Vote for the Worst American Professor!

Here's some clips that I like:

Algar: http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/718

Bazian: http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=05-25-04&storyID=18929

Schell: http://www.minimumsecurity.net/aboutme/writing/schell.htm

Am I right that he left out anyone he'd have too much difficulty understanding?

Once they get into my course (required for graduation), Advanced America-Blaming and Applied Appeasement of Terrorists, they are graded primarily on attendance and recitation. They are also required to turn in two essays, one in which they blame America first, the other in which they propose a strategy for appeasing a terrorist enemy. I am very strict about these essays. I demand that their essays conform to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Sixth Edition, and that they spell America with a k. (Extra credit for three k’s!)

The results are quite dramatic. Many of my students come from conservative backgrounds, but by the tenth week of class, they can chant “all power to the Supreme Soviet” with the best of them. Basically, we party like it’s 1929. At the end of the semester, they leave my classroom and plaster the campus with posters reading “Meat is Murder” and “Bush is Hitler.” Two years ago, one enterprising student came up with a “Meat is Hitler” poster. I have recommended that student to some of the nation’s top graduate schools.

he is 40 billion x smarter than horovitz obv but WHO THE FUCK ISN'T?

I mean, Juan Cole is on there, fer chrissakes

I'm amazed that anyone writing about the Catholic Worker and liberation theology ever got hired at Baylor. Somebody must have been asleep at the wheel that day.

horowitz makes my skin crawl. he really is a case of someone massively (pathologically) overcompensating for a regretted ultra-leftist fling in the 1970s.

From the Inside Flap

Coming to a Campus Near You: Terrorists, racists, and communists— you know them as The Professors.

We all know that left-wing radicals from the 1960s have hung around academia and hired people like themselves. But if you thought they were all harmless, antiquated hippies, you’d be wrong. Today’s radical academics aren’t the exception—they’re legion. And far from being harmless, they spew violent anti-Americanism, preach anti-Semitism, and cheer on the killing of American soldiers and civilians—all the while collecting tax dollars and tuition fees to indoctrinate our children. Remember Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor who compared the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks to Nazis who deserved what they got? You thought he was bad? In this shocking new book, New York Times bestselling author David Horowitz has news for you: American universities are full of radical academics like Ward Churchill—and worse.

Horowitz exposes 101 academics—representative of thousands of radicals who teach our young people—who also happen to be alleged ex-terrorists, racists, murderers, sexual deviants, anti-Semites, and al-Qaeda supporters. Horowitz blows the cover on academics who: — Say they want to kill white people. — Promote the views of the Iranian mullahs. — Support Osama bin Laden. — Lament the demise of the Soviet Union. — Defend pedophilia. — Advocate the killing of ordinary Americans.

David Horowitz’s riveting exposé is essential reading for parents, students, college alums, taxpayers, and patriotic Americans who don’t think college students should be indoctrinated by sympathizers of Joseph Stalin and Osama bin Laden.

The Professors is truly frightening—and an intellectual call to arms from a courageous author who knows the radicals all too well.

Juan Cole does History of the Middle East & South Asia at Michigan, and writes a relatively prominent blog critical of much going on. He pops up on NPR/Air America from time to time.

remember that horowitz had a shtick about how slavery was good in the end becuz it exposed spear-chucking africans to the amazing advances of western enlightenment.

i really wanted e11a sh0hat to be on this list.

Here's a stab at it:

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f15/polyphonique/ride_with_hitler.jpg

(ie more dialectic-of-schoolroom-vs-hallway, as a dangerous intellectual of this parish would put it, except he wouldn't use the word "dialectic")

my friend who goes to rutgers, coincidentally, is taking a class right now where the professor rambled at length in the SYLLABUS that he will, without question, challenge and refute any student in his class who attempts to prove to him that marxism is in any way a good idea. which is sort of weird.

this guy, too ...

http://www.nndb.com/people/453/000026375/rj2-crop.jpg

none of my professors are on the list. none of the stereotypical turn offs really bother me - only administrivia types - they're the worst - but sadly i wonder if that's how i taught during my brief stint.

Amiri Baraka Rutgers University, Stony Brook

(btw Amiri Baraka did once teach at a Rutgers University that actually EXISTS, but that was in the 1970s.)

I'm a Cal (that's Berkelol to Horowitz) alumna, and I don't remember any of these profs nominated. I'm probably too old. I remember Todd Gitlin, but I guess he moved on to Columbia. Oh, and I do remember Horowitz's silly campaign in campus papers.

I liked Berube's response. If Berube is representative of Horowitz's shitlist, then they're in good company.

Proper MLA documentation is important, damn it!

YOU KNOW IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

They gamed it, these guys are out and out communists, they are radicals, you know some of them killers, and they are propagandists of the first order and they don't want anybody else except them...

beware!

ihttp://www.ukmusicsearch.co.uk/reviewimages/killers.jpg

These communists will beat you up!

Must be the liberal media bias.

I never connected this with that moronic ad...our newspaper ran it, but as the humor page editor, I was allowed certain (ahem) questionable footnoteing and copy editing priveleges.