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Students back Bailey

I am a student enrolled in John Bailey's course in human sexuality. I feel as though the opinions of the student body of Northwestern University, especially the students who witnessed the act in question, are not being heard properly.

The student body at this esteemed University is in overwhelming support for our professor. Not one student who witnessed the act, in almost two weeks now, has said anything negative about the experience, expressed regret for witnessing the act, or have denoted any action that they were offended in any way. Students were warned of the graphic nature of the act before it happened, and they had the option to leave at any point in time. The negative media coverage our beloved professor, as well as the university, is receiving is absurd and intolerable.

I hear a lot of opinions of alumni and parents of students, but what about the actual students themselves? They are the only demographic being affected by this situation. The vast majority of students believe this situation is being blown completely out of proportion. We want our voices heard. If no students have raised any questions about the act or shown any remorse for enrolling in the class, why has this act reached the level of a "sex scandal?"

I would love to go on record at any point in time and defend my professor. He is an outstanding lecturer and researcher and does not deserve this negative media when his course description clearly states that controversial topics in sexuality will be raised over the duration of the course. This news should no way have reached the national, and now international, level of concern that it has.

Speaking on behalf of the students of Northwestern, we love our professors, and we love our community here in Evanston. This is absolutely outrageous and we want to be heard defending our professor.

-- Brian Stachnik, Evanston

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You must be really narrowing who you define as neo-con. Would you consider Sarah Palin one?

[mises]

Catman, you do not know what you are talking about.

Neo-cons are have only one concern: Israel. Nothing. Nothing else matters.

Here's a nice bit about Podhoretz.

http://www.counterpunch.org/pettifer1214.html

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Sarah was dropped like a hot potato after McCain's defeat and was left with her weird little bunch of GOP embarrassment.

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^When you realize it doesn't really matter who stands behind the podium it opens up all kinds of presidential possibilities in one's mind.

I think at this point I'd rather see this than Obama:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3TOT1lnVTA&feature=related

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You are narrowly defining who qualifies as being a neo-con. At this rate Bush and Cheney don't even make the cut.

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Bush was a tool and Cheney just wants to see what happens.

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This is a fascinating discussion, but c'mon, guys, you got mises' Israel thread for this.

Getting back on topic, here is the view of the man involved in the demo. I wonder if people will be so hysterical they'll call for McDonald's to change its ad firm.

Ad exec in NU sex-toy row defends actions on blog

By Emily Bryson York
Posted Tuesday at 4:01 p.m.

The Northwestern sex toy scandal got another shot in the arm Tuesday afternoon, as a blog post surfaced that quotes the Chicago advertising executive involved in the demonstration defending his actions and castigating the media for mischaracterizing them.

Jim Marcus, creative director of Tribal DDB, the digital division of DDB Chicago, demonstrated the use of a sex-toy on his fiance in a voluntary assembly after a human sexuality class at Northwestern University this month. The news, first reported in the Daily Northwestern, led to a call for the ouster of professor John Michael Bailey.

�This was not about having fun and exposing the world to what we do,� Marcus wrote in an e-mail to the business blog BNET. �It was about being part of an educational offering to a small group of interested students in an optional environment. Since then, the media has shown up at our house, tried to talk to my family, pulled pictures from the web and maliciously misquoted us, using censorship as their excuse for that ethical violation. Writers such as yourself have called upon my place of work, in essence, to fire me.�

In a phone interview about the blog, Marcus, a digital advertising expert, expressed surprise that his e-mails were published. Tribal DDB�s primary client is McDonald�s.

�At the end of the day, people who work in this field are creative, and they�re passionate about things,� he said. �It would be a huge mistake to associate anything I do (outside of the office) with the clients I work with.�

After the demonstration, Marcus said: �I feel like I�ve been held hostage by this issue,� adding he was prepared to �stand up for what I believe in� even if that meant resigning from the firm. �But I�d be sad, and my kids would be sad,� he said. �Because I love my job.�

A spokeswoman said Tuesday that DDB does not comment on �employees non-work-related activities.� McDonald�s did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Not to be outdone, this professor is suing her uni which dismissed her after learning of her second job as a stripper.

The Professor's Night Job

March 14, 2011

A former assistant professor of psychology at John F. Kennedy University in Pleasant Hill, Calif., has sued the institution for sex discrimination, alleging that she was fired for performing in an off-campus burlesque act.

On its own, the federal complaint, filed by Sheila M. Addison last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, raises questions about sex, gender stereotypes and free speech for faculty members. In the context of the recent uproar at Northwestern University, where a professor of human sexuality arranged to have a live sex demonstration take place in his lecture hall after class, some say that Addison�s case also raises concerns about double standards of sexually related conduct as they apply to men and women in academe.

more and burlesque at link

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/262511/teachers-unions-testing-bounds-nuttiness-austin-ruse

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