Right-Wing (Natch!) Student Hounds Professor Running For Office (As Democrat)

[Hissyspit]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_us/professor_video_ambushes

Student hounds prof running for office
By DAVID EGGERT, Associated Press Writer
23 minutes ago

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - A politically conservative student armed with a video camera and a Web site is trying to force a Democratic congressional candidate out of his teaching job at Central Michigan University.

Dennis Lennox, a 23-year-old junior, has posted videos on YouTube of himself questioning assistant professor Gary Peters about campaigning for office while holding a prestigious position at the university. Some say Lennox is persistent. Others accuse him of pandering for attention.

"What I'm doing isn't about getting media attention," said Lennox, a political science major. "I'm speaking for the hundreds of students, alumni, taxpayers and even legislators who have complained because Gary Peters won't pick between Congress and campus."

In one video Lennox posted online, Peters is seen walking to his car while Lennox asks him several questions, including whether he is angry about his campaign not getting "positive press." Peters doesn't respond.

Peters said in an interview this week with The Associated Press that his university position is part-time and privately funded.

"The bottom line is that people who run for public office still need to pay the bills and still need to work," he said. He drives 130 miles from a Detroit suburb to Mount Pleasant to teach class once a week.

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[tanyev]

1. I'll bet the same student would be super-volunteer for any prof who ran for office as a GOP.

[Toots]

2. Maybe the student could take himself and his camera over to Iraq

Capture something of importance instead of how a part time professor has to earn a living while campaigning for public office.

[sendero]

3. Yeah...

... we only want congress persons who are wealthy enough that they don't have to work.

:sarcasm:

What a fucking moron. But oh yeah, he's a young Republican - the stupidest kind.

[zbdent]

4. young republican ... a product of the Me Generation

"It's all about me! ME! ME! ME!"

The ADD generation ...

[BrklynLib at work]

5. I heard that on the news this AM and they did not mention the politics of either person..but I just

KNEW that it would turn out to be as you described...
The right-wing PR is reachign all the way down in to the colleges and it is very disturbing.
More and more like Nazi Germany.

Here are some young Repukes.....ready to go into action...burning books.

[Jim__]

6. What is this clown's compaint?

A professor is running for office? So what? Is it interfering with his duties as a professor? If so, he should be complaining about the professor's failure as a teacher? Is there some kind of rule about professors not running for office? Or does this clown just make it up as he goes along?

[Arkansas Granny]

7. This was my favorite sentence of the article:

When the school told Lennox he couldn't record employees or students without their permission, he filed a censorship complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union, which is reviewing it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071025/ap_on_re_us/professor_video_ambushes

When he doesn't get what he wants, he falls back on the ACLU, that notoriously "liberal" group to help him get permission to harass people.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

8. By the way, you can be 100% sure the prof is NOT using the classroom as a bully pulpit.

Because, if he was, the brownshirt POS would be blathering it to the four winds.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

9. By the way II, the Sequel: Please nominate Dennis Lennox for the Top 10 Conservative Idiots.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10

[iamthebandfanman]

10. he is a 23 year old junior after all