Saturday 15 May 2010
mob cruelty at ASO LACC
civil rights at ASO in question. can a woman be ejected from the student government for exposing school corruption?
jerome robinson!!! he was the first to use the word "lynching."
sadly, scott clapson threatened me with a cease and desist letter from LACCD counsel if i used the word lynching, which was used in the first week's proceedings.
hate-free zone
the signal is quite weak today. hope this publishes.
LACC needs better internet. talked with the moore and peters about IT block of videostream for bambusering classes for disability access. we need online curricula. archived lectures. for the dyslexic, the blind, and for all of us. for the people who can't afford the time spent going to free school at LACC. even if we are poor as dirt, we are rich to afford the luxury of the time it takes to study at free community college.
Vargas is such a great teacher. i am listening to his family law class right now.
had a great time yesterday talking to dr. jamillah moore, president of the university, and to earic peters.
they were supportive of the idea for an Equality Coalition. Earic peters had a lot of good ideas for the social equity club idea. Jamillah encouraged me to finish my paralegal degree and not get too caught up in club ideas. I actually am thinking along the lines of a civil rights study group, looking at the ADA and civil rights acts in terms of how they affect students.
the most telling part was in which i explained that students do not understand the procedure, and that is where the club might serve as an interface, to make the procedure and the law comprehensible and universally understood for all students.
ala
these are your rights
this is what to do if they are infringed upon
do not take it lying down.
blahblahblah.
jamillah said that is what perhaps she and earic as administrators take for granted, that we know what to do, that the process is in the handbook.
i told them how the first time i heard offensive things in class, i stumbled around from room to room, looking for the administrative process, in disbelief.
i told the department chair, but he was unbelievably protective of the abuse.
i felt anxiety, like i had no where to go.
and now, that i am both more knowledgable, and more violated by LACC, i feel that my initial gut instinct, that the offenses were unacceptable in a professional atmosphere---now has given way to the understanding that LACC considers the abuse protectable "free speech" or "academic freedom" even if it is racist and sexist.
i wonder.
i mentioned that a club could be an interface between the policy and the students, who often feel uncomfortable, or submerge their critique with ignorance or distrust of the grievance procedure. while i understand the grievance procedure, i distrust it.
someone from LACCD left an unidentified message on my voicemail explaining that they refer me to christie passman. i duplicated my complaints, so they could be "in the loop."
the sort of pass the buck poker game is a bit entertaining. that they couldn't identify themselves on the message was quite funny. it was like, "hi. not our problem. bye."
i realize there was a procedural error with my 2009 complaint. i found a rules and grievance procedure redux, to which i am entitled copies, which describes my right to make an oral statement to the college president or to the deputy chancellor.
i never was given the opportunity.
jamillah in 2009 referred me back down to CO cristy passman (compliance officer) and now she tells me we cannot talk about my discrimination claim pending the investigation.
quoting from the leaflet outside cristy passman's door
i am going to send this to cristy and ask how she interprets this. i think i have a chance to explain to the decision making bodies, and that this right has been blurred over in the interpretation of the policy.
that is a little bit funny.
interesting class at PSU "emotional abuse in the workplace." My mother tells me the anti-hate speech standards are very strict in the Oregon hospitals where she works, and absolutely no harassment on gender lines, racist, or homophobic is permitted in a professional context.
i like the concept hate free zone.
i wish we could make LACC a hate free zone.
when i see ASO flyers, i tag them with a sharpie, "STOP THE HATE."
deep in the heart of campassion, there is a beautiful future for the students of LACC, and anywhere.
MLK died at 37.
civil rights are not something you can procrastinate.
if your professor disrespects you, or harasses you, do not submerge yourself in shyness, and self-hatred, and submissiveness.
tell the teacher they are making you uncomfortable.
tell them they are violating equality in education statutes.
tell your administrators.
blog it.
and likewise, if you are screamed at by students, or savaged by their cruelty and accusations, speak up.
the ASO for all i can see is a HATE club which cruelly defamed a very wonderful person who i admire. they need a lot more love and cooperation.
i am sorry i ever witnessed what i did.
LACC needs better internet. talked with the moore and peters about IT block of videostream for bambusering classes for disability access. we need online curricula. archived lectures. for the dyslexic, the blind, and for all of us. for the people who can't afford the time spent going to free school at LACC. even if we are poor as dirt, we are rich to afford the luxury of the time it takes to study at free community college.
Vargas is such a great teacher. i am listening to his family law class right now.
had a great time yesterday talking to dr. jamillah moore, president of the university, and to earic peters.
they were supportive of the idea for an Equality Coalition. Earic peters had a lot of good ideas for the social equity club idea. Jamillah encouraged me to finish my paralegal degree and not get too caught up in club ideas. I actually am thinking along the lines of a civil rights study group, looking at the ADA and civil rights acts in terms of how they affect students.
the most telling part was in which i explained that students do not understand the procedure, and that is where the club might serve as an interface, to make the procedure and the law comprehensible and universally understood for all students.
ala
these are your rights
this is what to do if they are infringed upon
do not take it lying down.
blahblahblah.
jamillah said that is what perhaps she and earic as administrators take for granted, that we know what to do, that the process is in the handbook.
i told them how the first time i heard offensive things in class, i stumbled around from room to room, looking for the administrative process, in disbelief.
i told the department chair, but he was unbelievably protective of the abuse.
i felt anxiety, like i had no where to go.
and now, that i am both more knowledgable, and more violated by LACC, i feel that my initial gut instinct, that the offenses were unacceptable in a professional atmosphere---now has given way to the understanding that LACC considers the abuse protectable "free speech" or "academic freedom" even if it is racist and sexist.
i wonder.
i mentioned that a club could be an interface between the policy and the students, who often feel uncomfortable, or submerge their critique with ignorance or distrust of the grievance procedure. while i understand the grievance procedure, i distrust it.
someone from LACCD left an unidentified message on my voicemail explaining that they refer me to christie passman. i duplicated my complaints, so they could be "in the loop."
the sort of pass the buck poker game is a bit entertaining. that they couldn't identify themselves on the message was quite funny. it was like, "hi. not our problem. bye."
i realize there was a procedural error with my 2009 complaint. i found a rules and grievance procedure redux, to which i am entitled copies, which describes my right to make an oral statement to the college president or to the deputy chancellor.
i never was given the opportunity.
jamillah in 2009 referred me back down to CO cristy passman (compliance officer) and now she tells me we cannot talk about my discrimination claim pending the investigation.
quoting from the leaflet outside cristy passman's door
"the college president or deputy chancellor shall independently assess whether the 'preponderance of the evidence' establishes a violation and shall determine what action is taken, if any. Prior to making the decision, the alleged offender and alleged victim shall have the opportunity to make an oral statement, within 15 days from the receipt of the CO report."
i am going to send this to cristy and ask how she interprets this. i think i have a chance to explain to the decision making bodies, and that this right has been blurred over in the interpretation of the policy.
that is a little bit funny.
interesting class at PSU "emotional abuse in the workplace." My mother tells me the anti-hate speech standards are very strict in the Oregon hospitals where she works, and absolutely no harassment on gender lines, racist, or homophobic is permitted in a professional context.
i like the concept hate free zone.
i wish we could make LACC a hate free zone.
when i see ASO flyers, i tag them with a sharpie, "STOP THE HATE."
deep in the heart of campassion, there is a beautiful future for the students of LACC, and anywhere.
MLK died at 37.
civil rights are not something you can procrastinate.
if your professor disrespects you, or harasses you, do not submerge yourself in shyness, and self-hatred, and submissiveness.
tell the teacher they are making you uncomfortable.
tell them they are violating equality in education statutes.
tell your administrators.
blog it.
and likewise, if you are screamed at by students, or savaged by their cruelty and accusations, speak up.
the ASO for all i can see is a HATE club which cruelly defamed a very wonderful person who i admire. they need a lot more love and cooperation.
i am sorry i ever witnessed what i did.
Wednesday 12 May 2010
discrimination in all aspects of education
EDUCATION
* A child has difficulty speaking English, but her school does not provide her with the necessary assistance to help her learn English and other subjects.
* A majority Haitian school does not offer honors classes. Other schools in the district that do not have many Haitian students offer both honors and advanced placement courses.
These examples may be violations of federal law, which prohibits discrimination in education because of a person's national origin. The Division's Educational Opportunities Section enforces these laws in elementary and secondary schools as well as public colleges and universities. The Education Section's work addresses discrimination in all aspects of education, including assignment of students to schools and classes, transportation of students, hiring and placement of faculty and administrators, distribution of school resources, and provision of educational programs that assist limited English speaking students in learning English.
To file a complaint or for more information, contact the Education Section at (202) 514-4092, or write to:
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Educational Opportunities Section, PHB
Washington, D.C. 20530
* A child has difficulty speaking English, but her school does not provide her with the necessary assistance to help her learn English and other subjects.
* A majority Haitian school does not offer honors classes. Other schools in the district that do not have many Haitian students offer both honors and advanced placement courses.
These examples may be violations of federal law, which prohibits discrimination in education because of a person's national origin. The Division's Educational Opportunities Section enforces these laws in elementary and secondary schools as well as public colleges and universities. The Education Section's work addresses discrimination in all aspects of education, including assignment of students to schools and classes, transportation of students, hiring and placement of faculty and administrators, distribution of school resources, and provision of educational programs that assist limited English speaking students in learning English.
To file a complaint or for more information, contact the Education Section at (202) 514-4092, or write to:
U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Educational Opportunities Section, PHB
Washington, D.C. 20530
Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
Prohibition against discrimination; exceptions. No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance, except . . .
Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
(Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688)
Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972
(Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688)
Monday 10 May 2010
STOP THE HATE, speak no violence
hey!
i saw jamillah moore today and she said that our meeting on friday will only be about the future of my "Equality Coalition " club. she is not at liberty to discuss the complaints regarding student, professor or ASO harassment which are undergoing investigation.
i want to apologize to anyone who has looked at this blog.
as i walked across campus today i got tears in my eyes thinking about how much LACC means to me.
i have seen both sides of the academic spectrum in america.
as a poor scholarship kid at a really expensive school, i saw the excesses of the rich kid-frat lifestyle.
it really hurt to have no money for food or clothes and to be surrounded with insanely rich kids with big egos.
going to LACC is so drastically different.
i love the diversity in age groups.
i love the feeling that people who are here really want to be here.
we are making huge sacrifices to go to school.
i love to hear so many languages on campus.
i want to learn armenian, russian, hebrew, Filipino, korean. i want more spanish.
i want arabic too!
i want it all!
i want to embrace the many cultures of LACC and make it a better safer place for all of us.
in a way, my own prejudices run high.
i really don't like a lot of things about american politics and culture.
i don't like the way women are shut out of the political process.
in norway the ministry of equality repaired the system with near 50-50 women and men in balance in government.
i think we could do this too, and i am excited that another woman may sit on the US Supreme court.
as i looked at the collegian today, i realized what a good job they are doing.
i loved the article about the polisci teacher who took inspiration from both malcolm x and MLK.
i felt so sad about the armenian genocide, and the murder of the autistic student by the LAPD in koreatown.
i completely love the fact that they are writing about the lack of healthy food on campus.
the styrofoam really bothers me.
we have to lose the styrofoam!!!
it's illegal in portland oregon!
it leaches into food and is really bad for the human health!
oh my gosh i am so excited about this company they profiled for healthy nutrition vending
http://www.healthyvending.com/
as a vegan on campus, the options are pretty non-existent.
potato chips and french fries from pure luck are well . . . pretty much fried potatoes.
and those have acrylamide, a carcinogen.
raw fruit or veggies would be so much nicer!!
thanks collegian for asking for organic food on campus.
i hope the collegian liked my "press kit" for all the materials i prepared in the last week regarding various acts of hate and intolerance on campus. sexism is alive and well in some communities. we can accept diversity without accepting an abridgment of our rights or dignity.
just because some of our professors come from a male-dominated culture which continually objectifies, ridicules, underpays, and ostracizes women, doesn't mean we should "accept" their attempts to inflict their cultural values on us.
in fact, the powerful will win!
and if we, as students take back our power to resist oppression, resist indoctrination, and resist a blind sheep-like attitude which some of our teachers try to cultivate---we might actually change the classroom dynamic to reflect a more modern viewpoint.
we are more collaborative, more consensus based.
i think young people are very fair.
we are very skeptical!
we don't accept authoritarianism well!
we want to participate and be heard and we don't want to disrespect each other, the earth . . .
human dignity should come first.
at the administration building today, i saw a great quote from mother theresa.
it said, "peace begins with a smile."
i want to offer this challenge to the ASO: stop the hate!
can we have peace on campus, knowing the ASO is using its power to victimize and humiliate fellow students!!!!??????????
my conscience will not allow me to witness this much brutality!!!!
that is why my letters and documents are going out to
the federal office of civil rights, sacramento community college association, the american bar association, the LA county bar association, the student press law center, the GLBT center's legal office, gene little diversity coordinator for LACCD, bet tzedek's holocaust survivor group, and then on campus: cristy passman, lawrence bradford, jamillah moore, joyce moore, and the collegian.
please do not use the word "NAZI" in ASO documents!!! i cannot believe that ASO is so callous!!!!
my roommate just moved out after saying something anti-semitic.
he said, i'm sorry i didn't know you were jewish.
i lost a best friend over that.
i told her she could not say anti-semitic things around me.
another friend and i never saw each other again after a day in which he tried to explain to me his stereotype of "african'american english."
i told him he seemed to be making such a crass generalization, and that after growing up in the south, i could attest to the fact of so many educated eloquent persons of color in many fields.
i spent a semester at the historically black Tennessee State University. it was amazing. that the schools were historically segregated!!! and that the residual racism in the south is high!!! and going to TSU was so empowering!!!! there were so many incredibly focussed academically motivated people going to school there!
i am really sorry too that the learning resource center has been robbed.
i am really sorry that the ASO has been circulating sheila dharod's personal address and telephone number as a part of their defamation campaign.
they didn't even have the insight to black it out!
sheila dharod actually helped me for my anthropology project one day as we discussed the many religions of india. one of our classmates came from an islamic family. sheila explained that in india the many religions can co-exist. she said she had family members that came from the jain tradition.
i really like jainism. gandhi's mother was jain. jains beieve in non-violence (ahimsa) as their highest principle.
the typical hierarchy of violence
1. physical--the obvious---punch, kill, maim, etc
2. verbal--speaking violent words
3. thought---imagining violence, or wishing harm upon someone
is actually a FALSE HIERARCHY!!!
in jain thought--to think violence is as powerful as to physically hurt someone, to verbally attack their character is also the same as to think of hurting someone.
i found this little bit of wisdom in 2003 in a yoga magazine. it really helped me a lot.
so ahimsa--or nonviolence---must be integrated into the speech and the mind.
when the ASO launches a personal attack and says a lot of mean unsubstantiated things about sheila, they are really unleashing a tyrrany of violence, which is impacting all of us.
my compassion has allowed me to feel this in my heart!!
i realized one day, what is going on?
am i trying to turn LACC into some spiritual utopia, where no one says anything rude or unkind?
am i trying to turn it into a mystical vaguely buddhist monastery or something?
as in, am i trying to enforce my cultural ideals on the community???
is there some truth though to the concept of charity, kindness?
my father said, "never say an unkind word."
if you know me or hang out with me, you know that i do not like backbiting, cursing, sexist words, racism.
i wish people would have a more jainistic understanding of language. that the language they use can do real physical harm to the people they inflict it upon.
so all the hatefulness i witnessed at ASO and recorded for youtube just eats my soul.
my teacher brian bartelt, the day of his outburst, was discussing something from his brilliant thesis paper. he references the crystalline structure of water as it can be altered by sound, an idea popular in many meditational practices.
http://spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/consciouswater.html
and with that as premise, if our bodies are water, and sound and thought can change the structure of water, isn't that all the more reason not to abuse each other with words of hate and disrespect.
that my class could vear from so much brilliance to so much banality in a matter of minutes astounded me.
i have really held bartelt to task for some fine-tuning.
he has a clean web trail. i resisted looking him up for weeks, because i resent the invasions of the facebook culture. all i found was this.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/view/usctheses-m220.html
i read it twice and a half.
i would set my text to speech to read it to me so i could really learn it. it's brilliant. in a way, i still have hope. i tend to avoid truly hopeless causes. that i ask bartelt to be more respectful, is because i have faith that it is in the range of possibility. i hope he is smart enough to see now, why it is important. i am sorry his verbal excesses have made it into this blog.
there is a sad weird thing about internet speech.
i have been reading about it here http://www.splc.org/
as a purveyor of the open data ethos and un-intellectual property spirit, i am all for sharing, republication, no rights reserved, replication, copy, alter, remix, distort.
share freely and realize property is an illusion!!!!!!
maybe i should make an LACC rap?
i feel like some of ye olde professors don't know much about the internet.
i think some great entrepreneurs will come up with a YELP for schools, which is better than ratemyprofessors.com, and more comprehensive.
wouldn't that be great???
so when teachers try to get away with crazy stuff in class they really should be prepared to see it go up on to the blogosphere immediately!!!!
and same for fellow students who can't keep there hatefulness to the privacy of their minds, but for some reason, want to spew it all over us like vomit.
ASO, stop the hate!!!
hmmm.
and what is the fine line between peacefulness in speech and satygraha, truth action?
i can't stand by and see so much violence at LACC. it is liek a microcosm of all the worst in humankind, being enacted upon us.
how can i demand justice and peacefulness and move into the future?
how can i forget what i have seen???
if teachers and students continue to be so abusive to each other, i think we will need a better counseling department.
it seems strange to me that people can be so cruel to each other on campus especially in light of alll the columbines and the recent yale murder.
schools can be dangerous places!
please don't contribute to violence.
realize your harassment can induce depression, appetite loss, addictions, even suicide, murder.
don't hurt us with your words.
do not contribute to the suffering which might induce catastrophe!
and if anybody on the campus has violent tendencies, do not push them over the edge with racism, sexism, and other intolerances!
this is dangerous!
teachers!!!!
students!!!!
please!!!!!
STOP THE HATE
LACC stay positive.
the crushed budget has been really hard on us this year.
i am so sorry the summer session is canceled too!
i saw jamillah moore today and she said that our meeting on friday will only be about the future of my "Equality Coalition " club. she is not at liberty to discuss the complaints regarding student, professor or ASO harassment which are undergoing investigation.
i want to apologize to anyone who has looked at this blog.
as i walked across campus today i got tears in my eyes thinking about how much LACC means to me.
i have seen both sides of the academic spectrum in america.
as a poor scholarship kid at a really expensive school, i saw the excesses of the rich kid-frat lifestyle.
it really hurt to have no money for food or clothes and to be surrounded with insanely rich kids with big egos.
going to LACC is so drastically different.
i love the diversity in age groups.
i love the feeling that people who are here really want to be here.
we are making huge sacrifices to go to school.
i love to hear so many languages on campus.
i want to learn armenian, russian, hebrew, Filipino, korean. i want more spanish.
i want arabic too!
i want it all!
i want to embrace the many cultures of LACC and make it a better safer place for all of us.
in a way, my own prejudices run high.
i really don't like a lot of things about american politics and culture.
i don't like the way women are shut out of the political process.
in norway the ministry of equality repaired the system with near 50-50 women and men in balance in government.
i think we could do this too, and i am excited that another woman may sit on the US Supreme court.
as i looked at the collegian today, i realized what a good job they are doing.
i loved the article about the polisci teacher who took inspiration from both malcolm x and MLK.
i felt so sad about the armenian genocide, and the murder of the autistic student by the LAPD in koreatown.
i completely love the fact that they are writing about the lack of healthy food on campus.
the styrofoam really bothers me.
we have to lose the styrofoam!!!
it's illegal in portland oregon!
it leaches into food and is really bad for the human health!
oh my gosh i am so excited about this company they profiled for healthy nutrition vending
http://www.healthyvending.com/
as a vegan on campus, the options are pretty non-existent.
potato chips and french fries from pure luck are well . . . pretty much fried potatoes.
and those have acrylamide, a carcinogen.
raw fruit or veggies would be so much nicer!!
thanks collegian for asking for organic food on campus.
i hope the collegian liked my "press kit" for all the materials i prepared in the last week regarding various acts of hate and intolerance on campus. sexism is alive and well in some communities. we can accept diversity without accepting an abridgment of our rights or dignity.
just because some of our professors come from a male-dominated culture which continually objectifies, ridicules, underpays, and ostracizes women, doesn't mean we should "accept" their attempts to inflict their cultural values on us.
in fact, the powerful will win!
and if we, as students take back our power to resist oppression, resist indoctrination, and resist a blind sheep-like attitude which some of our teachers try to cultivate---we might actually change the classroom dynamic to reflect a more modern viewpoint.
we are more collaborative, more consensus based.
i think young people are very fair.
we are very skeptical!
we don't accept authoritarianism well!
we want to participate and be heard and we don't want to disrespect each other, the earth . . .
human dignity should come first.
at the administration building today, i saw a great quote from mother theresa.
it said, "peace begins with a smile."
i want to offer this challenge to the ASO: stop the hate!
can we have peace on campus, knowing the ASO is using its power to victimize and humiliate fellow students!!!!??????????
my conscience will not allow me to witness this much brutality!!!!
that is why my letters and documents are going out to
the federal office of civil rights, sacramento community college association, the american bar association, the LA county bar association, the student press law center, the GLBT center's legal office, gene little diversity coordinator for LACCD, bet tzedek's holocaust survivor group, and then on campus: cristy passman, lawrence bradford, jamillah moore, joyce moore, and the collegian.
please do not use the word "NAZI" in ASO documents!!! i cannot believe that ASO is so callous!!!!
my roommate just moved out after saying something anti-semitic.
he said, i'm sorry i didn't know you were jewish.
i lost a best friend over that.
i told her she could not say anti-semitic things around me.
another friend and i never saw each other again after a day in which he tried to explain to me his stereotype of "african'american english."
i told him he seemed to be making such a crass generalization, and that after growing up in the south, i could attest to the fact of so many educated eloquent persons of color in many fields.
i spent a semester at the historically black Tennessee State University. it was amazing. that the schools were historically segregated!!! and that the residual racism in the south is high!!! and going to TSU was so empowering!!!! there were so many incredibly focussed academically motivated people going to school there!
i am really sorry too that the learning resource center has been robbed.
i am really sorry that the ASO has been circulating sheila dharod's personal address and telephone number as a part of their defamation campaign.
they didn't even have the insight to black it out!
sheila dharod actually helped me for my anthropology project one day as we discussed the many religions of india. one of our classmates came from an islamic family. sheila explained that in india the many religions can co-exist. she said she had family members that came from the jain tradition.
i really like jainism. gandhi's mother was jain. jains beieve in non-violence (ahimsa) as their highest principle.
the typical hierarchy of violence
1. physical--the obvious---punch, kill, maim, etc
2. verbal--speaking violent words
3. thought---imagining violence, or wishing harm upon someone
is actually a FALSE HIERARCHY!!!
in jain thought--to think violence is as powerful as to physically hurt someone, to verbally attack their character is also the same as to think of hurting someone.
i found this little bit of wisdom in 2003 in a yoga magazine. it really helped me a lot.
so ahimsa--or nonviolence---must be integrated into the speech and the mind.
when the ASO launches a personal attack and says a lot of mean unsubstantiated things about sheila, they are really unleashing a tyrrany of violence, which is impacting all of us.
my compassion has allowed me to feel this in my heart!!
i realized one day, what is going on?
am i trying to turn LACC into some spiritual utopia, where no one says anything rude or unkind?
am i trying to turn it into a mystical vaguely buddhist monastery or something?
as in, am i trying to enforce my cultural ideals on the community???
is there some truth though to the concept of charity, kindness?
my father said, "never say an unkind word."
if you know me or hang out with me, you know that i do not like backbiting, cursing, sexist words, racism.
i wish people would have a more jainistic understanding of language. that the language they use can do real physical harm to the people they inflict it upon.
so all the hatefulness i witnessed at ASO and recorded for youtube just eats my soul.
my teacher brian bartelt, the day of his outburst, was discussing something from his brilliant thesis paper. he references the crystalline structure of water as it can be altered by sound, an idea popular in many meditational practices.
http://spiritofmaat.com/archive/aug1/consciouswater.html
and with that as premise, if our bodies are water, and sound and thought can change the structure of water, isn't that all the more reason not to abuse each other with words of hate and disrespect.
that my class could vear from so much brilliance to so much banality in a matter of minutes astounded me.
i have really held bartelt to task for some fine-tuning.
he has a clean web trail. i resisted looking him up for weeks, because i resent the invasions of the facebook culture. all i found was this.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/search/controller/view/usctheses-m220.html
i read it twice and a half.
i would set my text to speech to read it to me so i could really learn it. it's brilliant. in a way, i still have hope. i tend to avoid truly hopeless causes. that i ask bartelt to be more respectful, is because i have faith that it is in the range of possibility. i hope he is smart enough to see now, why it is important. i am sorry his verbal excesses have made it into this blog.
there is a sad weird thing about internet speech.
i have been reading about it here http://www.splc.org/
as a purveyor of the open data ethos and un-intellectual property spirit, i am all for sharing, republication, no rights reserved, replication, copy, alter, remix, distort.
share freely and realize property is an illusion!!!!!!
maybe i should make an LACC rap?
i feel like some of ye olde professors don't know much about the internet.
i think some great entrepreneurs will come up with a YELP for schools, which is better than ratemyprofessors.com, and more comprehensive.
wouldn't that be great???
so when teachers try to get away with crazy stuff in class they really should be prepared to see it go up on to the blogosphere immediately!!!!
and same for fellow students who can't keep there hatefulness to the privacy of their minds, but for some reason, want to spew it all over us like vomit.
ASO, stop the hate!!!
hmmm.
and what is the fine line between peacefulness in speech and satygraha, truth action?
i can't stand by and see so much violence at LACC. it is liek a microcosm of all the worst in humankind, being enacted upon us.
how can i demand justice and peacefulness and move into the future?
how can i forget what i have seen???
if teachers and students continue to be so abusive to each other, i think we will need a better counseling department.
it seems strange to me that people can be so cruel to each other on campus especially in light of alll the columbines and the recent yale murder.
schools can be dangerous places!
please don't contribute to violence.
realize your harassment can induce depression, appetite loss, addictions, even suicide, murder.
don't hurt us with your words.
do not contribute to the suffering which might induce catastrophe!
and if anybody on the campus has violent tendencies, do not push them over the edge with racism, sexism, and other intolerances!
this is dangerous!
teachers!!!!
students!!!!
please!!!!!
STOP THE HATE
LACC stay positive.
the crushed budget has been really hard on us this year.
i am so sorry the summer session is canceled too!
mark ferem on LACC graffiti
noted connoisseur of graffiti chimes in regarding the beauties of razorblade art on the toiletseats at LACC.
regarding the huge display in holmes hall, i am now really honored now that it dawns on me who he is.
he is a sociologist of bathroom graffiti and has published books about it!!
he was recommended to me by dan diamond, art expert, educator, and academic advisor.
so maybe LACC graffiti can make it into his books or websites. keep your fingers crossed.
http://www.itsallinthehead.com/
he liked the stmt :"i demand better graffiti"
he writes
regarding the huge display in holmes hall, i am now really honored now that it dawns on me who he is.
he is a sociologist of bathroom graffiti and has published books about it!!
he was recommended to me by dan diamond, art expert, educator, and academic advisor.
so maybe LACC graffiti can make it into his books or websites. keep your fingers crossed.
http://www.itsallinthehead.com/
he liked the stmt :"i demand better graffiti"
he writes
"as for better graffiti does the razor blade on the toilet seat sound better or worse???", it cuts both ways...this aired sat. should be available online or podcast soon... yeah same here say hey if I see you or you recognize me ahhaha downtown artwalk this thur. maybe I've seen you there? ...the author/playwrite who wote "Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolfe", found the title in a restroom |
the federal office of civil rights etc.
can't wait to mail this off and hand deliver a few . . . so much time and money at kinkos!
maybe i should send one to the LA county bar.
maybe i should send one to the LA county bar.
i think the student press law club should get a copy too . . .
maybe even bet tzedek, the legal group who represent holocaust survivors in LA . . .
maybe even bet tzedek, the legal group who represent holocaust survivors in LA . . .
5-9-10
Dear Office of Civil Rights, Gene Little, Jamillah Moore, Cristy Passman, Lawrence Bradford, ABA standard committee on paralegals, and LACC Collegian.
RE: Los Angeles City College Harassment
Thank you for looking over my reports. I am dismayed that the incidents of harassment and hostile atmosphere towards women and minorities are so severe at LACC that i feel that i must complain to all of you.
I believe paralegal student Sheila Dharod's privacy has been breached in the circulation of ASO files to the public if they attended the LACC ASO meetings 5-4-10.
Her number and address are on the circulating "evidence" that was offerred to the public.
The word "Nazi" is used on the SCCC memo. The ASO reproduction of this memo and recirculation of this memo (as evidence against Sheila), i consider embarrassing and offensive to holocaust survivors.
Many students spoke out against the defamation campaign waged to eliminate Sheila Dharod from student government after she exposed ASO members drinking, for calling out President James Butler-Zetino's attempt to seduce a an underage woman who he fed drinks at the SCCC affair, and for calling out ASO on numerous procedural errors.
The underage woman is filing criminal charges against the current ASO president.
I was screamed at by ASO VP for finance Joseph Tolle under the election tent wed 4-28-10 at 6:30 pm, when i told him not to touch my shoulder. He immediately lied to cover for himself, as he then did the next day to Earic Peters, saying that i screamed and touched him first, both untrue.
I made an incident report with the sheriff on campus.
Professor Bartelt of LACC anthropology repeated the phrase "show your tits" twice 4-16-10, in class. i politely asked him to speak more respectfully of breasts. He said, "what? I don't know what you are talking about?" and i said "well when you use the word tits . . ." he then shouted "what? tits and ass?"
A few weeks before he made jokes about Margaret Thatcher being a man. He also proclaimed a theory about transvestites showing women how to be real women, a comment which i find offensive both to transvestites, and to women.
He wrote me a very disgusting email defining the word "tit" 4-17-10 which i found to be both insulting to my intelligence, and harassing.
Richard Lewis in the paralegal department spoke profusely of hookers and prostitution repeatedly all semester spring 2009. He also publicly harassed a woman of color, Talissa Love, humiliated her, and graded her poorly. She missed class to avoid the harassment. She told me she was also harassed by her gym teacher.
Veteran Stephen Stapleton told me that Paralegal instructor Richard Lewis screamed at him in the courtyard. Andrea Bari witnessed this. Bari dropped his class with Richard Lewis because it is intolerably inane and offensive. Andrea Bari started an Intellectual Property student club to make up for the huge deficit in the department offerings. While Richard Lewis purportedly teaches "media law" he mainly talks about TV shows and makes sexual jokes.
My friend Eric Hamilton said his english teacher was sexist so he dropped the class.
ACLU campus club founder Lawrence Vasquez told me his teacher was saying negative things about "Mexicans."
Spring 2009, Kenneth Lanzer in the paralegal department spoke of "dumb woman," "horrible woman." He said "if i told a sstudent she would make more money as a slut walking the streets at hollywood and vine, than as a paralegal, would that be an example of defamatory speech?" He often bitterly references his divorce.
Two women students have been asked out by Lanzer, and one has dropped his class because of it.
I dropped my legal writing class with him because he makes me uncomfortable.
One of my classmates in 2009 told me there is a sociology professor who talks about male masturbation repeatedly, when i asked if they had similar experiences in class.
Professor Vargas in the paralegal program brought in a film to criminal law class with the words "whore" and "chink" and "spik" and "nigger." I found this bizarre, as he is a very good teacher otherwise. I complained, and he has had no following lapse of judgement. He thanked me for my complaint.
Professor Duffy in the law department makes jokes about women being "cheesecakes" and about the wife who eats bon-bons all day and gains 100 pounds and tries to take her husband's fortune. he also could not answer the legal question of property division in same sex marriages in the state of California during the brief window that these occurred, repeating the definition that "marriage is between a man and a woman." His tone was perceptibly stern with the gay male who helped follow up on my initial question, which followed the bon-bon comment in property law. He also joked that stdents could sit in eachother's laps if they were attractive enough.
Professor Cabellero, in Administration of Justice, makes repeatedly sexist statements. I never reported this until this letter. He also seemed to unfairly target very young latina girls, and make them the subject of his internalized racism.
The large male anatomical graffiti in the women's room in Holmes Hall where most of the law classes occur, which reads "suck it bitch" and has been in the bathroom for over a year.
My reports:
1. the harassment and defamation of Sheila Dharod by the ASO as protected by Dean Peters, who told me the ASO does not assist discrimination complaints. Invasion of privacy, use of the word "Nazi" in a joking manner.
2. the physical harassment and verbal harassment of ASO VP for finance Joseph Tolle, who lied to Peters. Peters tried to tell me the physical component was not the important part of the incident report. Tolle repeatedly touched me, as i pulled away he said "I'm sorry." Then when he touched me again, and i told him not to, he screamed at me with many witnesses present. I am scared to be around people like this with obvious anger issues. I do not think he should be allowed to be near the ASO building, because i do not feel safe there and he may have another outburst. I saw him putting his hands on another ASO member/female student, whose character was being attacked for the excessive alcohol consumption which occurred on the ASO SCCC trip.
3. Cristy Passman's failure to take my claims seriously and attempts to prevent me access to the forms to make formal complaints, and her discouraging me from my right to send reports to Sacramento
4. Bathroom graffiti which is both sexist and pornographic
5. sexist and homophobic comments by law professor Tom Duffy
6. sexist epithets and shouting by Anthropology Professor Brian Bartelt
7. 2009 complaint regarding law professors Lewis, and Lanzer, the Vargas screening of an extremely violent and verbally epithetical film in criminal law, and Department Chair Tim Sweetman's protection of the abuse.
I am looking forward to meeting with President Jamillah Moore on May !4th at one p.m. She seemed truly horrified when i told her about the anxiety and grief i have experienced as a result of the poor academic quality at LACC and ubiquitous harassment.
She seemed dismayed that i have missed classes, tests, and dropped classes as a result of the abuse. I told her the anxiety caused me appetite loss as well as depression.
i fear that immediate action from a high level and a lawsuit are the only things that will help out the carnival know as LACC.
I am dismayed that department chair Tim Sweetman and Ombudsman for Discrimination and harassment Cristy Passman are so protective of abuse.
My educator friends at other schools have told me this kind of activity would lead to immediate suspensions.
I have spent hours of grief documenting this abuse, discussing it with other students, and blogging it. I feel the adverse effect to my educational experience to be an extreme violation of my guarantee of equality in education.
Eric Kim, LCC district counsel asked me to take down my blog, supposedly for intellectual property reasons.
i wish you all would do more to prevent future abuses and punish those who have abused the students of LACC.
Please feel free to call me.
I would like to spur the initiation of an Equality Coalition to address sexist, racist, and homophobic speech in the classroom and on campus.
Please protect future students and consider LACC worthy of your investigation.
Proactive measures are needed.
ABA bar certification should not proceed until quality control standards are met.
Initially, I was shocked that my teachers seemed so ignorant of modern day sexual harassment standards. I felt that they were actively trying to get fired and retired. Now that i see that this kind of abuse is widespread and protected on LACC campus, i feel very sorry that i have wasted so much of my energy at a paralegal program with so little self-respect and at a school that protects and in fact encourages verbal abuse.
Honorably,
Mary Eng
maryeng1@yahoo.com
re: "i demand better graffiti"
mark ferem writes. actually should i publish the razor blade tagging-on-the-toilet-seat graffiti? is it better or worse?
i mean literacy is great, but really, toilet seat literacy . . . is so . . .
Sent: Sun, May 9, 2010 10:59:28 PM
Subject: Re: LACC graff
i mean literacy is great, but really, toilet seat literacy . . . is so . . .
Sent: Sun, May 9, 2010 10:59:28 PM
Subject: Re: LACC graff
That sounds like a great quote..."I demand better graffiti", that should be next to the piece. Hi Mary... Mark here...thanks for the insight...is the shot in the women's restroom, by a women? Interesting content on your blog...polticos served by LACC. |
Sunday 9 May 2010
socialists who support slaughterhouse labor exploitation and yet fight Arizona immigration reign of terror
questions for the socialism conference at LACC:
read more about the people who hosted the conference here:
http://www.pslweb.org/site/PageServer
i really appreciate the fact that women and men are involved in their leadership, and that they are anti-racist, and on some levels fight racist immigration policy.
but i am concerned about the support of slaughterhouses which rely on deportable "illegal" laborers who have a high injury rate.
in light of the scientology labor law scandal, http://www.scribd.com/doc/13912796/Complaint-Laura-A, or the nonprfit labor law violations that occur at mainsteam left fundraisers like telefund http://www.futuremajority.com/node/534 and the FUND and the PIRGS, it concerns me when ideological groups heavily staff their organization with unpaid peons so a few top togs can make off with bank.
just curious.
what is the perspective of the party for socialism and liberation on factory farming in america, especially in light of the meat luncheon at the conference?
you seem to care about the crisis in Arizona regarding immigration.
aren't slaughterhouses a huge locus of labor exploitation of immigrant workers?
why not boycott meat?
are there any similarities to scientology and or other religious groups, in terms of your educational programs?
what are the requirements for the six month training candidacy program, and is it paid?
do you follow labor law?
what percentage of the work done for your group is done by volunteers?
when you reference che guevara, are you endorsing violence?
i heard he was a murderer. is it is true?
read more about the people who hosted the conference here:
http://www.pslweb.org/site/PageServer
i really appreciate the fact that women and men are involved in their leadership, and that they are anti-racist, and on some levels fight racist immigration policy.
but i am concerned about the support of slaughterhouses which rely on deportable "illegal" laborers who have a high injury rate.
in light of the scientology labor law scandal, http://www.scribd.com/doc/13912796/Complaint-Laura-A, or the nonprfit labor law violations that occur at mainsteam left fundraisers like telefund http://www.futuremajority.com/node/534 and the FUND and the PIRGS, it concerns me when ideological groups heavily staff their organization with unpaid peons so a few top togs can make off with bank.
just curious.
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