The UAH professor who defied Bishop and shut down her massacre speaks.
… [Debra Moriarity] worried that any attempt to tighten security could have negative consequences. “There is evil in the world; it is unfortunate that good people are hurt by that. But a university is a place of free thought and freedom to explore ideas and to search out new knowledge and you don’t want to put anything in place that dampens that.”
Moriarity returned to her office on Wednesday and said she plans to resume teaching next week. She predicted that, with the help of anti-anxiety medication, she would be able to sleep Wednesday night.
“I’ve been talking to family and friends and just getting their support helps you deal with it,” she said. “I think right now most of us want to get back there and get things going, make plans for who is going to cover classes.”…
February 17th, 2010 at 11:38PM
If our experience is any guide, everybody will want to get back to work when the university reopens. I’m not sure, though, how students and faculty will react to the first day of a continuing class with a new person presenting the lessons. That’s a different situation.
February 18th, 2010 at 6:07PM
“There is evil in the world; it is unfortunate that good people are hurt by that. But a university is a place of free thought and freedom to explore ideas and to search out new knowledge and you don’t want to put anything in place that dampens that.”
Amen to that. I hope that I can say and do the same if I were placed in a similar situation.