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Tuesday, March 15, 2005
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L’IRONIE… …here is that this professor’s claim of discrimination because of her Frenchness cannot be true, since by her own description her behavior is totally American: [irritable parenthetic remarks UD’s] EX-INSTRUCTOR SUES UNIVERSITY, SAYS SCHOOL THOUGHT HER TOO FRENCH Associated Press  CINCINNATI - A former fashion instructor has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the University of Cincinnati, charging that the school did not renew her contract because of her French nationality. Nathalie Doucet, who filed the lawsuit last week in U.S. District Court, said she was treated differently than her non-French colleagues. [“from” would be better than “than”] The university denies Doucet's allegations of discrimination, said Mitchell McCrate of the Office of General Counsel at UC. Doucet, who was born in France and is a permanent resident alien in the United States, served a three-year contract as an assistant professor of fashion design at UC from 2001 to 2004. [you can be a professor of anything these days, grumble, grumble] The lawsuit claims that Doucet was labeled anti-American by a student's parent [UD has been labeled anti-American by loads of people - where does she sign up?] and told by an administrator that she was "too French." [if Doucet were truly French, she would take this as a compliment] Doucet also was humiliated by an administrator who rejected her approach to a research project by saying that it was "not the way Americans do it," the lawsuit alleges [see how American this chick is? she’s totally glommed onto the whole hypersensitivity thing] The fashion instructor claims that the discrimination began early in her term and grew worse, especially as anti-French sentiments became prevalent in the United States after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq [hard to believe. not enough Americans follow the news or make the sorts of complex connections -- US - Iraq - France -- you’d need to make for these sentiments to have been significantly expressed] The suit rejects UC's claim that it did not renew Doucet's contract because the instructor "has not demonstrated clear evidence of satisfactory teaching, nor has she shown significant growth in other areas." "If I was a bad professor, if I was not working, maybe I could understand," said Doucet, who has since moved to San Francisco with her husband and son. "But I can tell you for sure I did my best for myself and the student evaluations attested of it." [student evaluations? Ne makez me laugh pas] McCrate said the university will defend itself "vigorously" against Doucet's suit. Doucet is seeking to get her job back or to get money for the damages she says were caused when the school failed to renew her contract. [Doucet’s faith that she’ll get rich on the basis of lame discrimination claims demonstrates beyond a doubt that she is American, not French] ***** Later that same day... There are actually 2 comments on this thread, not one. I don't know why it still says one. Anyway, as soon as I go back to my blog from this Blogger page it'll probably have changed to 2... But if it hasn't, do not be fooled! Two, not one! |