the real lacc: complaint form magic!!!!!!

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."

Saturday, 10 July 2010

complaint form magic!!!!!!

dear cristy passman,

(fake) LACC ombudsman for discrimination and harassment,

hey thanks for the well wishing!!!!!!!

i think it's time to write up an official complaint on Eckford's cursing at my lawyer, and threatening to kick me out of anthro, and use of the same crude language around me in this coercive meeting may 25, 2010.

in the digital world, i'd hope this email might suffice . . .

but as we are in transition a paper form might be better.

again my address is

xxx

and amazingly the PSU profs are so far 100% mary eng approved in terms of no loose-lipped sexist banter!!!!!

isn't that awesome?????

and so i dont have to complain now about my profs, i also don't have to get a lawyer to defend my attempts to utter free speech complaints about uhhhh, free speech sexism in the classroom . . .

and i don't have to hear my lawyer, keith fink, cursed at over the phone by LACC bigwigs.

keith is a really nice guy and a prof at southwestern and ucla. you should call him and have him explain it to you. you'd be ashamed.

it was super unprofessional of eckford to say what he said the way he said it and it shattered fink's confidence in your school.

he totally got my point about disregard for a professional code of honor or personal sense of dignity.

so i will be happy to write this all up for the welfare of LACC future tense, in addition to filling out the grade grievance.

thanks beaucoups!

mary eng

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: your lawyer is TRASH. He is not a professor at UCLA and has rang up tens of thousands in sanctions in court. He is well known as among the worst and most unethical lawyers in Los Angeles. I would be careful about telling people he is your lawyer as many will not associate with you personally or professionally. I know as I am a former Keith Fink client -- he left me bankrupt and without future prospects of employment; 10 July 2010 at 15:30