Thread: “STOMP ON JESUS” PROFESSOR PROVISIONALLY REINSTATED AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC

“STOMP ON JESUS” PROFESSOR PROVISIONALLY REINSTATED AT FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY
By JOE CALANDRA JR.
Published: June 24, 2013

Professor Deandre Poole became infamous in February for telling his college students to stomp on a piece of paper with the name “JESUS” written on it to demonstrate the power of words and symbols.

Poole was initially put on administrative leave, but has now begun teaching summer school at Florida Atlantic University!

Here is how one local news station covered the controversy surrounding the original incident.

Professor Poole claims that he has received death threats because of his classroom exercise.



Poole says that he is “ecstatic” to have been assigned to teach online only classes for the summer and fall terms. Engaging in distance education will allow Mr. Poole to avoid having to deal with unwanted security concerns.

Poole stated that he is a Christian himself. He argues that he teaches Sunday school at his church and never meant to “denigrate” Christian faith and/or practice.

He believes that his teaching tool was only intended to convey a lesson about how much words and symbols can mean to people.



He argues that the rising controversy over the “Stomp on Jesus” incident has helped to prove his point.

The question no one seems to be asking is, if Professor Poole had asked his students to Stop on Muhammad rather than Jesus, would he have been placed on administrative leave or possibly even terminated from his position?

Had college students stomped on Muhammed’s name rather than Jesus’ a few months ago, as part of an “academic exercise,” would the faculty member who gave that instruction be returning to work to teach online classes?



Would a faculty member who told students to step on Muhammad’s name be making $5,000 teaching his summer course and $43,000 for the 2013-2014 academic year, like Mr. Poole, or would he have been run right out of public higher education?

http://www.libertynews.com/2013/06/s...ic-university/

Dismissed Professor Who Told Students to ‘Stomp on Jesus’ Allowed To Do It Again

Cortney O'Brien | Jul 19, 2013











What if your professor told you to stomp on the One you pray to every night? Well, that’s just what Dr. Deandre Poole, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, asked his students to do in his intercultural communications class when he instructed them to write the name “Jesus” on a piece of paper, throw it on the ground and step on it. While school administrators quickly suspended the student who refused to take part in the ‘Jesus Stomp’ exercise, they only removed Dr. Poole from his position as a matter of safety after he began receiving death threats. Now, the professor who forced students to violate their religious consciences is returning to FAU to teach summer and fall classes, with the questionable “Jesus Stomp” assignment allowed to remain as part of the curriculum.
Back in March, when this controversy erupted, a couple of students on the popular college website RateMyProfessor.com cited Poole’s arrogance and lack of inclusiveness in the classroom. One person wrote, “Prof Poole is a bit arrogant. Most of what is taught here is opinion yet Prof Poole is intolerant of opinions that conflict with his own.” Another student complained Poole is “Disrespectful and dismissive of ideas that he does not agree with. I do not recommend his class.”
These direct student comments and Poole’s conduct seem counter to his faculty description on FAU’s website, which reads, “His research focuses on the role mediated messages play in shaping individual attitudes and beliefs concerning issues of justice and inequality, and examines how leaders, organizations, and other influential authorities dominate and oppress marginalized groups of people.”
I wonder if any of those “marginalized groups of people” include Christians. If Poole had swapped those five letters in his “Jesus Stomp” assignment for A-L-L-A-H, no doubt the politically correct liberal media would be in an uproar and the government would be calling for the school’s demolition.
Sadly, Poole is not the only college professor to recently mock God. Anthea Butler, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, for instance, responded to George Zimmerman’s not guilty verdict by writing on her blog our Lord and Savior is “a white racist God with a problem.”
Poole’s reinstatement at FAU, along with Butler’s inappropriate comment, is yet another indication of the ostracizing Christians face on college campuses. Those who are tasked with teaching children about diversity may want to check their own biases before the bell rings each day.


http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortney...edium=facebook


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