do no harm:


idit dobb-weinstein: "teaching is action and thinking at once. What I try to guard against most when I teach is not speaking as if my answer were conclusive, so as to avoid (to the extent possible) any kind of dogmatic appropriation. It is understandable why students might wish to imitate their teachers, but there are different modes of imitation. I try very hard to avoid the mimetic appropriation that is immediate, passive, and occludes thinking. One other reason is that if I made clear what my views were, and my views appeared as if they were final, it would preclude the possibility of first, students challenging me and second, learning from my students. The relation between the student and teacher is, to me, a dynamic relationship . . . Teaching and learning is a movement that occurs between. In other words, we are at once both agent and patient, both teacher and learner. If we are not very careful, we can do a great deal of harm. And that, too, I have learned from my teachers, Maimonides especially.

I believe my task is to provoke students to think and to engage them in genuine dialogue and questioning. To paraphrase a rabbinic saying, 'I have learned from my teachers, and I have learned from my peers, but I have learned most from my students.' And that is a continuous process of learning."

Friday 7 May 2010

i am so sorry this blog deals with such powerful stuff.
just so you know, i am filing harassment papers and mailing duplicates to the legal affairs department in sacramento.

i know cristy passmanwill push these under the rug, just as earic peters has done with my joseph tolle incident report.

she specifically told me not to send report duplicates to sacramento because then they get on to her about investigating the charges.
it is my right to file with the state chancellor.  i do not appreciate her attempts to restrict my access to administrative remedy.

reports going in the mail today
for:

1. porn graffiti in holmes hall

2. joseph tolle repeatedly grabbing my shoulder and lying when i reported his unwanted touching and screaming at me when i told him not to touch me

3. the ASO harassment of sheila dharod

4. ombudsman for discrimination and harassment cristy passman's attempts to silence me, obstruct justice, and  prevent me access to her forms and grievance procedure, verbal disparagement of my case "generally people take these things in stride."  (this bears similarity to teacher brian bartelt's email to me in which he said "you have no case")



stephen stapleton, a veteran, was harassed by students and professor lewis, who has heretofore been protected by cristy passman.
his studies have suffered due to the time pursuing justice and legal assistance.

as for videos, i really want to make a lot!!!!!

so if you want to talk to me about any issue of harassment on LACC, please email me!!!!

youtube is the future of citizen journalism.

we can make LACC a better place, by exposing the violations.
i want to hear your story!!!!

please email me and we can get going right away.

there is nothing hateful about a dialogue!!!

i really welcome comments, emails, youtube comments, etc.
but please do not curse at me or tell me to "suck it" as one youtube creep did last night.
don't harass me because i want to make my school a better place!!!!

plus i am meeting with school president jamillah moore on may 14 1pm, a friday.
earic peters is invited.

if anyone would like to attend as a part of the equality coalition please email me!!!
i want this to be a team effort and team dialogue!!!!

jamillah was very concerned that the repeated harassment by professors and students is causing a slip in academic performance and anxiety and absenteeism.

she was very concerned and looked quite shocked to find out that we hear the words
"tits and ass" and "slut" and "whore" etc in the classroom.

i believe she did her masters work in equality related issues, so i hope she really cares and that we can motivate her to enact a new level of leadership on campus.

evidently my complaints to Passman never made it to jamillah.
i think that is unfortunate.
as it now stands, i would be embarrassed to be on the payroll of LACC, and hope that our professors can rise to the occasion and activate against the complacency on campus which protects the ongoing abuses.
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