appearance that he would do so "when hell freezes over."
Esenberg said McAdams didn't write the letter because it would have been
admitting he did something wrong and he doesn't think that's the case.
"What Marquette is doing is they're forcing him to make a Soviet-style
confession," Esenberg said.
A Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of Marquette before
the case went to trial last year, saying the school's disciplinary
proceedings were fair and not a violation of McAdams' academic freedom.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court, which has a conservative majority, can affirm
the decision, return the case to Milwaukee County for a jury trial or
refer it to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. It also could find that
Marquette violated the portion of its contract with McAdams guaranteeing
academic freedom.
The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and National
Association of Manufacturers have filed briefs in support of Marquette.
The Thomas More Society and the National Association of Scholars, both
conservative groups, are supporting McAdams, as well as the American
Association of University Professors and the Foundation for Individual
Rights in Education, which are nonpartisan.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party ran out of gas and got run over by a Trump
truck.
Congratulations President Trump. Thank you for cleaning up the disaster
of the Obama presidency.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he was in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood queer
liberal democrat donors.