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Another liberal that can't get a real job so they become a professor teaching meaningless classes

The letter is dated December 18 2024, and FIRE wants a response by January 3, 2024? Time machine much?

It seems to me that conducting class is a core function of a college professor.

If the presidential election was relevant to the substance of the class, then he could have discussed it IN CLASS.

Next time anyone thinks about giving Millsaps a penny they should remember the money is paying a "professor" to teach a worthless class to 3 students. Unreal.

They have classes with THREE STUDENTS in them? Didn't realize things were that dire at Millsaps.

The death of Millsaps will be a great day for Mississippi.

Guy is a leftist nutball and should never ever be in any position of instruction, authority or responsibility.

Once upon a time Millsaps offered me a scholarship to go there. I'm so glad I turned them down and paid my own way at a real school.

Wants to assuage the distress of all three of his emotionally wrecked victims (students) because Trump was elected. Should be at Berkley.

These snowflakes should have processed their grief by storming the US Capitol building like Real Americans.

It's about time. Bowley is a leftist pig and has been for years. He should have been terminated YEARS ago.

In case you want to know who this "stand up" leftist is, he is the father of Karissa Bowley who was the wife of Dau Mabil who was found dead in the Pearl River. He has been a thorn in the side of Millsaps for a while. He is a radical extreme leftist that has used his position at Millsaps to spew his hate for years. Millsaps needs to take this chance to finally terminate him once and for all.

There is a thin line between free speech and hate speech. The only thing I'm sure of is that most of the same people passing negative judgments on Bowley here would be first in line to defend him if he had been suspended for calling Harris supporters "radical communist libtards who hate America."

Cancelling classes for reasons pertaining only to political frustrations has to be unacceptable even at a high school. If Harris had won and a professor cancelled class out of frustration that a "socialist non-white had invaded the White House" he would be fired on the spot.

A professor has a radical opinion. No problem
A professor expresses his radical opinions in class. No problem
Students have radical opinions and express them in class. No problem.
A professor is involved in radical politics. No problem.
A professor decides not to work because of his radical politics. No problem.
A professor decides not to work because of his radical politics and keep his job and still get paid. Big problem. Big fight.

Obviously Millsaps has been looking for an excuse! “Thoughts and prayers” to the 3 (yes three) students

That figures. Leftie woke progressives who could make a living outside the woke classroom.

Millsaps has offered the best liberal arts undergraduate education in Mississippi for 135 years, buffering our collective IQ from the douchebags at 1:08, 3:10, and 3:13, above. This professor is recognized nationally as a leading intellectual in his field. The title of the course is an interesting topic that could reasonably appeal to serious thinkers of any ideology. The school's response to his foolish email and the FIRE woke mob bullshit proves Millsaps has its eye on the ball. This is a great development for above average Mississippi.

Another Clinton, Obama, Biden, Harris and....CHOWKE voter.

@6:00pm - Millsaps graduate here. I'm all for the liberal arts. IMO they help to provide a well rounded intelligent individual and compliment the "real majors", i.e. those that provide an education that are productive to society and in which one can earn a living. If this professor is "recognized nationally as a leading intellectual in his field", this fact alone is forcing me to join the ranks of the many well educated that believe college is a total waste of time. And if as you say, Millsaps has its eye on the ball, why do I think the student enrollment less than what it was when I graduated in 1959.

6:45: because SEC honors colleges are powerful illusions and student loan tuition inflation spiraled too long. Checking garbage like this is a good sign current leadership knows what needs to be done to increase enrollment.

My Mom had a good friend who graduated with a degree in Liberal Arts from an institution similar to Millsaps. She once told Mom, "I am imminently qualified to sit on the porch and think, but not to do anything else."

Who would have thought that the supposed prohibition of baby murder would have caused such distress among the intellectuals?

"Millsaps has offered the best liberal arts undergraduate education in Mississippi for 135 years..."

Sorta like winning the SO.

I don’t EVER want to hear anyone foolish enough to enroll in “Abortions and Religion” complain about their student loans.

9:18 is today's winner!

This is Exhibit A as to why tenure should no longer exist.

Hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. See the "Slants" case.

A private college is not subject to the First Amendment.

Millsaps has a little over 600 students. Most of them are on an athletic team. Millsaps is dying. The cost to keep the huge, empty buildings is staggering. It is a dead man walking. It is in a location, like the rest of Jackson, that is transitioning into lawlessness and slime. It is OVER.

Assuming your post has merit, tell us why there were only three students in this "Nationally recognized, leading intellectual's" class.

Get together with other family members and give it your best shot!

25 years ago, I went through the Millsaps MBA program through their night classes. I was very satisfied with the program, I am not sure I would be now.

3:13 PM is right, it will be a great day when Millsaps is gone as they have successfully destroyed the years parents spent raising their children in a good moral way by turning said children into Robot Leftist Democrats unable to use reason, logic and instinct.

Californians are learning the hard way what being a Robot Leftist Democrat unable to use reason, logic and instinct can lead to.

4:44, please tell us what is the difference between “hate speech” and free speech? Tell us where that thin line is. Who decides? We have rules that prohibit threats of causing harm or injury, inciting violence, and defamation. We have tort rules dealing with intentionally causing emotional distress. But prohibiting “hate speech” would seem irreconcilable with a notion of free speech. We have seen a legislator and Lutheran bishop criminally charged with hate speech for simply stating support for traditional Christian positions on sexuality. We have seen preachers arrested in England for preaching a traditional doctrine of salvation or teachings regarding sexuality, or speaking about false religion. We have seen people, specifically in Scotland, threatened with prospects of prosecution for saying men cannot become women, in the name of prohibiting hate speech. So please illuminate us as to what hate speech is and how prohibiting it is compatible with free speech.

I went to Millsaps at night taking graduate courses. I proudly received my MBA from there. I don’t know if Millsaps still offers that night school option, but it was a rewarding experience.

@6:45pm I knew you were a Millsaps graduate. There was no need to tell us. I knew as soon as you confused “compliment” with “complement”. Coach Ranager recruited me to play football at Millsaps back in 1989. Thankfully I took the full academic ride to Mississippi State.

Tater went to Millsaps. We about to get windmills in Madison County!

Teach the subject matter; don’t thrust your personal political views on a captive audience.

Note: We have freedom of speech, but not freedom of consequences.

Scraps grad from the 80’s… as a young Reaganite I loved the Millsaps experience. Being challenged by libs like Robert McElvaine and many others only reinforced my conservatism and my belief in the most High. I may sign up for this turd’s next class just for the giggles. TDS is real!! #Buckley

Am I free to say, “ I hate Brussels sprouts”?

The thin line is blurry and sometimes hard to define, 7:24. That was part of my point. I never said prohibiting hate speech is compatible with free speech--those were your words. But where that line is drawn is apropos to the subject at hand since Mr. Bowley was suspended for what some people would call hate speech and others would call free speech. As for Mr. Bowley specifically, I do not entirely agree with his words, but I will defend his right to express them. Neither do I agree with a lot of the right wing rhetoric on this site, for example, calling Mr. Bowley a "leftist pig" and that it will be a "great day" for Mississippi if Millsaps College were to close. I don't consider such language any less hateful than the words Mr. Bowley used, but in a pluralistic society the right to free expression belongs to all sides of the political spectrum.

I agree the professor had a "dumb attack" and will have to suffer the consequences of his immature behavior. That said, I would remind everyone our Governor is a Millsaps graduate. I would also suggest you all learn the meaning of a " liberal arts" school. It is unrelated to partisan politics.

7:24 am When you make tell lies about a person or group that will cause them to be physically harmed or their property to be damaged or defamed them so as to limit their ability to earn or money or engage in society or be subjected to violence or treated with prejudice in the law, treated that's " hate speech". There are lots of historical examples including the witch trials in Scotland and in Massachusetts . Speeches by Hitler and Mussolini are good examples. Do understand the devoted followers of these two "leaders" intensified the rhetoric and awful consequences.
Deliberate ignorance is no excuse in the law or morally.
There are people who have earned my dislike but they are just invisible to me. I don't engage or interact with them in any way. Hate actually requires far too much time energy to worth the effort. Tend to your own business first and when you life is perfect and do never make a mistake or fail, maybe you can find the time to hate. You might even find that some people who you think you hate might have some redeeming qualities.

In spite of 9:54's spotty grammar, I concur.

Poor Millsaps Professor James Bowley is too ignorant to know what a fascist really is; just repeating what’s he’s been “taught” to say.

The Millsaps professors could learn a thing or two from Mississippi State professor Sid Salter. Instead of pitching a hissy like a 5-year old, sending emails, name calling and cancelling classes, just look for an excuse to write about Robot Yellow Dog Democrats and decades old segregation.

White Liberals, those Malcom X warned us about (especially old white men) are experts at divide and conquer race baiting hate, without getting themselves suspended.

I think the fact that he had 3 students sign up for his class speaks volumes as to why he needed firing. P.S. I am a Millsaps alum.

I have the same degree, 6:49, although I was a few years ahead of you. And I'd leave the office, days, to go class. For me, it made a nice transition between Delta State, and Tulane, where I became a Doctor of Economics. I would have been lost, at Tulane, had it not been for Millsaps. Frankly, though, I resented the ads and billboards, basically portraying older students as pitiful people doing something weird.

Why they felt the need to STIGMATIZE people working their way through school, I have no idea. Maybe it was the devolving culture of the Methodist Church (their ugly modernesque graphics, for example, stink, and have been stinky since before I was born). I'll never forget the day some woman in charge of outreach toward "older students", intercepted me walking between buildings. I was under thirty, in a Rive Gauche pantsuit, wearing jewelry now on permanent display in an art museum - and yet, she was making me feel SO PITIFUL. I had a spectacular 7-Series Volvo, a spectacular husband, three children precocious even by Beth Israel/Saint Andrews standards, and a string of apartment buildings. STILL, she was trying to be nice, but made me feel like some ragamuffin.

But then, Methodist funerals pitifulize the deceased. I remember the funeral of one of the Delta's grandest 'Grandes Dames', born in a mansion with a ballroom on top, who'd lived a fabulous life in the Delta and Uptown New Orleans. She was described by some Redneck jackass Methodist preacher, as a "farm girl".

Her niece, one of the Delta's last Grandees - an impossibly-chic woman related to Wallis Warfield Simpson AND Pauline de Rothschild, was painted, graveside, by another Methodist preacher, as some pitiful little nothing. The mastermind matriarch of a Swedish Methodist Delta family farming twelve thousand acres, recently received the same pitifulizing treatment. No wonder my Methodist friends have all returned to Judaism.

The above is not dissimilar to what Millsaps' PR department does to those who've paid big money for degrees there. I appreciate being trained, by Millsaps, in Critical Thinking. And I loved going to school with those classy kids. But honestly, WE PAY FOR NAME VALUE, whether it's our colleges, our gated communities, or our cars. Nobody wants to PAY to be humbled.

And by the way, Tulane, I don't like the cheapening of YOUR brand, either.

👍👍 for 12:19's comment - it speaks volumes about today's higher education.

"I was under thirty, in a Rive Gauche pantsuit, wearing jewelry now on permanent display in an art museum - and yet, she was making me feel SO PITIFUL. I had a spectacular 7-Series Volvo, a spectacular husband, three children precocious even by Beth Israel/Saint Andrews standards, and a string of apartment buildings. STILL, she was trying to be nice, but made me feel like some ragamuffin."

You poor thing. Which museum is your old jewelry on display? Did you donate it?

Attending Millsaps is like paying a million dollars for a worn out Chevrolet Impala. The guy getting the million is smiling because you were stupid enough to do it. When really, he did the same thing.

Millsaps grad here.

Millsaps was great when I was there. It definitely went downhill 10 or 15 years ago. It seems to be clawing its way back out with a new president and new head football coach.

Bowley sucks.

Don’t know why a few commenters above think Millsaps is super liberal. If it was then do you think they would be trying to fire Bowley? I don’t know every Millsaps student or grad, but it’s kinda like the US in general. A relatively small group of super liberal people tend to be the most vocal it seems like.

Has Millsaps’ sticker price the last ten years been totally ridiculous? Yes

Besides that though there isn’t much you can hate on about the college.

I have had $25k offers for my 5 speed V6, 1994 Chevy Beretta. No it isn't $1 million but is a lot more than they sold for brand new retail. I wouldn't take less than $100,000 for it.

What difference does it make where the governor graduated college. A number of you here and on other social media outlets like to throw that around. It's meaningless as are your pronouncements.

Almost as meaningless as the comments by those of you who actually believe you can define 'hate speech'. Hate speech is a nebulous, unconstitutional liberal concept and next we will see 'hate thought'.

I agree with Bowles on one thing; like him, I’d be pretty confident about the political leanings of students who signed up for “Abortions and Religion”.

2:59 Millsaps is crawfishing simply as a belated attempt for survival. Don't think for a minute that the leopard has changed his spots.

In the region where the Jeweler eventually settled, built a following, and died, 1:59. It hadn't cost much - less, probably, than some were paying for ugly diamond chip garbage from mail-order schlockhaus jewelers. But I have a husband with a good eye. Of course I donated for the retrospective. That's how it generally works. Maybe if there'd been Melo pearls or red diamonds, I would have kept...

The POINT, though, is that the college was creating problems and embarrassments where there'd been none, consistent with the way in which Methodists, today, seem to be cringing and apologetic, when they should be proud of their tradition of being reserved, erudite, and analytical (at a time when others were indulging in hysteria, moralism, and magical thinking).

Millsaps is irrelevant to all but Millsaps.

Those commenting about their alumnus status have no idea why they attended the school. All they remember is going to Methodist churches as kids and their parents telling them they were going to Millsaps. And when they arrived, they listened to three days of Methodism and got a tour of the campus Archives of Methodism.

Major Reuben Webster Millsaps has duped all of you. The school is as obsolete as the United Methodist Church.

Ironically, the very parents who thought they were shipping their children off to a guarded venue of religious-cushion and safety were tossing them, instead, into a well of irreparable liberalism.

What kind of class is Abortion and Religion. This is the reason Millsaps is going down hill fast. Thank goodness I went to Belhaven. I may have been indocrinated into Calvinism but abortion and religion can't exist together unless you are leftist or a United Methodist.

The people who say the most about Millsaps are the people who’ve never set foot on campus nor really know anything much about the college. I KNOW I’m right on this. You’re truly insufferable.

Au contraire, 4:44! (2/3 of 666, by the way: you should worry) I'm one of those described in your first sentence, and I know precisely why I picked Millsaps. It was close-enough to my office, offered the degree I needed, and had enough cachet (Belhaven is affiliated with a sect one step higher on the Protestant Ladder, but was not known as being particularly brainy). BELIEFS had nothing to do with it.

Nor do BELIEFS have much to do with the thinking of most congregants in Methodist churches (much to the frustration of the church's widely-detested bureaucracy ). Methodists are nice people, seeking the company of other nice people. They greatly resent the imposition of so much "relevance" and emotion, by Church "leadership". In my own non-Christian faith, we have the same problem. "How did things get so FOLKSY?", is basically what we say to each other.

I'll describe the motives and trajectory of a Millsaps grad a few years older than me. We moved in the same circles, and my firm had under management, the reserve capital of one of her extended family's corporations. Her father's surname is Mitteleuropean and princely, but didn't sound nice to American ears. Too, his looks did not meld well with his wife's, and the children looked ODD. Odd does not play well, in Mississippi.

So, off my friend went to State, as a Freshman. She should have been a legacy whatever, for admission to a third-rate sorority, there. But she was blackballed, anyway - that ugly surname, perhaps, or her odd looks... By the next semester, her family had completed the ditching of the ugly surname, and, en-masse, had adopted a respectable, literary-sounding Scottish one. Her parents bought her a better car, and better clothes. Millsaps was chosen, mostly because it was in the Capital, and because her mother's employment within the Methodist beaurocracy, made Millsaps affordable.

So, the young lady, formerly rejected by a third-rate sorority at a third-rate school, came to be embraced within THE top sorority at her new second-rate school. PROGRESS! A school with cachet (Second-rate is pretty good, really), and a sorority with AUTHORITY, placed her within a network of the right people, stretching from the Piedmont Atlantic Megaregion, to the Texas Triangle Megaregion.

Her undemanding Liberal Arts degree only qualified her for paralegal work. However, being a Millsaps girl, she became a paralegal at THE most prestigious law firm, in one of the Piedmont Atlantic's largest cities. There, she met the scion of one of that metropolis' industrialist families (new money, but smart). He was enthralled with her oddness, and that she'd schlepped all over Europe while in college and partied with Punk Rock icons while in Paris - and all of this under aegis of THE best sorority and a small, classy college. All of this, made her marriage material.

Last I heard, her life revolved around membership in THE best country club (in a city where social life is exclusionary, hidden, and dependent upon membership in the right clubs), and playing tennis in her whiteopian exurb, at the pristine outer edge of the good sliver of their metropolis.

The children look odd, but family wealth, being multi-sourced, and guarded within mutivalent preservation strategies, is ASSURED. (her siblings, by the way, abandoned Methodism, and are now 'Cathedral Catholics' - the cathedrals expressly chosen for their LACK OF FOLKSINESS)

I regard hers as being the classic Millsaps story. But I'd like to hear others.

@11:59 I appreciate you writing a narrative that catches the spirit of Millsaps as a true liberal arts college, the Delta movers and shakers of the LeRoy Percy era, and perhaps even the magnolia blossom itself. I enjoyed thinking about all things Mississippi as I read it. Where does Millsaps go from here?

Rive Gauche was the most chi-chi eatery in D,C.in the mid-1960s

Tulane has gone long woke unfortunately.

Graduated Millsaps. Same class as Tate Reeves. Was disappointed by the school and the education I got compared to the cost then, but my opinion sank even lower when Millsaps decided to eliminate the Computer Science department because the CS Faculty were too expensive. Nice to know that this "Methodist University" can still find the funds for a guy to teach three misguided young adults a very one-sided class about abortion and religions. Millsaps at the time excelled in one or two very specific areas of study (Business and Biology/Pre-Med), but was laughable in most others. I should have gone to a public university where I could have gotten a better education for less money, but I fell for the "small elite liberal arts" sales pitch. I'm thankful that I at least chose a major with a chance for a successful career. Far too many of my classmates fell into the Millsaps Trap of paying $60K plus in tuition so they could attend BS classes that would then qualify them to wait tables at Keifers after graduation.

Not passing judgment. Just sharing this video with a position different than most on this blog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aXqgkMT-lE