The Despicable Actions of SVSU Faculty Members

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On Wednesday, March 19th 2003, the following email was sent to all faculty members and students at Saginaw Valley State University:

To the University Community:

We share our students' confusion, fear, horror, and sadness about the U.S. bombing of Iraq and feel called to address the issue with a Teach-in for Peace.

This event is scheduled on Thursday, March 20 from 9:00 to 12:00 in the Performing Arts Center (526 seats) and in Founders Hall from 9:00 to 2:00 and 6:00 to 8:30. At the teach-in, your faculty colleagues and students will read poetry and will discuss the ethical, historical, psychological, political, and sociological ramifications of the war. A flyer and a schedule should be in your mailbox with Wednesday's mail.

We are inviting faculty to modify your syllabus on Thursday and invite students to join them at the teach-in. We will have moderators standing at each door so students may sign in and out, and we'll send faculty their attendance list. You could also, of course, choose to give your students the choice either to attend or to remain in class, but we are really hoping that many of our colleagues, both faculty and staff, will join us. If you do not teach on Thursday, can you offer your students extra credit for attendance at this important university event?

We cordially invite everyone in the campus community to join us. Call or email one of us if you have questions or comments.

Mary Harmon, mharmon@svsu.edu Professor of English
Rosalie G. Riegle, riegle@svsu.edu Professor of English
Scott Youngstedt, smy@svsu.eduAssociate Professor of Sociology

 

As clearly displayed above, these three faculty members felt the need to ask other professors to cancel their classes and to assign extra credit if their students attended this propaganda meeting.  No effort or action was made to have a fair and balanced view on the world happenings.  Instead these faculty members abused their power and wanted to force their opinions on impressionable college students.  Furthermore, their actions have been endorsed by the administration of Saginaw Valley State University. We, the students of SVSU, are sick and tired of our tuition being wasted and our country being dragged through the mud.


To make matters even better, we have received threats of legal action if this website stays up. Here is an email that we received last week:
To Whom it may Concern, I write to voice my extreme displeasure about the defamatory messages you have posted. I Chair the Department of English at SVSU and I want to communicate that you will face legal suit if you continue to libel these valuable professors in this way. Dr. Elizabeth Rich has cautioned you about copyright issues, and I caution you about libelous actions. Thank you, Janice M. Wolff

Note: there was a copyright issue that was taken care of. We will not be intimidated. The memo above is in the same form that the students received it. Only the email addresses have been added. Further, our observations from actions conducted on the campus are not "libelous". We would like to say that there are fine, upstanding professors at SVSU. It is this handful that is taining the profession actions of the decent professors at SVSU.

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