Tuesday, September 22, 2020

State Auditor Investigates Professor's Strike

Professors fire back at Shad White.

Our favorite Ole Miss professor surprisingly generated some more headlines.  Professor James Thomas made quite a name for himself with his bullying ways in Oxford a couple of years ago:



A true warrior, he has never once backed down but instead managed to achieve tenure and the Chairmanship of the Chancellor’s standing Academic Freedom and Faculty Responsibility Committee at Ole Miss.

Professor Bully joined a national "scholar strike" for two days recently to promote his version of social justice. That little act caught the eye of State Auditor Shad White. He warned Ole Miss last week:


A group of Mississippi professors protested Mr. White's actions yesterday:

We, the undersigned members of the professoriate in Mississippi and beyond, urge that you immediately and publicly express support for the besieged faculty member, J. M. Thomas. We urge you, as institutional leader of the Faculty of University of Mississippi, to support the principle of academic freedom, helping to articulate to the public an understanding of Dr. Thomas’ action as a direct expression of academic freedom and as an expression of the human values in the University’s statements of mission and philosophy.

To begin, we believe that any conduct of Dr. Thomas that falls within his profession as a professor is the purview of his colleagues, department chair, and dean. If his experiences are like the rest of us, professors give countless uncompensated hours and days to our institution, discipline, and the public.

Professor Thomas has exercised his constitutional right of freedom of speech in acknowledgement and support of ScholarStrike, a national action to voice opposition to police violence against African Americans. Dr. Thomas’ participation in ScholarStrike constituted, as he has suggested, his teaching activity on September 8-9, 2020, declaring his support of humanistic values that are at the heart of the academic enterprise. Rather than being threatened by forces of the State for his action, he should be honored for helping to advance the values espoused in the University’s own Mission Statement, including enriching opportunities outside the classroom and a sense of global responsibility.

The executive director of ACLU-MS is quoted by AP as saying that Dr. Thomas “was not demanding improvements in his own work conditions but was trying to draw attention to other issues” and therefore his action was well within his rights as a citizen. Furthermore, we assert that if Dr. Thomas has not violated anything within the University of Mississippi faculty handbook, there is no merit to what his critics have to say about his recent activities. His style of community activism may not be the approach some of us would choose to use. On the other hand, tenured professors are protected from the whims and tastes of the public or individual politicians.

We realize that many politicians and members of the public have found professors to be easy targets in these polarized times. One speaker said before a national audience that professors “don’t have pride in our country and because they no longer ask what can I do for my country, only what the country should be doing for them, they don’t have pride in themselves.” This antipathy towards higher education is mirrored at the state level. Given recent negative comments about professors in American society, we find it particularly worrisome that many in the public and politics know so little about academia, what a professor is, or how tenure works besides what they may read in a few media accounts and on social networking sites. Sadly, Dr. Thomas has become fodder for such sentiments.

We view higher education as a cornerstone ideal in a well-functioning democracy. Dr. Thomas practices his discipline faithfully by recognizing that personal issues are linked to larger social forces. The social sciences and humanities tradition that many professors like him follow centers on critical thinking and sound research and teaching. That tradition also involves exposing social injustice and providing solutions. Indeed, this is the point that Martin Luther King made when he argued that social sciences should be the “molders of consensus.” Lastly, the ethics we abide by as learned members of our disciplines often requires us to give voice to empower those we study and teach, and the ways we practice community building. Like Dr. Thomas, we the undersigned, are guided by those ideals.

We, the undersigned, urge you to stand publicly with Dr. Thomas in exercising his disciplinary values and constitutional right to free speech. Your public support is urgently needed.
 The professors are:

 Rachel Allison, PhD
Ted Atkinson, PhD
DeeDee Baldwin, MILS
Mark A. Bernhardt, PhD
James E. Bowley, PhD
Gwendolyn Bussa, PhD
Shalyn Claggett, PhD
J. Janice Coleman, PhD
Adele Crudden, PhD
Peter DeGrabiele, PhD
Lara Dodds, PhD
Louwanda Evans, PhD
Kristen Brown Golden, PhD
Max Grivno, PhD
Joshua S. Haynes, PhD
Margaret A. Hagerman, PhD
Alexandra Hui, PhD
Joō Fumiko, PHD
Kimberly Kelly, PhD
Thomas M. Kersen, PhD
Braden Leap, PhD
Sharon Lobert, PhD
Robert Luckett, PhD
Kelly Marsh, PhD
Natalie Maynor, PhD
Moses Newsome, PhD
Keith Moser, PhD
Joanne Olson, PhD
Bonnie Carr O’Neill, PhD
Sol Palez, PhD
Seth F. Oppenheimer, PhD
Marty G. Price, PhD
Judith Ridner, PhD
Savina O. Schoenhofer, PhD
Nathan R. Shrader, PhD
Andrea Spain, PhD
Ashley Vancil-Leap, PhD
Eric Vivier, PhD
Brian Williams, PhD
Sarah Sylvester Williams, PhD
Erin Graff Zivin, PhD

68 comments:

Anonymous said...

Communist sympathizers

Anonymous said...

Translation: We're smarter than you and we're not subject to your petty "laws." We can make our own rules for ourselves. You wouldn't understand that. How dare you question your superiors. How can you possibly understand our exalted contributions to society?

Anonymous said...

Sounds like the State is trying to infringe on his constitutional right to free speech. If he files a lawsuit, I hope he wins.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for providing patriots with a list of subversive traitors to remember in the lawless days ahead.

Anonymous said...

Stick your damn fingers in my food and I will cut them off and shove them up your communist a$$ !
The shooting war is coming because of these fools and it is getting closer every day.
Lock and load, I already have!

Anonymous said...

“To begin, we believe that any conduct of Dr. Thomas that falls within his profession as a professor is the purview of his colleagues, department chair, and dean. If his experiences are like the rest of us, professors give countless uncompensated hours and days to our institution, discipline, and the public.”

Ok for educational elite to police themselves immune from outside review? Aren’t many of these same “educators” vehemently opposed to the same self-policing by the cops, police chiefs and DAs?

Anonymous said...

This is a prime example of why you have lawlessness in the street. This example, along with countless other examples enjoyed by the elites in this country, proves that some are above the law. Why should the common person follow the law when the supposed best of the population doesn't?

Anonymous said...

@7:11. Actually, legal genius, there is no first amendment violation. The first amendment does not prevent governor employers from creating rules for employment. In this case, the rule says that no employee can strike. Just because the professor claims a political reason for violating the rule, this doesn't protect him from suffering the consequences of said violation. Another example would be an employee dress code. If my employer has a dress code, I can't show up one day in flip flops and a tank top and say I dressed this way to protest for black lives matter. As long as the rules are enforced equally against everyone, regardless of political affiliation, there's no first amendment issue.

Anonymous said...

As is always the case with the left, the ends always justify the means. Laws are for those who are not in the right. The left considers itself to always be in the right on issues, so there should be no further discussion. Just like their claims to global warming (now, Climate Change): The science is settled. There shall be no further discussion, especially from the "deniers" (which is a further implication that THEY are right, and ALL others are wrong.)

I hope Shad and others with authority IN the law show some backbone and don't back down. It would be nice, for once - and hopefully moving forward - that the people charged with enforcing the laws actually enforce them. Otherwise, the lawbreakers - and even people like me - will soon enough just start ignoring the laws they don't like.

No, professor, if you feel the laws are wrong, work to get them changed; however, in the meantime, I hope they blister your ass!

Anonymous said...

I doubt a single PhD on that list has their degree in STEM. It will be all Sociology, Gender Studies, Literature, etc. Literally midwits and nitwits.

Anonymous said...

He looks like another ANTIFA methhead

Anonymous said...

Boyce needs to do the same thing Ronald Reagan did with the striking air traffic controllers- fire the professor and any of the other ones that do the same thing.

Anonymous said...

Why doesn’t he go and stick his fingers in someone’s food instead of telling other people to do it. If he does it and it’s not staged, he will get the proper ass whipping he deserves.

Anonymous said...

Long list of losers who have spent way too much time in school and not enough in the real world. Nobody said he doesn’t have the right to protest. Just don’t do it on your employers dime. Gotta be your own time. Is he too smart to understand that? Reading his tweet really makes me wish he would put his fingers in my food. No wonder higher education is going to crap.

Anonymous said...

Tenure is a such a terrible thing to waste.

Anonymous said...

His right to free speech is not being attacked, his perceived ability to strike whilst on the clock is being called out by our dear Lord and Savior Shad White.

Anonymous said...

7:27 I guarantee you would sit there looking befuddled and goofy and wouldn't do a goddamn thing. big internet talk about killing a man for touching your food. you're an idiot.

Anonymous said...

@7:43, and what's your degree in? muddin'?

Anonymous said...

Blame the college board. They gave him tenure even after his threats. All 12 members of the college board were appointed by Phil Bryant.

Anonymous said...

@8:43
I have a theoretical degree in nuclear physics ;)

Anonymous said...

As someone who has five degrees, I believe we should not de-fund the police. I do think we should de-fund social sciences. Funding of Social sciences are nothing more that subsidies to produce worthless degrees which produce no job skills.

someone said...

ole miss has become a liberal hot bed. i wonder if their donations are being affected in a negative way? STEM from class of '67.

Anonymous said...

Those citations to authority in Mr. White's letter are to the Mississippi Code, i.e., the law of the State of Mississippi, not an employee handbook. It seems to me either Professor Thomas can challenge the law on constitutional grounds, and seek to have it struck down, or he can accept the punishment for breaking it.

I haven't looked them up to verify, but I strongly suspect none of the Phds that signed this letter also have J.D.s. From the letter it looks like the law is clear, as is the choice for Chancellor Boyce to make: either openly admit that he will not follow the law, or fire this chump. I say good riddance.

Anonymous said...

I have four degrees from Ole Miss and am truly disillusioned by the liberal course of the faculty there. Does it affect the donations...........you damn right it does. Never again will this member of the Legacy Society ever contribute to the University.

Anonymous said...

Is Thomas a certified public school teacher in a state public school district?

Anonymous said...

Those who did not sign are more likely to lose position that the perp. That is how it works in the fascist society they seek.

Anonymous said...

I tell my employees, what you do on your time is your business, but don’t let it ever affect your job. With that being said, this nut job can do whatever he wants on his time. He’s a damn state employee that’s never had to worry about making payroll or keep a business going. Pathetic

Anonymous said...

None of what these professors said matters (that the faculty handbook wasn't violated, that the prof striked not to improve working conditions but to advance equality for african americans, etc). The prof refused to work but wanted to get paid, a violation of state law. Don't like the law? Put in effort to get it changed.

Anonymous said...

Make it meaningful comrades. You need to go on strike too. I’m sure Mr White can find room on his calendar for you too. You are here to teach. Not spread your personal views. Get used to it

Anonymous said...

This professor is a jerk, communist, meathead ANTIFA....however, I believe the "no strike" law in Mississippi is unconstitutional. Perhaps it will be tested.

Does anybody know if he requested PTO for those two days? Hmmmmm......If he did, then he's covered, and Oxford can't do a damn thing about it - nor the sell out climber Shad White. This shouldn't have even been on his radar....and he's ignoring whales of corruption he knows good and well are happening, but now that he is thick with the thieves, Mississippi corruption carries on in a big way.

Anonymous said...

I'll stand with Shad on this. You're on state payroll, you dont' work, you get fired. End of story.

Anonymous said...

Well..you get what you pay for at Ole Miss. Tuition there after grants/tuition discount is next to nothing.

Send your kids to a private Christian university where this sort of thing does
not happen. You may pay more, but the faculty aren’t trying to indoctrinate far left ideology into all the students. We have two in the Jackson area...

Anonymous said...

Adult minds know it is possible for two things to be true at once:

(1) this professor is an annoying jerk;

and

(2) the school is bound by its commitments in its handbooks & contracts w faculty.

I’m glad the state’s accounts are so pristine that our new auditor has nothing else more pressing.

Anonymous said...

College Professors could live in a communist utopia and they would still look for ways to be subversive. That's why Stalin, Mao, and even Hitler all eventually persecuted so called "intellectuals" because they love to corrupt young minds. History is soon to repeat. These people are pushing a Weimar Republic and will end up with a Hitler rising from the ashes of the failed state. And they think Trump is literally Hitler. They don't even know.

Anonymous said...

This is someone who never had a real job, kind of like Obama. You have all these brilliant ideas but no idea what reality is. You teach only your view of things but if you had to go out and start a business or find a job at a manufacturer you are incapable of any success.

Anonymous said...

Only a public employee could expect to strike and retain his or her job. My company would fire you on the spot, yet this jackass gets to keep working in a virtually untouchable position. Oh, but he cares about black lives so much, y'all. But ask him about what he did to his wife.

Anonymous said...

Tenure is so stupid. Show up for work every day. Compete. Earn the right to come back tomorrow. That's the code I live by.

This do-nothing, communist professor needs a real job.

Anonymous said...

This is taking place at the flagship university as they call themselves? Just making sure. #HYDR

Anonymous said...

I'm pretty sure Shad already knows if Freddy Finger Food took time off or not. I am betting he didn't. I would love to catch this guy in public, I'd slap the food out of his mouth and say "oh I thought you were a Senator".

Anonymous said...

Google a few of these names - looks like the lion’s share of these folks are employed in the English and sociology departments of MSU. Guess this self important explanation of the indispensability of goofy liberal arts professors was passed around the office and, like all good lemmings, they signed. Would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that they are in charge of instructing college kids who will latch on to any philosophy that blames everyone else and absolves themselves of personal responsibility.

Anonymous said...

I thought Glenn Boyce was brought in to clean up this sort of garbage that became prevalent under the Vitter regime.

Anonymous said...

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. - Adolf Hitler

Anonymous said...

By looking at the alarming decreases in undergraduate enrollment over the last few years, it is very obvious damage is being done. The real benefactors of this anarchy at “Ole Miss”, excuse me, The University of Mississippi are Ms. State and Univ. of Southern Ms. Look it up. If you want to stop this stuff, you can vote it out by not buying sports tickets and quit contributing to the various clubs. For a list of those various clubs, just go to (non alumni) Lamar Adams’ (Madison timber) Trial records.

Anonymous said...

Many of those professors have weird last names

Anonymous said...

Of course Millsaps Prof. Bowley is on the list. Rings a bell, doesn't it KF?

Anonymous said...

Shad's decision to pursue this is transparently political. There is no reasonable financial justification to spend his office's time and resources pursuing two days' pay from one professor.

More importantly, his interpretation of the law is highly suspect. A strike, under Miss. Code 37-9-75, "means a concerted failure to report for duty, a willful absence from one's position, the stoppage of work, a deliberate slowing down of work, or the withholding, in whole or in part, of the full, faithful and proper performance of the duties of employment, for the purpose of inducing, influencing or coercing a change in the conditions, compensation, rights, privileges or obligations of public employment."

The professor's work stoppage, such as it was, was expressly performed to call attention to national issues of racial justice. It was not done "for the purpose of inducing, influencing or coercing a change in the conditions, compensation, rights, privileges or obligations of public employment." He has demanded no changes to the terms of his own or anyone else's employment with the state. It is simply not a strike under the law.

I actually had some hope that Shad was above this kind of stunt, but it seems he couldn't resist the chance to participate in a time-honored tradition of Mississippi politicians using their public positions, money, and resources to pursue politically motivated, ill-fated legal fights.

Anonymous said...

this clown is just like the corrupt cop who get fired from one job, only to be hired the next day by another jurisdiction .
even if the state manages to get rid of him he will have another job waiting for him at another college or university where reality is non-existent .
many of these so-called ''intellectuals'' think they piss hugo boss cologne , shit chocolate fudge, and when they walk down the street , their feet dont even touch the ground.







Anonymous said...

9:44 is an example of why things will get worse not better.

Anonymous said...

Um, 9:44, you can define strike however you want, but you do realize this professor SAID he was on strike for those two days, right? Now, he may not actually have known what he was doing when he SAID he was on strike, but if this were ever to go to court, I suspect the court would look at his intent and what he SAID he was doing, as he was absent from work for two days. Strikes are illegal. Simply being absent from work for two days is not.

Whether he was striking under the law seems to me to be immaterial in this instance if he believed he was striking by SAYING he was striking, then carrying through with it. Shad's not on a witch hunt. He's going after someone who knowingly went on a strike (again, evidenced by the fact that striking is what he claimed to be doing, while he was doing it), and he's intending to hold this professor accountable.....the same thing that would (and should) happen to you or me, were we to do the same thing. Like elections, actions have consequences.

Anonymous said...

@2:17: Makes me think of the Seinfeld episode where Kramer refuses to wear the ribbon.

Anonymous said...

I couldn't quite put my finger on it when this prof posted about fingers in the salad, etc., but his recent activity brought it into focus. This guy simply doesn't give a shit about the law or the rights of others. That isn't just some ad hominem attack. He advocated several illegal acts in the "fingers" post - disturbing the peace, theft of services, theft of property, etc.

In his latest stunt, he broke the law regarding striking. While citizens do have the right to protest, there are at least two more parts to that: the responsibility to protest legally and peaceably and that actions can have consequences. Had he suggested that people write letters, use their own time to protest and picket, or similar, he would have been on firm legal and civil ground. However, if you support the law, including the Constitution and its restrictions upon the government, then you must support it when it has reasonable consequences albeit ones you don't particularly like. In this case, I'm sure the professor would attempt to enforce his contract if Ole Miss tried to violate it detrimental to his interests so he shouldn't be surprised if Ole Miss attempts to enforce it when he violates it by his own willful conduct in violating the statute. He should be terminated if that is what the law mandates - not because of his belief(s) but because of his (illegal) conduct.

Anonymous said...

"Would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that they are in charge of instructing college kids who will latch on to any philosophy that blames everyone else and absolves themselves of personal responsibility."

Spot on, @8:37. The kids aren't going to college prepared enough in critical thinking skills to challenge any thought, much less the thoughts of radical professors. Firsthand, my sister in law is majoring in psychology which is another subject area overrun with communist ideologists masquerading as professors. Well, suddenly, last year after watching an anti-meat documentary during one of her psychology courses' lectures(no idea what that has to do with psychology), eating meat is now going to end the world. It not once ever occurred to her that maybe, just maybe that just because she sees a documentary on a subject does not mean that the science on the particular matter or thought is anywhere close to being settled.

Anonymous said...

none of those people work on the Oxford campus, below I listed where those people work. Most are from MSU. Isn't that a weird coincidence?

Mississippi State 24
Millsaps 4
Jackson State 3
UMMC 3
Southern Miss 2
Alcorn 1
UVA 1
USC 1
Grand Canyon University 1

Anonymous said...

None of those people work in Oxford. Below lists their affiliation.
It's funny how the vast majority are at MSU...

Mississippi State 24
Millsaps 4
Jackson State 3
UMMC 3
Southern Miss 2
Alcorn 1
UVA 1
USC 1
Grand Canyon University 1

Marxist Wannabe Prof said...

BS = we all know what that means
MS = more of the same
PhD = piled higher and deeper

Anonymous said...

The impressive support of your educational institutions show why Mississippi, and red states in general, have such high levels of education, and such low levels of poverty, poor health, etc., when compared to the rest of the country. With the people most of you guys vote for in power, i.e., the guy who out-conservatived his opponent (and regardless of technical party affiliation, that’s been the case pretty much uninterrupted from the beginning), it’s no wonder MS is on the top of every good list. Right?

Keep doing what you guys have been doing from the beginning. It’s worked great so far!

Sincerely,

All your kids that are leaving the State

Anonymous said...

" None of those people work in Oxford. Below lists their affiliation.
It's funny how the vast majority are at MSU..."

Perhaps.
But this is more than the usual Ole Miss/ State crap.

Mississippi State, USM, and most Universities throughout the USA are dealing with this nonsense.

By the way, a question to my Southern Miss friends.
Any new names for yall's legendary drill team ?

God forbid, the name "Dixie Darlings" is just so offensive.



Anonymous said...

"Tenure is a such a terrible thing to waste."

Yep.

Tenure used to be one of the ultimate academic accolades.

Now that title secretly squeezes the Marxist educator's sphincter muscles.

But they will never admit that fact "in public" .

Anonymous said...

@9:05
And people wonder why we used to restrict (((you-know-who))) from power in academia.

Anonymous said...

Judging from looks, I would expect him to suck his fingers after he sticks them in a senators meal.

Anonymous said...

Shad's desperate publicity stunt may end up in court. There is do doubt a court will rule that he has the right to protest and strike. This will open the door to every state employee being able to protest and strike any time they want to.

Anonymous said...

Nice try 6:03. That trick is old and the judge would be dumb to go against such a plain and clear law. Don’t be so salty.

Anonymous said...

Whoever said Southern Miss hasn't benefitted must be smoking something. The President down there has run it off into the ditch and everybody SOOOO scared to say anything. Ask any kid where they want to go. USM ain't on the list. MSU on the other hand has totally made hay while the sun shines.

Anonymous said...

If 1:32/1:35 is correct, not a single person who actually works with this guy actually signed the letter in support of him. That, to me, speaks volumes.

Anonymous said...

Why do we need the sociology field of study and why are our tax dollars being used to fund the study of it?

Anonymous said...

Notably, the names of NONE of Mr. Thomas's colleagues in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology appear on that list. Not one.

Anonymous said...

So is this the ploy that Goofy White came up with to take the focus off King Phil? I’m surprise he could get his head out of Phil’s rear to come up with this so called infraction. Hopefully, if this one goes to court Goofy will lose and this will be the first of many of his losses. However his losses will not restore decent people’s reputations. Rot in hell Shad.

Anonymous said...

" Rot in hell Shad."

Don't give yourself a heart attack 12:25.
Shad will be around for a long, long time.

However, by all means, . . . start working to (legally) vote him out of office during our next election.



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