--- "Daniel G. Skinner" <dskinner at du.edu> wrote:
> As you can imagine I am not overly confident that
> stating this on an open email system is the best for
> my career- which is why I have avoided naming names
> except for those who, like Oneida, have the attitude
> of "bring em on". However, I am not one to sit idly
> by and watch injustices being perpetuated as
> “equality”. FYI, Oneida and I are presenting a round
> table discussion on this very issue at the American
> Political Science conference in DC next December. I
> am also in the works of submitting this and other
> experiences of junior (read precarious) faculty for
> the "Iraq War Culture" issued by Bad Subjects. One
> of the main components of the ABR and the Republican
> tactics at METRO has been to isolate anti-war
> professors in this witch hunt. I do not think that
> the real momentum for the ABR that began after the
> Iraq war started is a coincidence. If anyone has any
> relevant information- even how to piece such a work
> together or would like to review it and make
> suggestions if/when pos!
> sible I would be greatly appreciative.
>
> To answer some questions:
> I have not had the pleasure of working with the RMPN
> on this issue but have enjoyed some of the events
> they host. I rely on my advisor Alan Gilbert [Marx’s
> Politics, Democratic Individuality etc] for moral
> support and on several affinity groups. I was
> reluctant to tell the department chair about this
> incident and would not have if it were not for the
> encouragement of Oneida. But there is a strange
> power-play there too that I am aware of. I must
> admit that I have received nothing but kind words
> and moral support from the department chair. Of
> course when these emails make the rounds I suppose
> that the need for yet 'another' section of
> Introduction to American National Government will
> disappear, and the need for faculty to teach it will
> follow (I can hear it now, ‘laws of supply/demand
> after all, it was a decision out of our hands’).
>
> True, Kelly was the faculty advisor on paper but
> there were administrative issues because she was a
> toady adjunct like me and the position called for a
> full-time associate/full professor- it appears as if
> strings were pulled. This is not the person in
> question however- the person in question who
> approached me in my shared office was/is operating
> behind the scenes under the cloak of tenure while
> Kelly was left out to dry. It is my understanding -
> and I could be wrong on this- that it is this
> faculty member who was the strong arm behind most of
> the college Republican actions. One of the head
> students of the campus Republicans (there are three
> universities) was hired as an assistant of some
> capacity for the leading member of the Colorado
> senate, who led the campaign to enact the Academic
> Bill of Rights as a state law as I think that link
> you posted explains. While the Republicans did loose
> badly in Colorado I think that it was more an
> indication of the lack-luster economy with !
> rising unemployment heightened by the aspect of
> increasing rental rates and property sales- I rarely
> heard any discussions on the issue of the ABR, when
> I did it was usually reactionary drivel (I live, for
> some unknown reason, in Tancredo’s House District).
> Regardless, there have been instances within the
> college scene at METRO - some that I can go into at
> length once I get the ok from the students involved
> (but will most likely be included in the
> presentation/paper mentioned above) - where the
> college lawyers have washed their hands of any
> culpability and the administration has whitewashed
> disgraceful actions; and I am not discussing the
> mere issuance of grades or presentation of material
> but death threats and threats of rape and torture
> posted to open websites hosted by the Uni allegedly
> made by members of these groups against members of
> the campus group Creative Resistance which is the
> main force of small ‘c’ communist resistance on
> campus and off (when Kelly was allowed!
> to serve as the college Republican advisor it
> opened the door for adj
> uncts and I volunteered to be the advisor for C-Rez
> when Oneida had to resign). Further, it is my
> understanding that the hierarchical nature of the
> beast did not, however, favor everyone, as one is I
> believe on the way out of METRO - but I can not be
> certain of that - while the other lurks and remains
> in a position of hierarchical power.
> Dan
>
>
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