Re: Thank you Mr. Smith (#58003)
by Jason Nelson on April 4, 2005 at 3:13 AM

I do not think a legal creation of academics should cause people to look at tenured professors as better than adjunct professors. There is no reason to believe that is true. In a moral sense, in a principled sense, there is NO difference between the two men. All men are created equal, right? I know there is a difference legally, I just do not believe that there should be. If you would defend a tenured professors' Nazism, than I would expect you to defend and adjunct professors' Nazism. On principle, there is no difference. Mr. Luker, perhaps you are more concerned with the law than with principle. At least this is the only excuse I can conjure that you would take such a stand.

Re: Thank you Mr. Smith (#58005)
by Ralph E. Luker on April 4, 2005 at 3:30 AM

Mr. Nelson, When either a tenured professor or an adjunct professor has publicly referred to his or her students as "niggers," it seems to me that he or she has put his job in jeopardy. Given the legal system, it simply is easier to dispatch an adjunct professor than a tenured professor. In fact, however, the official reason adjunct professor Pluss was shown the door was because he missed six classes without an excuse or attempt to make them up. Tenure is recognized in law and it simply isn't to be dismissed as lightly as you continually do. Try to get it clear in your head that I am not a defender of either Pluss or Churchill. You seem to have trouble understanding that _fact_.