Professor Fired Over Va. Tech Discussion
BOSTON (AP) - An adjunct professor was fired after leading a classroom discussion about the Virginia Tech shootings in which he pointed a marker at some students and said “pow.” The five-minute demonstration at Emmanuel College on Wednesday, two days after a student killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus, included a discussion of gun control, whether to respond to violence with violence, and the public’s “celebration of victimhood,” said the professor, Nicholas Winset.During the demonstration, Winset pretended to shoot some students. Then one student pretended to shoot Winset to illustrate his point that the gunman might have been stopped had another student or faculty member been armed.
“A classroom is supposed to be a place for academic exploration,” Winset, who taught financial accounting, told the Boston Herald.
He said administrators had asked the faculty to engage students on the issue. But on Friday, he got a letter saying he was fired and ordering him to stay off campus.
Winset, 37, argued that the Catholic liberal arts school was stifling free discussion by firing him, and he said the move would have a “chilling effect” on open debate. He posted an 18-minute video on the online site YouTube defending his action.
The college issued a statement saying: “Emmanuel College has clear standards of classroom and campus conduct, and does not in any way condone the use of discriminatory or obscene language.”
Student Junny Lee, 19, told The Boston Globe that most students didn’t appear to find Winset’s demonstration offensive.
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April 28th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
This is not about politicians, gun rights, or even simply the analyzing the mental illness of the murderer of the students and faculty of Virginia Tech. What should have been done LEGALLY, on that campus, along with every other one in the Uniteted states in the past, was for the Staff, Faculty and administration to HEAR what the students and english professors were saying from the very beginning, stop all the “patchiong up”, like they always have done for decades, and kick that idiots ass out of the university and report him to the FBI, period. I should know, because I was harrassed and threatened by some nut job who was an Resident advisor living at my college dorm for no reason at all, except that I had a roommate who was a cocaine addict and dealer out of the suite, where she also had as many as twenty, so called “friends” over the age of thirty who slept in our dorm suite in a semester, and when I complained about it and asked for a change of dorms I was told that “you should learn to get along better with your roommates”, had the police called on me and they suggested that Ishould either see a psychiatrist, or SHUT UP! I am not surprised about what has happened since Ihave told everyone I can think of about what I was treated like, and still have to explain to people what happened since it ruined my college career, and I am still ignored.