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Monday, March 07, 2005

Students say Prof ranted against Mexicans

The following article was sent by one of our readers from Pueblo.

Students say prof at CSU-Pueblo ranted against illegal immigrants

School officials are investigating alleged remarks by forensic anthropology professor Dan Forsyth.

By PETER ROPER
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN

Colorado State University-Pueblo officials are investigating a complaint from a freshman Hispanic woman who said professor Dan Forsyth required his forensic anthropology students Thursday to sit through a 15-minute tirade against illegal immigrants and Mexicans.

The woman filed a letter of complaint with the university's affirmative action office Friday and Provost Barbara Montgomery's office has begun an investigation.

The student, Victoria Watson, 20, said Forsyth's angry lecture caused her to get up and leave the classroom. She claims he then made an abusive remark to her as she walked out of the room.

Another student in the class independently confirmed Watson's account of Forsyth's lengthy, emotional remarks about his dislike for illegal immigrants, but could not confirm any comment made to Watson as she left the room. full article

2 Comments:

At 9:42 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's too bad that college students are continuoulsy forced to listen to the nonsenical rantings of thier professors. While I disagree with what this professor said, I think that he should face no punitive action. Afterall was it not just recently that Ward Churchill came out praising the 9/11 terrorists and calling thier victims little Eichmanns? This anthrpolgists comments against illegal aliens and Hispanics were harsh but not once did he encourage their murder. If Churchill can stay, so should this Anthropologist.

 
At 4:28 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

there is more pure mexican indians then us indians, they still speak there native languaje, there is about i million maya indians in the us. they talk indian spanish. and english.in mexico many of my people talk native . you can t say, there not native american. so is ok to be a black indian, or a white indian, but mexican are not, why. stephen mizton

 

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