Quote from: fishbrains on Today at 08:16:36 AMQuote from: AmLitHist on Today at 06:08:47 AMI'm down to 3 people still enrolled in my developmental Comp I co-req class (started at 8). Only 2 of them have a chance at passing the Comp I.
Neither of those 2 showed up to class yesterday.
On the other hand, a woman who dropped the class 2+ weeks ago did show up, so I guess there's that. (I sent her home and went to my office to hang out until the Comp I class started later in the morning.)
I've felt that pain. A super-small co-req course is just another form of walking death. Sometimes a semester just can't end too soon.
Quote from: AmLitHist on Today at 06:08:47 AMI'm down to 3 people still enrolled in my developmental Comp I co-req class (started at 8). Only 2 of them have a chance at passing the Comp I.
Neither of those 2 showed up to class yesterday.
On the other hand, a woman who dropped the class 2+ weeks ago did show up, so I guess there's that. (I sent her home and went to my office to hang out until the Comp I class started later in the morning.)
Quote from: waterboy on Today at 07:02:39 AMPerhaps I missed this, but was there some understanding of what she planned to say that scared off the admins?
QuoteIt cited her social media bio that included a link to a page that calls Zionism a "racist settler-colonial ideology."
QuoteAnuj Desai, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, suggested that Ms. Tabassum could have legal grounds to sue, particularly in light of California law that supports students' First Amendment rights.
"If the reason they're removing her is because of her views, then that just feels much more like a free speech problem," he said. "Ordinarily we would say, beef up the security."
But Mr. Desai said that the university could be warranted in shutting down her speech, if it learned that Ms. Tabassum planned to use the address as a forum, as graduation speakers sometimes do, to discuss their outrage over issues of the day.