News:
A Kansas University professor who used the n-word during a class discussion about race is on leave while the university investigates a discrimination complaint against her.
Andrea Quenette, assistant professor of communication studies, said she was notified Friday morning that five individuals, whose names she does not know, filed a discrimination complaint against her with KU’s Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access. She said her supervisors agreed to her request for a leave of absence with pay until the investigation concludes.
The formal complaint follows more than a week of public criticism perpetuated by graduate students in the communications department. Students have posted messages to Twitter with the hashtag #FireAndreaQuenette, shared a lengthy letter online and complained about her in a Student Senate meeting Wednesday night.
Sparking their outrage was Quenette’s use of the n-word and statements about retention rates at KU and the concept of systematic racism during her Communications Studies 930 class — focused on best practices for graduate students who teach undergraduate classes — on Nov. 12, the morning after KU’s heated university-wide town hall forum on race.
Quenette, who is 33 and has been teaching at KU for two years, said she believes academic freedom protects her comments and that they were not discriminatory.
Comment: At the University of Kansas, a small group of graduate students are intent on destroying the career of a young KU professor. They have complained that she uttered a certain word in class.
The ringleader of the bullies appears to be this person:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amylschumacher
This looks like someone trying to advance her own career by ruining the life of an untenured professor. She’s getting her name in the papers on the side of virtue. It’s unsettling that the strategy may actually work in these strange times.
While these students describe the “pain” and “fear” experienced in their professor’s class, another Kansas woman is learning to live without hands or feet after being shot during an AT&T store robbery. Her injuries led to four amputations:
Middle school counselor has her hands and feet amputated after being shot in the arm and lung during robbery at cellphone store
Julie Dombo, 61, was shot multiple times in the arm on August 11 during a robbery at a Derby AT&T store
Friends and family are raising money for Julie to cover future expenses and have raised over $50,000
Julie will go home from the hospital in the coming weeks and fears it will be a difficult transitionA former middle school counselor has lost all her hands and feet after being shot during a robbery at cellphone store.
Julie Dombo , 61, was shot in the arm and lung on August 11 at a Derby AT&T store in south-central Kansas store.
Because of oxygen deprivation to her limbs while in the hospital, her hands and legs required amputation in early September.
The Wichita Eagle reports that about $54,000 has been raised so far for Julie Dombo on Go Fund Me.
Here is the suspect:
