A University of Kansas educator who suggested that anyone opposing a female president because of her sex should be shot has quit, the school says.
A University of Kansas educator who suggested that anyone opposing a female president because of her sex should be shot has quit, the school said in aUniversity of Kansas Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor Barbara Bichelmeyer told university staff that Phillip Lowcock left his position as a lecturer while on administrative leave. Lowcock’s departure followed the emergence of a classroom recording that captured his remarks.
Lowcock said people who use a candidate’s sex as reason for any opposition “clearly” don’t understand how the world works. “While we embrace our university’s role as a place for all kinds of dialogue, violent rhetoric is never acceptable,” Bichelmeyer continued. “It’s no secret that higher education and, more broadly, our society continue to grapple with issues of free speech, care and respect for others, and civic engagement,” Bichelmeyer wrote.
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