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Bigotry and Distributive Justice
For three decades, humanities departments have based their decisions upon discriminatory special group preferences thinly disguised as reparation for past injustices. Moreover, through preferences based on race or gender they have employed unqualified faculty members imbued with cultic ideologies.
These ideologies often conflict with the world view of many students whom they should serve. Enforced group preferences conflict with individual learning processes. They restrict the critical thinking that allows students to accumulate knowledge without indoctrination.
Essentially bigoted, distributive justice policies promote special interests and ideologically contrived courses. They favor economically advantaged groups and disadvantage less fortunate individuals unconscionably and unconstitutionally. [01] These “interdisciplinary” courses do not stretch the mind through critical inquiry but instead dupe unwilling students into ideological pursuits that lack intellectual discipline. They result from egotistical calculation.
Two examples show how these trendy new required courses lure unsuspecting students into registering for Rensselaer courses that exempt them from disciplinary learning. [02] If students complain then administrators have them arrested by campus police on trumped up charges of violence.
Students' names withheld by request. This avoids retaliation by the lawless Rensselaer mafia. Mafia members owe allegiance only to each other and maintain omerta (oaths of silence). They dispense with those who break that oath with a swift collegial “bullet behind the ear” (expulsion without due process of law).
The First Amendment to the US Constitution applies to both journalists and students. State and federal laws allow journalists to refuse to disclose their sources. Nmesis extends this benefit to Contra Cabal correspondents to protect them from retaliation for breaking the collegiate oath of silence. Verification entails using more than one source.
Rensselaer Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS) promotes distributive justice policies with convoluted notions of diversity based upon economic factors: probably the reason for appointing an economist as dean of humanities. Rensselaer engineering students have provided examples. Forced to take required courses in H&SS they registered for a course entitled Human Dimensions of Leadership. The university charged them $2,280.00 tuition (1996/97) for this four-credit course.
The course had two professors of record: Associate Professor Sharon R. Anderson-Gold [03] and Associate Professor Ralph G. Noble. [04] According to students, these professors, a philosopher and a socio-psychologist divided the class into two groups to learn different ideologies using recitation techniques. Students had a distinct apprehension that if anyone did not agree with the ideology of the professor then they would fail the course: an apprehension caused by the absolutist attitudes of both instructors.
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This prompted inquiry into the course content and the qualifications held by these professors. The syllabus describes a course for students "who will become leaders in their personal or professional lives." It states that the course "reflects belief that effective leadership requires the successful integration of the individual's personality and the characteristics of the situation within a historical and cultural context." It requires readings from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf (My Struggle).
Requiring students to read Mein Kampf causes one to question the validity of the whole curriculum. Even if the instructors intended to use this text for contrast, it has no logical foundation and relies upon the notoriety of a lunatic. Moreover, it does not contain a logical presentation of National Socialist ideas. This gives reason to suspect that it only reflects the instructors’ ideology.
Both professors have nebulous publishing and research backgrounds certainly none in the subject area of this course. Consequently, they rank as academic misfits in a school of humanities that historically has economically justified its existence by imposing its inane philosophies upon unsuspecting engineering students. All this sanctioned by a university policy that requires engineering students to take courses that keep H&SS financially afloat.
Anderson-Gold claims to “have published many articles on law, ethics, history, culture and religion in Kant’s philosophy.” However, an exhaustive search of the academic databases reveals only allusions in her Kantian articles to law, ethics, history, and culture. She has published nothing for eight years except a 1992 book review (1176 words). [05] In this review, she edited copy from her doctoral dissertation and republished it more as a publisher’s schlepper than as a book reviewer.
Since receiving her PhD (New School for Social Research 1980: Teleology and Radical Evil), Anderson-Gold has published only seven articles (two peer reviewed). They all contain mostly edited material from her dissertation. She now claims to have a book in progress and cites a title reminiscent of her dissertation.
Generally, her claims to publication over almost two decades compare with the fraudulent claims made by another H&SS professor, Merrill D. Whitburn. [06] Nmesis previously exposed Whitburn and Suzanne D. Lebsock (wife of Rutgers president) for similar academic fraud.
[Oh, What a Tangled Web She Weaves] [Institutionalized Fraud]
Noble received his PhD (University of California 1970: Hormonal Control of Receptivity in Female Quail) then he published a series of articles on how “male hamsters display female sexual responses” and how “limited coital stimulation facilitates sexual responses of the female hamster”.
Can Noble, from his experience with the behavior of Syrian hamsters, extrapolate enough research data to develop future H&SS required courses for engineers? Will they include explorations of sexual proclivity and the personal chemistry enjoyed after sodomy? Or, on a more political bent, will they explain the nature of the Middle East conflict as it relates to Syrian hamsters and their persecution by predatory Israeli weasels?
Evidently, after the excruciating experience of publishing his masterpiece, “the effects of castration . . . on the copulatory behavior of male hamsters,” Noble has not had enough spunk to publish much else. Certainly, he has published nothing during the past eleven years.
It seems preposterous that Rensselaer has rewarded these academic charlatans with lucrative appointments as associate dean and named professor, respectively. Moreover, the present dean, Faye Duchin, must accept responsibility for allowing them to continue their fraud.
Anybody may guess the value of this course to engineers and may question what it has to do with leadership in modern society. Nmesis knows from his experience as an educator, and three years spent in H&SS, that students cannot develop critical thinking techniques when subjected to the ideologies of aberrant professors. Moreover, at $2,280.00 (1996/97) a throw they expect an education not indoctrination.
Another Rensselaer example shows how bigoted distributive justice policies promote special interests to favor economically advantaged groups to the disadvantage of less fortunate people. These polices allow admission of economically privileged and bigoted students, who lack human feelings for their less fortunate colleagues.
Kenneth J. Dupuis, a Rensselaer snot (Class of ‘99), writes: "Myself [sic] and my family have never been sympathetic to people in the lower and middle classes of society (i.e., those who earn less than $300,00 per year)". By this, Dupuis exemplifies the bigotry practiced by the Rensselaer H&SS cabal. He claims that his father pays $20,030 per year tuition (1997/98) and he vehemently objects to the way Nmesis exposes the racketeering and cultic practices within H&SS. Consequently, Nmesis has concluded that Dupuis results from a fruitful In Vitro Academic Fertilization because he meets all the academic cloning criteria. [Cloning Pointy-Headed Cabalists]
Dupuis wrote to emphatically deny cloned procreation. He claimed that he "was born via natural methods December 4, 1976, at Overlook Hospital, Summit, New Jersey." Moreover, he has agreed to furnish documents that support his claim to any interested reader. Consequently, Nmesis has settled for his mother having reached a more advanced state of cloning by giving natural birth to a robotic bigot after fertilization by sperm from a Rensselaer robot.
Dupuis threatened legal action to restrain Nmesis from publishing Contra Cabal if Rensselaer General Counsel did not take legal action to restrain him. Dupuis threatened that two New Jersey attorneys will bring an action for slander. Additionally, he says that his mother may sue because Nmesis alluded to his conception.
He also claimed that Goldman, Sachs & Co., Wall Street, NY, will supply legal resources when he joins the firm June, 1998. It surprises Nmesis that such a prestigious firm of investment bankers would "unconditionally support [their mail room help] with legal services" for frivolous lawsuits against reporters.
Of course, nothing warms the cockles of a journalist's heart more than for readers to threaten legal action prior to publication of verifiable facts. Especially, when a self-proclaimed bigot relies upon lawyers to take action against a writer for his choice of genre.
Unfortunately, moral members of the Rensselaer community have thoughts on these issues but will not speak out because of “nervousness” about quotation by name. They fear that a colleague might discover what they really think. Their fear controls their professional opinions. They fear that it would not look good to be airing them in the press. They then play it safe and remain anonymous.
Consequently, tenured professors who should have no fear of persecution or unemployment back away from public statements on subjects most people have never heard of, let alone discussed. [07] Such irresponsible behavior by tenured professors and administrators frequently denies due process. It provides a good argument for those who would completely abolish tenure to favor managed accountability in universities generally.
Faye Duchin (Dean H&SS) cannot possibly implement the programs described in Rensselaer Alumni Magazine until she cleans up her operation by purging academic frauds instead of promoting them. Duchin inherited several of them from former Dean Thomas Phelan (another fraud without credentials).
In short, these “interdisciplinary” studies provide a convenient way to promote the most politicized, least intellectually meritorious forms of multicultural pedagogy and ideology. [08] They allow students to escape the academic rigor provided by the disciplines to insure full and lucrative enrolment. Duchin must also provide due process for those individuals swindled by her administrative charlatans before she can proceed forward with the integrity that her publicist promotes. [Technocracy: A Modern Form of Despotism]
Nmesis.
Several readers asked for the web URLs so that they could read the many other Contra Cabal articles. However, Ronald A. Johnson, Vice Provost, Computing and Communications, University of Washington, at the behest of Rensselaer and contrary to First Amendment rights, expropriated the lists and the Contra Cabal archives to censor content. Moreover, for other censorship reasons, Judge James A. Doerty caused censorship and/or destruction of two web sites through unlawful findings now under appeal. Nmesis has reconstructed all the destroyed files and added to them. They will continue to reappear in the Whores of Academe section of Contra Cabal.
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