Seriously, folks: have you heard the one about the Roosevelt University professor who was fired for telling a joke in class?
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“After college Robert settled again in Chicago. Even though he was gay, he began work at R. J. Daley College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. When the liberals came to power in the nineties, with their polices [sic] of Affirmative Action in education, Robert ran into political and labor union difficulties. Although he was a department chair with an exemplary record for many years at the City Colleges of Chicago, he was ‘ethnically cleansed’ and banned from the college by the Chancellor in May, 1997.”
Engler says he was counting on the union to protect his interests, and was assured by them that they would. RAFO filed grievances on his behalf, and on September 5, 2010, a union rep informed him by e-mail that “Our position is that the contract does not permit nor does it allow termination for refusal to cooperate with a formal University investigation.”
As for the crack that started it all: “A group of sociologists did a poll in Arizona regarding the state’s new immigration law. Sixty percent said they were in favor, and 40 percent said, ‘No hablo Ingles.’”
