Students Demand Professor Fired After He Champions Due Process, Says ‘Accusers Sometimes Lie’

Toni Airaksinen 10-01-2018 08:08:47 PM chat Comments

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USC Professor James Moore, USC screenshot.

Nearly 100 students at the University of Southern California attended a rally at noon today demanding a tenured professor be fired after he sent a reply-all email last Thursday to the student body noting that “accusers sometimes lie.”

“If the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process than you are now,” emailed Professor James Moore.

The email — in response to a reply-all email that urged students to “Believe Survivors” on the day of Christine Ford’s testimony — triggered what one school admin said was “hundreds” of emails from concerned students and alumni since Thursday.

USC students Audrey Mechling and Joelle Montier then organized a Facebook rally against the engineering professor, entitled “Times Up for James Moore.” Today at noon at the USC Argue Plaza, nearly 100 students yelled, “Times Up, No Moore!” dozens of times.

Roughly 7 students also spoke at a makeshift podium, sharing sharing stories of sexual abuse. The crowd then marched over to the office of Dean Jack Knott, according to multiple live-streams of the protest.

Met by security guards, the protesters demanded to see Dean Knott. It is unclear if they intended to occupy the building. After a roughly five-minute standoff, security guards allowed Dean Knott greet the protesters, but did not allow students in the building.

“What [Professor Moore] sent was extremely inappropriate, hurtful, insensitive. We are going to try to do everything we can to try to create a better school, to educate the faculty,” said Dean Knott to the crowd.

He then announced that USC would take action.

"This is going to be a multi-pronged effort. We are going to have a faculty meeting later this week around implicit bias, sensitivity towards [sexual assault]...." he said.

Nearly 100 students at the University of Southern California attended a rally at noon today demanding a tenured professor be fired after he sent a reply-all email last Thursday to the student body noting that “accusers sometimes lie.”

“If the day comes you are accused of some crime or tort of which you are not guilty, and you find your peers automatically believing your accuser, I expect you find yourself a stronger proponent of due process than you are now,” emailed Professor James Moore.

The email — in response to a reply-all email that urged students to “Believe Survivors” on the day of Christine Ford’s testimony — triggered what one school admin said was “hundreds” of emails from concerned students and alumni since Thursday.

USC students Audrey Mechling and Joelle Montier then organized a Facebook rally against the engineering professor, entitled “Times Up for James Moore.” Today at noon at the USC Argue Plaza, nearly 100 students yelled, “Times Up, No Moore!” dozens of times.

Roughly 7 students also spoke at a makeshift podium, sharing sharing stories of sexual abuse. The crowd then marched over to the office of Dean Jack Knott, according to multiple live-streams of the protest.

Met by security guards, the protesters demanded to see Dean Knott. It is unclear if they intended to occupy the building. After a roughly five-minute standoff, security guards allowed Dean Knott greet the protesters, but did not allow students in the building.

“What [Professor Moore] sent was extremely inappropriate, hurtful, insensitive. We are going to try to do everything we can to try to create a better school, to educate the faculty,” said Dean Knott to the crowd.

He then announced that USC would take action.

"This is going to be a multi-pronged effort. We are going to have a faculty meeting later this week around implicit bias, sensitivity towards [sexual assault]...." he said.

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The dean added that what Moore said is “not what our school represents.”

In an interview with PJ Media Sunday night, Professor Moore said he “took a risk” by sending an email about due process to the entire student body, nearly 44,000 students.

Prior to this incidence, Moore had worked at USC for 30 years, and for 25 of those was trusted to live in the dorms as a “faculty resident” to help keep an eye on the students.

He told PJ Media that the lack of due process in Title IX investigations has especially concerned him. He also did not intend to insinuate that Christine Ford was lying about Kavanaugh, despite how his email to students came off.

His interest in due process developed when he was a Vice Dean at the USC Engineering School.

“I began getting calls from parents whose children who had been expelled from other institutions for sexual misconduct, and who wanted to know if USC would entertain a transfer application from their child,” he told PJ Media.

He felt the email urging students to “Believe Survivors” was an “opportunity.”

“We are punishing more of the guilty by punishing more of the innocent... I work from within the organization as best I can to try and change it, and this was an opportunity to make a point [about Title IX] with students focused on the question,” he said.

Moore also expressed remorse.

“It is never my intention to hurt anyone. My intention is to protect more students than we currently do from being punished for acts of misconduct they have not committed. Any of us might stand accused of any number of misdeeds, and each of us at that point will want to be treated fairly under due process.”

“Today’s victim may be tomorrow’s respondent,” he told PJ Media.

It is unclear what will happen to Professor Moore. USC spokesmen did not respond to a request for comment in time for deadline.

Will Creeley, who works for the The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), said USC can’t fire Professor Moore and be in good standing with the law.

“Consistent with both its own policy and California state law, USC may not punish either Moore for his comment, nor students who peacefully protest Moore for his comment,” said Creeley.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36937650)

https://abovethelaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/USC-Gould-Law.png

We all know the ugliest law school by far is at none other than the University of Southern California, baby.

This colorless, soulless monstrosity sits in a lonely corner of campus behind the business school’s brand new, gorgeous Fertitta Hall. Part suburban office park, part 18th century fortress, 100% concrete monster. “At least you get to look at the other pretty buildings from the inside, right?” Maybe the professors in their offices do, because most of the large first-year classes are held in the auditoriums in the basement, where no light or happiness makes its way in. The plan was approved in the late 70s or early 80s when brutalist architecture was popular for like, a month? I’d never been shown what “brutalist” architecture was, but I understood it completely without any context the moment I saw this building. It looks like what I imagine the IRS’s headquarters looks like. I wish I could say it’s pretty on the inside, but it’s all linoleum floors and plastic chairs with stained cloth. Technology is always a mess and cell reception is dodgy. The only advantage is it that it encourages law students to get out of the law school itself and explore other places, things, and people on campus.

— A student from the USC Gould School of Law, offering critical commentary on his law school’s appearance after reading an earlier piece from Above the Law which summarized Architectural Digest’s list of the ugliest university buildings in America. That list included three law schools, but many were shocked that USC Gould hadn’t made the ranking. Other law students sounded off, saying things like, “The law school has got to be one of the ugliest buildings I have ever seen. Period.”

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36937668)

if there is one place where the right has fucked up and fucked up badly

it's pre college education

letting the shitlibs run amok in that area demonstrates just how easily children can be indoctrinated with pure horseshit nonsense

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36939756)

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“What [Professor Moore] sent was extremely inappropriate, hurtful, insensitive. We are going to try to do everything we can to try to create a better school, to educate the faculty,” said Dean Knott to the crowd.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36938808)

1. He should *not* apologize. Not even 1/100th of an apology.

2. He should use the threat of California free speech laws (which apply to private unis in California).

3. He should mention several ironclad cases of accusers lying. Best of all, pick ones where innocent black men got screwed.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36939531)

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi

Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert

A shape with lion body and the head of a man,

A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,

Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it

Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know

That twenty centuries of stony sleep

Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,

Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36938828)

it's called "A Song of Ice and Fire" maybe read a BOOK sometime u rube

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36939768)

I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.

Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn

That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:

But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,

So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,

Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,

But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come

That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,

They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;

They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;

So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.

But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life

(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)

Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,

By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;

But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew

And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true

That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man

There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.

That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,

And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins

When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36941738)

Despite the basic rhyme scheme I love this poem

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36941810)

And if the short-circuited ''Dean Knott" is not fired, USC must also be added to the long list of US 'universities' that are no such thing.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36938958)

So fucking spinless.

This is the natural result of the monetization of education. These faggot administrators are so afraid of upsetting their customers that they will appease and indulge their every whim.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36939011)

*30 year career is in ruins*

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36939107)

Jesus what a fucking weak-spined piece of shit.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36939467)

Georgetown Prof calls for white genocide, GTown defends her

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36939698)

he should attack these idiots without mercy for the scum they are

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4094976&forum_id=2#36939774)