{"id":8642,"date":"2010-02-13T08:34:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8642"},"modified":"2010-02-13T08:34:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T13:34:31","slug":"the-ultimate-tenure-rejection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=8642","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Tenure Rejection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been all over the news; three member of the U of Alabama\/Huntsville&#8217;s biology staff were <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/breaking\/2010\/02\/three_dead_one_injured_in_shoo.html\">killed yesterday<\/a>, allegedly by a woman who&#8217;d been denied tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Tenure, of course, is one of those niceties of academic life that promotes basic academic freedoms by making it much harder to arbitrarily and capriciously fire a professor.\u00a0 Call it an &#8220;arbitrary termination-free zone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a sense, all of the victims were denied an even more-important tenure &#8211; the right to protect themselves and those around them from being arbitrarily and capriciously blown off of this earth.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/johnrlott.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/another-shooting-in-gun-free-zone-at.html\">U of Alabama\/Huntsville was a &#8220;gun-free zone&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Several pieces of information indicate that students, faculty, and staff are banned from having guns on university property (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=10552852311\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=118x290829\">here<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My condolences and prayers to the families of the victims &#8211; and the family of the alleged perp.<\/p>\n<p>So how many more\u00a0 humans are to be denied their temporal tenure to placate our anti-gun lords and masters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been all over the news; three member of the U of Alabama\/Huntsville&#8217;s biology staff were killed yesterday, allegedly by a woman who&#8217;d been denied tenure. Tenure, of course, is one of those niceties of academic life that promotes basic academic freedoms by making it much harder to arbitrarily and capriciously fire a professor.\u00a0 Call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-free-zones","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8643,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions\/8643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}