Thanks, Ace.

And to your commenters, if you have second, please contact professor Wally Hettle's Dept Chair to let him know that you find such behavior reprehensible.

The University of Northern Iowa history dept. chair is Dr. Robert Martin. He can be reached here: Robert.Martin@uni.edu.

So, we shouldn't bombard him with photos of The Naked Testicle Spideyman?

It's interesting that, although many posters called Paul a troll, they were the ones delivering the profanity and the cheap shots, just like the trolls on this and many other right wing sites.

Paul was perfectly civil. He didn't deserve to be banned, let alone attacked by Hettle.

Also, did you notice the webmaster's emotional/intellectual insecurity when she characterized Paul as 'determined to show how much smarter he is than the lady professor'? This woman clearly has some issues.

But I don’t troll conservative academic sites.

cause he can't find any?

Why punish this guy any further? He already has to get up & go to work at the "University" of Northern Iowa. That's "NORTHERN" Iowa, not Iowa State or Iowa. Sure, they put Bryce Paup & Kurt Warner in the NFL, but I don't think any graduates of the UNI history department have been showing up on the weekend talking head shows.

For those toiling in the graduate student salt mines, check out Iowahawk's comment on the protein wisdom thread.

Funny, and scary, cuz it's true.

So, Ace, about tomorrow -- is it going to be live or Memorex?

Nobody has noted that Paul misused "your"/"you're" on his first post. PhD candidate? Boy, how the bar has been lowered.

Yeah, yeah, I know, just a comment on a Web site. Whatever.

After I read the "non-harrassment" policy of my grad school I decided to stop blogging all together. If I use the acronym "BC" instead of "BCE" in a paper, I can be punished for offending the sensibilities of non-Christians. It is absolutely ridiculous. If I didn't have to get the degree to keep my job I would drop it in a New York minute.

Professor Wally is an interesting character. I like the book he wrote about how the Civil War-era Democrats were really Republicans in disguise.

Dacotti, hang in there. (That's what I keep telling myself, anyway). He who laughs last ...

Freedom of expression is limited by what is offensive to those in power, and those in power in academia are left-wing extremists at best, somewhere left of communism at worst (you know, like Pol Pot and Uncle Joe). Academic freedom and academic freedom of expression have nothing to do with being able to express a contrarian view.

Even if the "contrarian view" is expressed as an example, the person expressing such a view is roundly criticized. Just ask the poor sucker from "Hawved" who had the gall to use a theoretical example of (gasp) men being better than women (double gasp) in certain disciplines! Not that he said they were, but that he said WHAT IF THEY ARE? Such heresy cannot and will not be tolerated by absolute dictatorships.

And in answer to rho, yes, academic standards have been lowered. That's what happens when grades are thrown out or rendered meaningless, and when entry requirements are lowered to allow "diversity".

Russ-

Sure, they put Bryce Paup & Kurt Warner in the NFL, but I don't think any graduates of the UNI history department have been showing up on the weekend talking head shows.

Well, Warner did learn enough to stock shelves at the grocery store...