cool story! don’t remember ever hearing it before.

nicely told and your moral is fabulous :-)

Honestly I’m not sure how I feel about this issue.  This is a trend in almost all schools these days.  I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or a bad thing.  I know that the world is not “fair” and that often there are no rules that are adhered to...and I wonder when you get prepared for that if not, at least, in college.  At the same time there are a multitude of ways to teach that don’t have to involve that sort of confrontational process.  But when do you learn to deal with confrontation?  When do you learn to not blow your “case” as result of someone pushing your personal buttons?

wait, is this a cliffhanger?  i hate cliffhangers ...i have hated cliffhangers ever since “who shot j.r”... where si the rest of this story, and why were you taking a pre law class at a business school...us blue collar types are dense.

His heart may have been in the right place, but did that give him the right to reduce one of his students to nothing but a racial construction, complete with a moral imperative ("this how you should behave, given your melanin content")?  My sympathy is highly limited.

My 11th grade American History teacher tried to “spice up” the curriculum by feeding us tidbits of the President’s sex lives. Now, I can only identify them by their fettishes and fornicating-style. Two years (and 10 or 20 pissed off parents) later that teacher disappeared.

Side note: Apparently, my husband has not learned how to use the “Expand” fuction on your page. I’ll school him on it tonight.

Here’s my feeling: Dolfman crossed a line and should have known a lot better - that was a sin of commission.  But his classroom was a place of debate and argument, and he encouraged people to call him on his misstatements and hyperbole - when he told one student “you don’t understand ‘cuz you’re a girl” she lit into him big time and we had a great discussion of equal rights, the 14th amendment, and gender equality.  He had only called on the black student to elicit a response - which never really materialized during the lecture in question.  In response, he should have initiated this discussion himself and made sure no one misunderstood where he was coming from.  Rather than using his crude words as a starting point for constructive discussion, we just left them to fester and spread infection through the campus community.  He was wrong, but he had a lot of company.