In the last week alone, a teacher was caught SMS’ing cops for pot, a principal was caught in his office watching gay porn while sitting butt-ass naked, a lesbian teacher was arrested for fondling her students, and another one was found naked in a car with a 14-year old. No wonder kids are out of […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Think of it as Frankenstein turning on its maker. Years ago UCLA played an active role in creating the Internet. Then several years later, it is used to steal personal information of 800,000 current and former UCLA students and faculty. UCLA might be proud of their computer science department but it’d be nice if […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)One of our favorite posts was about the Wrongheaded USC cheerleader who was caught cheering for the wrong team in last year’s Rose Bowl (and here). It looks like it happened again.
Story tip: Onion.
tags: USC cheerleader USC cheerleaders
From Sports Illustrated:
…school districts as diverse as Cheyenne, Wyo.; Spokane, Wash.; Charleston, S.C.; Santa Monica, Calif., and Attleboro, Mass., have decreed that the game children have been playing, well, forever and ever and ever, is too dangerous to either the physical health or the mental well-being of our little 21st-century darlings.
At a time when childhood […]
The United Teachers Los Angeles is the collective bargaining agent for teachers in the LAUSD. As a bonus, they have a foreign policy.
The LA Daily News reported this week that “On Oct. 14, the L.A. chapter of the Movement for a Democratic Society was to hold a rally and Israeli boycott, divestment and sanctions […]
Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, pleaded guilty to several charges last Monday including smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for completing his homework. She has been doing this with him since he was 11.
The woman also said she also smoked marijuana with two of her son’s friends, ages 17 and 18, and […]
h/t Ace of Spades
For those of you who haven’t been paying attention ABC’s “The Path to 9/11″ miniseries has come under attack by members of the Clinton Administration for factual inaccuracy.
In order to compress 10 years of events into 4 hours the director utilized composite scenes showing a number of failed or aborted […]
Laura Mandelberg is a dedicated Democrat whose contribution to the decor of a suite at a Brandeis University’s residence hall this year will be life-size cutouts of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Bill Clinton. Jordan Frazes is an avowed environmentalist who plans to post and preach the rules of waste recycling in the suite.
Their point […]
Tamara Hoover is the most popular person at school at Independent Sources and probably one of the most popular Internet searches right now.
57% of our current traffic is coming in from Internet searches of her name, and it’s increasing.
Last 100 visitors to Independent Sources midday on 8/18/06
Read the related stories below or type her […]
Deborah Frisch is a psycholgist and former director of the Decision, Risk and Management Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Until the 8th of July she was also a professor at the University of Arizona. She is also the proprietor of the blog South(West) Paw.
In 2005 Dr. Frisch referring to Ward Churchill’s Little […]
Ann Althouse of the University of Wisconsin law school reports that UW has hired a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to teach introductory-level “Islam: Religion and Culture” this fall.
Kevin Barrett is active in the 9/11 conspiracy movement, co-founding a major conspiracy website, Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth (more on this below) and writing for Milwaukee Indymedia.
What’s astounding […]
From Pirate Ballerina comes word that if you lied to get your teaching position, plagiarized while on the job, and pretty much have no place on a campus, that with a great deal of effort and legal fees (probably in the millions), you can actually lose your job.
CU Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano:
I have carefully reviewed […]
Tamara Hoover, an art teacher at Austin (TX) High School, is in danger of losing her job for posting topless photos of herself on Flickr, where by the way she has a friends list of 1467 people. Many of them look to be of high school age.
Hoover, according to CNN, was an excellent teacher, […]
Teachers in Manhattan Beach are embroiled in contract negotiations, and guess who suffers? According to the local weekly Easy Reader:
Manhattan Beach teachers have not announced a strike, however in recent months they have withheld more and more of their time from students.
In April teachers canceled the Advanced Placement study sessions. When the district gave […]
CU’s Standing Committee on Research Misconduct has made its recommendations to the provost. SCRM voted 6-3 to recommend Churchill’s dismissal, with the minority voting to recommend suspension. (From Pirate Ballerina).
Excerpts from the report:
The Standing Committee on Research Misconduct at the University of Colorado at Boulder has accepted the conclusions of the Investigative Committee that […]
