Linda is this the article you mentioned???
KMottus
Who needs a scanner when newspapers keep their archives on line!!!!
EASTERN ILLINOIS MUSIC PROFESSOR FACES NEW COMPLAINT FOR SEX CONTENT OF
COURSE By Patrick E. Gauen Of The Post-Dispatch
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What April Hixson signed up for was a college course in non-Western
music. What she says she got was a seminar on bizarre sexual practices
laced with disgusting references to feces and mutilations.
So Hixson is demanding a refund of the $364.38 she paid Eastern Illinois
University at Charleston for the class last semester, even through
Professor Douglas DiBianco gave her an A.
It is a fresh chapter in an old controversy at Eastern over how much
academic freedom DiBianco, a 22-year veteran of the faculty, can
exercise to pursue what he sees as a mind-expanding approach to music.
The state school, which serves almost 12,000 students 125 miles
northeast of St. Louis, has little to say publicly about it, possibly
because of continuing litigation over similar complaints dating to 1993.
In 1996, a seven-member curriculum guidance committee for students
studying elementary and secondary education voted unanimously to
"strongly recommend" they avoid DiBianco's course because of the
content.
DiBianco, who has never denied the nature of the curriculum, broke an
appointment with a reporter last week.
http://archives.postnet.com/archives/pdarc99.nsf/562e50b071e825be862565f60
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KMottus
In article <36D22E...@inlink.com>, dhchase <dhc...@inlink.com> writes:
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>Oh duh, archives... Postnet... <bewildered look> the url only works if
>you get the whole thing cut and pasted in, tricky.
>
>Thanks!!!!!
Your welcome.
That URL is on the obnoxious side.
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>Remember we have had the discussion before about how university courses
>aren't cult-like.
>Well this one had a captive audience, deceptive recruiting practices and
>no refunds...
Was that with me, personally or on the ng as a whole.
Graduate school definitely has it's cult-like aspects. Being
indoctrinated into the secrets... with tests. And after my
Preliminary Exam (oral) where the point of the elders
is to see how you think. They only ask questions they
believe you can't answer.... if you can answer one, they
stop you.... and ask something else... Very disorienting,
very cognitive dissonance... reduces lots of graduate
students to emotional puddles that ooze there way
to the bathroom while the elders decide if the student
is worthy of initiation. And, if they sense any excessive
arrogance in the person, they WILL teach the student
humility.... and it ain't that pretty at all.
The whole hooding thang. I may not hold onto a lot of material
things but no one better try to pry that hood away from me....
K.