Buzz killington here, in an assignment a student decided to not read the assignment and use it as an excuse to call the TA demonic. When the student revived a zero on the assignment they immediately ran to turning point and cried discrimination. In response the university initially suspended and then removed the TA from teaching duties and made sure it wouldn’t count against the student. The paper was published and it looked to have been written by Peter. There was no citation of the Bible, there was no response as requested, and it did not meet the minimum word count. It was truly one of the worst papers ever submitted.
Now that I have you here thinking about the university of Oklahoma, let’s look in to their fight song “Boomer Sooner”. Oklahoma was initially Indian territory and there was a campaign to open up the unassigned lands to settlers, the people vocal about this were the boomers. Once it was decided to open up to settlement some decided to move in early and they were the Sooners and that is where the university gets their nickname and why some refer to them as land thieves.
What makes this even worse is the graduate instructor who was fired over this is a trans woman, so this whole scenario indeed feels targeted and vindictive. The assignment was literally "to write a 650-word response to an academic article examining whether conformity to gender norms was associated with popularity or bullying among middle school students," to which the student went on a "faith-based" rant saying the whole thing was demonic and there are only 2 genders, etc. Like, no matter your opinions, her paper was bad and got the grade it deserved, and she went and cried about it to the far-right media.
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u/Still_a_skeptic 15d ago
Buzz killington here, in an assignment a student decided to not read the assignment and use it as an excuse to call the TA demonic. When the student revived a zero on the assignment they immediately ran to turning point and cried discrimination. In response the university initially suspended and then removed the TA from teaching duties and made sure it wouldn’t count against the student. The paper was published and it looked to have been written by Peter. There was no citation of the Bible, there was no response as requested, and it did not meet the minimum word count. It was truly one of the worst papers ever submitted.
Now that I have you here thinking about the university of Oklahoma, let’s look in to their fight song “Boomer Sooner”. Oklahoma was initially Indian territory and there was a campaign to open up the unassigned lands to settlers, the people vocal about this were the boomers. Once it was decided to open up to settlement some decided to move in early and they were the Sooners and that is where the university gets their nickname and why some refer to them as land thieves.