{"id":137610,"date":"2023-11-17T07:33:53","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=137610"},"modified":"2023-11-17T07:33:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:33:53","slug":"professor-rants-about-yaf-club-gets-removed-from-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/professor-rants-about-yaf-club-gets-removed-from-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor rants about YAF club, gets removed from course"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan Tech official apologizes for professor’s behavior<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Students in at least one of Professor Carl Blair’s course will get a new instructor for the rest of the semester after the scholar went on a rant against the campus Young Americans for Freedom group.<\/p>\n

Michigan Technological University Provost Andrew Storer emailed students in at least one of Blair’s courses to apologize for the professor’s behavior and inform them of the change. The history and anthropology professor teaches<\/a> at least four undergraduate courses according to the university catalog and it is not clear if he has been removed from all of them.<\/p>\n

Young America’s Foundation posted audio of Blair ranting during a recent class about a YAF mock Berlin Wall display. “For those of you who weren\u2019t aware of it [the wall], good. For those of you who were aware of it, it was childish, stupid, homophobic, dumb, racist twits. That\u2019s the polite version,” Blair said.<\/p>\n

A leftist student also attacked<\/a> the Michigan Tech display.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re going to try to minimize, the vice president of student affairs and the dean of students have their own plans in part, we in the [faculty] senate are going to minimize our response, because there are, quite bluntly, certain faculty members who are hoping\u2026the students will be censored for this,” he said, as previously reported<\/a> by\u00a0The College Fix<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Storer wrote to students:<\/p>\n

As an institution with a strong research focus, Michigan Tech vigorously supports freedom of speech and academic freedom. We follow the Chicago Principles in this manner. With this, we expect an environment of respect and acceptance of diverse perspectives, perhaps most importantly within our classrooms. We regret this has not been your experience in class this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Provost Storer said class will be cancelled today and students will have a new instructor after Thanksgiving break.<\/p>\n

Blair also called the display “tacky” but said it was not illegal.<\/p>\n

“Stupid, uncollegial, really bad taste, and it shows what a bunch of ying yangs they are,” Blair said. “You know, it\u2019s too bad you all have to deal with things like that. Wasted half my morning dealing with things like that. It\u2019s annoying.”<\/p>\n

“That\u2019s not what college should be about. You know, it should be a place where you could learn, experience, do interesting things, have interesting opportunities \u2013 hint, hint, study away \u2013 uh, rather than wasting your time and having to address idiots,\u201d Blair said. \u201cThey\u2019re idiots out there. Sorry, that\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Michigan Tech professor caught ranting about the YAF chapter’s Berlin Wall display:<\/p>\n

“It was childish, stupid, homophobic, dumb, racist…They can go off and pretend, ‘Oh we’re victims!…We have a constitutional right to be insulting, violent and threatening’…They’re idiots.” https:\/\/t.co\/1NS1NzdU3u<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/cqTaFU5Tz2<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 YAF (@yaf) November 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n