Re: [Phys-l] If Bob LaMontagne had blue eyes

[E Muehleisen <ironmill@hotmail.com>]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Please! Enough of political wrangling, snide remarks, racial issues and personal diatribes. I believe that this list is presumably devoted to matters scientific in general and physics in particular. Please return to the aim of the list.

Dr. E.C. Muehleisen

Too much of a good thing is wonderful!



> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:30:57 -0500
> From: besser@marian.creighton.edu
> To: rbtarara@sprynet.com; phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
> Subject: Re: [Phys-l] If Bob LaMontagne had blue eyes
>
>
> I agree with Rick on this one. The derisive and pejorative nature of 
> David's posts are IMHO offensive and inappropriate to this list.
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Richard  Tarara wrote:
>
> > I would like to ask David to watch the tone of his posts.  They are reading
> > as personal and derisive to me.  Don't know for sure if he is the one who
> > changed the subject heading to the above, but I find it inappropriate to
> > this list.
> >
> > Rick
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Appell" <appell@nasw.org>
> > To: "Forum for Physics Educators" <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:46 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Phys-l] If Bob LaMontagne had blue eyes
> >
> >
> > > LaMontagne, Bob wrote:
> > > > Whoa! How did "lazy black people" get into this?
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd still like to know why your vaunted ancestors were able to rise
> > > enough to send you to a state college, but not to a really good
> > > university like Brown or Harvard or Yale. Did they just not try enough?
> > > Not ambitious enough? Not care enough?
> > >
> > > If they had sent you to Harvard, would you too have become a
> > > billionaire, like Bill Gates?
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > > --
> > > David Appell, freelance science journalist
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> > > w: http://www.nasw.org/users/appell
> > > m: St. Helens, OR
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> -- 
> Bruce Esser
> Physics Teacher
> Marian High School
> http://marian.creighton.edu/~besser
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