Eric Rasmusen Updates Page

@SheRatesDogs

a November 19 tweet

"Are Women Destroying Academia? Probably".

Updates Section

12.14. I have heard rumors that the Provost has received death threats. The rumor did not say who was making the threats, but I suppose they are from leftwing radicals displeased that she has not fired me. Such people should realize that the Provost is not legally able to fire a professor just because he says something she doesn't like. Indeed, she has tread on the verge of legality even by condemning one of her professors with false accusations. These thugs should also realize that it does their cause no good to threaten violence or engage in it.
12.14. Leftwing violence is common on campuses, and rarely punished. "Semester of violence: physical attacks on conservative college students keep piling up" The College Fix, Dec. 13.
12.12. My home was one of five places vandalized a couple of nights ago (the anti-abortion Women's Care Center, and the homes of myself, the editor of the Bloomingtonian, Schooner Creek Farm's Sarah Dye, and Schooner Farm's online defender Joshua Graham). Fake blood was dripped on our front walkway at 1 a.m. and a balloonful left on the grass, with no indication of what it was supposed to mean. The other cases were equally mysterious. See the Bloomingtonian.
12.12. The Dean sat in on my class yesterday, with my consent. It was a good class, I think. (The Chairman sat in on the last class of the semester.)
12.12. I seem to be pretty much forgotten in the news now, and there are only dribbles on Twitter.
12.12. Things are dying down. Good! Twitter replies have been few for several days. My email encouragements (and the few insults) have been dwindling. The Dean did ask me to let my G406 class be videotaped. I agreed, though we then disputed as to whether I would be able to have a copy.
12.02. Instapundit mention, with 100 or so favorable comments.
11.29. I finally have had time to look at stuff on the web. It really is amazing how many outright lies are told about me. The first thing to tell anyone about this controversy is not to believe *any* of the anti-Rasmusen forces. From the Washington Post to the Provost of Indiana University, they lie. Look at original sources. This will also help you sort the trash secondary sources from the reliable ones.
11.29. You can buy a license to use a photo of bridge graffiti insulting me for $499, or $175 for the small version, suitable for the web I guess. He's got a better camera than my phone, but I like my version better, since it has me and my son on the bridge too. My wife thought it wouldn't be proper for me to try selling it for $498, though. But anyone with a camera who lives near controversy: if you hustle a little, you can make some money. An interesting market.
11.27. President Mitch Daniels of Purdue, is bigger game than me, so maybe "Daniels: Leading African American scholar 'one of the rarest creatures in America'" will divert the the wokefolk.
11.27. I was at meeting of the Alliance of Distinguished Professors yesterday, and after 45 minutes of discussion while I was out of the room, they decided not to make any statement about my case.
11.25. Josh Blackman has written a post at Volokh Conspiracy on the legal situation. It seems that in a similar case where a professor's courses were made optional, etc., he sued, won, and then won on appeal, on First Amendment grounds, it being a public university like IU. I haven't objected to IU's doing that sort of thing (just to the public condemnations), and I'm being very cooperative so far (don't expect that to last with likely new demands). The Provost should have been worried that I'd object, since I'd legally be in the right--- another sign that she needs to go.
11.25. A long, beautifully written, supportive essay by my pastor on Warhorn Media.
11.25. Brian Leiter has a blogpost in Leiter Reports saying the Provost responded badly.

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