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Originally Posted by El-Ka-Bong:

I think rusty is a nagger.  

an old WI joke

 

Q: " Hey Jimmy, is your wife a nagger ? "

 

A: " nah, I married a white girl"

 

 

September 11, 2009

 

To All Medaille Students Taking Dr Uhuru's Courses:

 

As I continue to the conclusion of my teaching employment at Medaille College, I remain ever vigilant regarding my personal and professional conduct, behavior and language. At this writing and this moment during my 30 years of earned employment, the aforementioned practices have been exemplary regarding my adherence to ethical standards applicable to the human condition. With the completion of my doctorate degree in political science from the University of Buffalo and subsequent hiring at Medaille, I made a conscious decision that (a) Buffalo would be my home, and (b) that college classroom teaching would be my life employment raison d'etre. I have actualized both. The learning joys and blessings have been myriad and life enhancing. Throughout, conscious vigilance has been my guidepost. That brings me to why this communication is coming to you at this time.

 

With the establishment of Information Technology becoming the dominant and primary framework for human communication, I was confronted with an employment fait accompli that I would have to learn how to use it. In 2005, I attempted to first systematically introduce this computech medium into my classroom teaching. I have been in neurological overload ever since. I have operationalized a very basic Course Website of which I find the "file management processing" involving 4 different courses very labor intensive. I was made instantaneously aware of it in one of my classes today. I was approached by students who had taken previous classes from me if I still had Course Exercise Responses that they had completed regarding our "history" Thought Provoker.

 

Students who have taken courses with me recognize that I have incorporated this Exercise as an important "Teaching/Learning" method for critically reflecting on the evolution of homo sapiens qua "the human condition. I have also clearly stated that students who take Courses from me would be well served to SAVE "any" Course Info and especially Info pertaining to Exams and Definitions of terms and concepts. My classroom teaching has been that students have already paid for that Course Material and therefore your learning regarding this matter should not require that you have to "start" from a tabula rasa in completing this Exercise in subsequent courses that you take with me. The upshot is that students have been informed that Responses to the "history" Thought Provoker which were completed in "previous" classes can be used in subsequent classes. However, I have emphasized that I will Not go back and see what the Point Eval on any previous response was and would read each submitted response anew.

 

In today's classroom I articulated a "willingness" to provide some very ethical and good students their previous "history" Thought Provoker Exercise Responses. After some very much needed sleep and respite from my 3 classes, my retrospective critical reflection has concluded that this would be a problematical ethical slippery slope had I done so and were I to do so in the future.

 

All students please be informed I have Not Done So and Will Not Do So, Not because there are "X" number of students who are also taking additional Courses with me who could make the same inquiry and request, and thereby requiring me to return to previous Course File Management Processing, but rather because it could allow future allegation of unethical conduct against me. With only a "few" additional years remaining on my intended full time teaching career, any "nuance" of impropriety would be for me a cul-de-sac distraction and neurologically unnerving.

 

The concluding upshot is "that it is" and "must be" the student's personal/individual responsibility to maintain her/his accounting for this and all previous Course Materials. The classroom teaching/learning inquiries and exchanges continue to inform and enhance my life dao and hopefully the same will be for students who take Courses with me during their continued and imperative objective to attain their Baccalaureate Degrees.

 

Peace out,

 

Dr Uhuru

Last edited by Rusty
Originally Posted by phaedrus:

Back to Vernon Davis, I am surprised he is doing this after his seeming restoration from intense self-love that occurred some time after the famous "Singletary undressing Davis" speech.

Armchair psychologists may be wont to dub him a "narcissist"

That would be Culliver. Hit n run incident with a bicyclist. Tried to flee the scene but he was chased down. Then he got out and tried to throw some foil with the "next time you better bring some" brass knuckles. 

 

He tried throwing society off by wearing these to court...

Maybe be he can see his ass in jail now. 

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