{"id":160230,"date":"2021-02-22T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160230"},"modified":"2021-02-22T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:44:21","slug":"professor-gives-anecdote-in-class-that-offends-some-students-school-tells-him-to-resign-or-face-reputation-ruining-title-ix-inquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/professor-gives-anecdote-in-class-that-offends-some-students-school-tells-him-to-resign-or-face-reputation-ruining-title-ix-inquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Gives Anecdote In Class That Offends Some Students, School Tells Him To Resign Or Face Reputation-Ruining Title IX Inquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprofessor-gives-anecdote-in-class-that-offends-some-students-school-tells-him-to-resign-or-face-reputation-ruining-title-ix-inquisition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=160230&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1130534292-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A professor at Pacific University in Oregon says he was told to resign or face what would inevitably be a reputation-destroying Title IX inquisition.<\/p>\n<p>Inside Higher Ed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2021\/02\/22\/pacific-u-professor-says-administrators-threatened-him-title-ix\">reported<\/a> that Richard Paxton, a professor of education at the university, would tell an anecdote during class to explain schema theory:<\/p>\n<p>The story, which Paxton says he\u2019s told before without incident, was meant to illustrate the psychological schema theory of how the mind works, particularly Jean Piaget\u2019s notion that schemas develop through a process of assimilation and accommodation. Paxton says that gender is one of the most studied aspects of schema theory, in that humans quickly distinguish between male and female, so he told his students how he and some old graduate school friends once got a surprise after attending a meeting of the American Educational Research Association in New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a bar to listen to some jazz music after a good dinner, the all-male group headed to a promising spot across the street, Paxton wrote in a summary of the story provided by DesCamp. \u201cOne of the things that got our attention was a group of frankly rather fine-looking ladies standing out front smoking. \u2018Looks promising,\u2019 we said.\u201d Yet upon getting closer to \u201cwhere these ladies in short-shorts were still hanging out smoking, we noticed a sign above the door. It said: \u2018Y\u2019all come in. World\u2019s Best Female Impersonators.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, \u201cour attitudes changed. Our schemas were put in disequilibrium,\u201d Paxton said. \u201cA few nervous comments were exchanged and we quickly decided to go somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paxton said he has used this anecdote before without incident, but this time, a student accused him of transphobia.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton told IHE that after the complaint was made, he was told that if he didn\u2019t resign, he would be publicly investigated and then fired. She said he had until the weekend to decide and sent him a \u201cvoluntary separation of release agreement\u201d the same day as their meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration revised Title IX rules to require schools to provide basic due process to those accused of sex discrimination. As IHE reported, Pacific contradicted those guidelines by telling Paxton the school wouldn\u2019t investigate him if he resigned. The original resignation deal offered to Paxton during a virtual meeting, which said he would receive six month\u2019s severance pay, but the final deal only gave him three months\u2019 severance pay.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton refused to sign the resignation deal and was put on indefinite leave. He says he has received almost no information from Pacific about the investigation except a memo in December that said additional allegations had been uncovered. These allegations vaguely accused Paxton of making \u201cnegative and stereotypical comments\u201d about ethnicity and gender, including a claim that Paxton called it \u201cweird\u201d for some women to cry after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election. Another allegation claimed Paxton said \u201cJews funded the Revolutionary War.\u201d Paxton is Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>Paxton told IHE he hasn\u2019t been contacted for his side of the story. He has obtained counsel for the investigation, attorney Robin Descamp, who said her client \u201chas been disappeared\u201d and that it was more than 130 days \u201csince my client was kicked off campus like a criminal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A professor at Pacific University in Oregon says he was told to resign or face what would inevitably be a reputation-destroying Title IX inquisition. 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