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From: [e-mail] (Ted Krueger)
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Subject: Re: An Apology to Ted
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Date: 21 Dec 92 19:55:34 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Thom F Turner ) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Brian Douglass) writes:
>
>I'd agree with the statement: "What does a person's political affiliation
>have to do with physics?"  If the Physics Department Head had spent more
>time on physics and less time on sending memos to administration (on
>official UA letterhead) comparing gays and lesbians to "gila monsters and
>communists" there wouldn't have been such an interest in "toppling" him
>as department head.

The Physics department head cannot do very much physics due to the continual
demand on his time to fight the university bureaucrats.  This whole
incident was caused by Jay Stauss who ended up receiving a promotion.  So
much for his objectivity.  This type of BS that the new department head will
no doubt have to deal with has been seen in the fact that they are having
problems getting professors to accept nomination for the position.  I know
of a few respected professors that have declined the nomination because
they don't want to have to give up research time to deal with the university.
They resticted their search to the university because they knew there was
no way that they could attract anyone outside the university that was
respectable.

>On PC existing on American Campuses:  The radical right-wing of this
>country believes in a myth, that of the "Politically Correct Movement."
>Anytime someone raises an issue that the right-winger doesn't agree
>with, that right-winger writes it off as part of the "PC Movement"
>thereby trivializing someone's legitimate concern(s).  PC doesn't exist...
>at least not as the Radical Right-Wing likes to believe it exists.  The
>Republican National Convention proved this year that there is a PC
>movement of the Right: either you hate homos and force women to have
>children against their wills and are against affirmative action and
>many other social programs, or you aren't a PC republican.

Thom, with all due respect, why don't you leave campus; go out into the
real world; wander around the country homeless talking to real people and
collecting aluminum cans; turn them in at an Alcoa recycling center; take
the change that you get and put a down payment on a clue.

If you can't see PC in action then you are to sheltered by your presence on
campus.  I think that you have jumped on Jay Stauss and Manny Pacheco's
band wagon in asserting that "we have no PC problems here on campus".  You
have then generalized that it mustn't exist anywhere.  Are you trying to tell
me that Pacheco trying to mandate "sensitivity courses" for the physics
department doesn't smell of PC?  If so, please refer to above paragraph.