And Georgia State is there to give it to ‘em
A powerful state lawmaker believes Georgia’s university system must not be too bad off financially if it can afford to employ experts in oral sex, male prostitution and “queer theory.”
Rep. Calvin Hill (R-Canton) said the university system has resisted accepting the budget cuts that nearly every other part of state government has absorbed as lawmakers fill a $2 billion hole in the budget. But, meanwhile, he said, Georgia State University is touting its faculty as experts on issues that are outside what he believes to be the university’s mission.
“I’m saying we all need to pull together and when we have things that are extraneous and outrages, which I don’t think should be discussed with our tax dollars, maybe some of this will come to mind when we have to make budget cuts,” said Hill, vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
Georgia State, like most colleges and universities, produces an annual guide to its faculty experts. These are professors, instructors, lecturers or administrators with demonstrated expertise in their particular field. The guide is used by journalists, public policy organizations and governments to find information or experts.
Georgia State’s 2009 experts guide identifies Jack Boozer, professor of communications, as an expert on “queer theory,” senior sociology lecturer Mindy Stombler as an expert in oral sex, and faculty member Kirk Elifson as an expert in male prostitution.
“All colleges and universities have faculty with a wide and deep range of expertise related to specific disciplines,” said John Millsaps, spokesman for the Georgia Board of Regents.
Some areas of expertise are technical, political or scientific, Millsaps said, “some may be mundane, others may cover controversial subjects. All require individuals who meet the accepted standards and requirements within their respective fields in order that public policy and decisions can be made based upon solid research and knowledge.”
Wow, I’m glad our tax dollars are put to such good use.
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Oh no!
S-E-X!
eyeroll
Privatize education completely and you don’t have these issues…
Of course, Sen. Johnson wants to do away with private education, so I would assume we will have more and more of these issues…
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Ah yes. I love it when the fundies put on their fiscally responsible cloak and condemn crap they would have condemned had economic times been good to.
Georgia State needs a professor of “asshat theory” to study Mr. Hill.
interesting–i read the blurb and think yeah–gsu doesn’t need some chick teaching students how to give blah, blah, blah–but then i read the ajc article and google her and find she is a published sociology researcher and lecturer who happpens to have done research in this area and links it to larger social mores and events–which is kinda what sociolgy is about–she’s not andy dick giving housewives lessons in “old school”–this is the sort of stuff they do at liberal arts colleges–its like having an expert in pi at the trade school up on north avenue…
How come I never had a female college professor willing to let us know she was an expert in oral sex? I’m going back to school.
Wait, I just looked, and decided I’m definitely NOT going back:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwsoc/faculty/picture/stombler.jpg
Sure the economy sucks, but does it swallow?
I’ll get my coat…
Sex ed. has become a political hot potato. And who writes the textbooks and defines the curriculum? And what are they skipping for all this? P.E.? Wood shop? Geometry? Maybe it’s better to Get rid of sex ed.
It’s Georgia State, Game Fan. These are probably people that research these things.
Also, to extend (Beavis laugh here) what Dr. Jay said, these professors are probably much better with the stats than the actual technique.
Is no one else concerned about a lawmaker trying to dictate through funding what colleges do and do not teach? Do we really want to go down that road?
(no one else has so I’ll go there
I sure don’t remember having a teacher in oral sex when I was in college. I’m pretty sure I’d have taken that class. I wonder what her final was like.
But I do get the impression that the colleges around Ga are not being very cooperative about this whole cutting back thing. Not a good impression to be making right now…
Having read the article and thought about it humor aside this is so off the base that Rep. Hill should resign on the grounds he is too stupid to make laws. These folks are “experts” in their area of study, they are not teaching these classes. The list also contains “experts” in politics, economics, history etc… and they are good both for GSU and for the University System in general. Exposure and press for our universities is a good thing even if you don’t agree with the subject matter.
Rep. Hill should pull up his pants and apologize to each of those professors personally as well as the University System and the citizens of Georgia. If you can’t take the time to read the information you should just shut up and sit there.
Just some thoughts
How about this for sex ed? Show a crack whore with her mouth ate up with cold sores.
The state government should go ahead and legalize gambling and prostitution.
One of the things I learned in my time in Holland was that when “vices” are not legally prohibited, they are not seen as forbidden fruit and are less tempting.
It will take generation, but the crime rate will be cut by 70% and a few new sources of tax revenue will be open. Fewer drug addicts will walk our streets and VD will be less prevalent.
A lot of this stuff they don’t teach you in school. Hence the need for some “homeschooling”. Another lesson would be the “booty call”. We’re talking about sex for the fiscal conservative. No dinner, no flowers, just “Git yo ass over hea beatch!”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booty_call_(slang)
Game Fan wrote:
How about this for sex ed? Show a crack whore with her mouth ate [sic] up with cold sores.
That would be eaten up with cold sores.
Georgia State really needs a house cleaning. This is a pro-Islamic organization run by Dr. Stewart called Middle East Center – Establish Center for Peace, Culture and Development. I have been to some of there lectures and it is very sympathetic to Hamas and similar organizations. But, I guess it is no worse than the Carter Center.
ODB – actually, that would be “et up with col’ sores”.
Her mouth would be so ate up with cold sores she couldn’t eat nuthin’.
Some people do say “ate up” even if it ain’t correct. Like the Longhorn commercial with the Big Haired lady: “Just ate up with atmosphere…”
Y’all know what a “coyote” is? That’s if you go home with a woman and she’s so ugly that you’d rather chew your arm off than wake her up the next morning.
Ya see there? Conservatives can have fun too. And solve issues in the private sector to boot. Without all the damn politicians, bureaucrats and taxpayer funded “education”. And apparently there’s less controversy when you quit arguing with people over which textbook is best! But sadly, I’m afraid too many Republicans are hopelessly stuck in the old paradigm.
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