Originally Posted by renrod (Post 646670)

Originally Posted by buggyone (Post 646730)

Yes, it does say the student was a MORMON. The article also said he went to discuss it with the instructor's supervisor and has been suspended from THAT class. (Not expelled from college). How did the student conduct himself with the supervisor? Was that the reason he got suspended from that one class? Too many things we do not know about it.

It was some sort of communications class. Obviously, the students were supposed to communicate their emotions about the directive. Very stupid exercise. The student would not have been suspended from that class if he had reasonably explained his refusal to the class. A college class is not the Army when you can be discliplined for refusing to follow a directive.

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 648129)

FAU drops exercise asking class to stomp on

Tells more of the story. Sounds like some media have been cherry picking about which facts to present. The whole point of the communication exercise is to communicate that some words are a lot more than just words but are symbols of hopes, dreams, faith, hope, etc.

Originally Posted by Bucco (Post 648219)

"Sounds like some media have been cherry picking about which facts to present. "

And you find this unique in some way ????

Originally Posted by LndLocked (Post 648236)

I find it more than a little ironic that many on this thread jumped to conclusions and acted in a very unchristian way(imo) .... while defending Christianity.

Disproportionate out rage over perceived mistreatment's of words & symbols have caused immense human suffering through out history.

Originally Posted by blueash (Post 647067)

Just from my reading of the UPI story, no further googling... A professor is teaching a course in intercultural communication.. In other words exploring the difficulties members of one culture have in understanding and communicating with those in an other culture. What might be useful to do is to try to see how "they" experience what "we" do to help us gain some insight into why "they" react the way "they" do. For instance why do Muslims get so furious if "we" happen to print a cartoon about Allah or defile a Koran. Why don't "they" just accept that it is just a book or a cartoon and get on with their life?
Here we have a strict adherent Christian who is angered by an exercise which seems to attack his faith. Note that others in the same classroom chose not to do the exercise and seemingly without consequences. Only this student as far as reported felt the need to go to the supervisor and complain that his faith was being attacked. Sounds to me like the exercise hit a nerve, which should be the goal of the exercise. So now that student and other students have a bit of the sense of anger that Muslims feel when the tenets of their faith are ridiculed. And that some would see this as an attack on Christianity, knee jerk defending of the faith, only shows that maybe we all need to learn to be more interculturally sensitive so we don't jump to wrong conclusions before getting facts.

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725 (Post 648129)

FAU drops exercise asking class to stomp on

Tells more of the story. Sounds like some media have been cherry picking about which facts to present. The whole point of the communication exercise is to communicate that some words are a lot more than just words but are symbols of hopes, dreams, faith, etc.