the real lacc: 01/04/2012

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."

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Pepper Community

tuition hiked, so pepper the poor students who protest

this same LACCD board of trustees protected sexual harassment at LACC a sister school of SMCC

there were no tasers yet at LACC

but when the sherriffs office at LACC got occupied for attacking and blaming the woman victim of rape

and law professor kenneth lanzer blamed the rape victim

anthropologist brian bartelt sexually harassed the young latina and asian students

and

sociologist william eckford wanted to talk to me about "vagina" and made my fellow-students cry in special one-on-one sessions and then william eckford told LA Lawyer keith fink to jump in a creek and "i am going to hang up on your dumb ass"

when enquiring about their suppression of my expose blog which documented epithets and slurs in the classroom---

over speaker phone in keith's west LA office

i was starting to get afraid of violence on campus---

as LACC and the board coverred up for the sexist professors who called women "slut" "whore" "tits and ass" "cheesecake" from the LACC classroom.

now women are getting pepper sprayed.

my.

national lawyers guild and anonymous are going to be all over this.