Ethics

Students Questioning Ideas! I'm Suing!

By Ed Brayton

I have to agree with Sandefur that this professor deserves an award for lunacy. A Dartmouth professor is threating to sue her students for not being sufficiently in awe of her silly post-modernist theories about the world.

The latest spectacle is an Ivy League professor threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their "anti-intellectualism" violated her civil rights.

Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of "French narrative theory" that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors, who she says papered over the harassment, as well as a confessional exposé, which she promises will "name names."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).