Because it’s unnatural, like premarital sex and Democrats.
No, no. Blue Rondo was a scathing commentary on the history of Asia Minor, mixing the pure time of Christianity with the evil time of Islam. After all, the full title of the piece is* Blue Rondo à la Turk.*
Good point. Odd, but good. Okay, maybe just odd.
If memory serves, the major scale was dubbed the lacivious mode and banned by the church back in the day. Ok, maybe that’s not such a problem for jazz comp, but still.
I had a wonderful 10th grade biology teacher, and when it approached the time to dissect a fetal pig, I explained that I wouldn’t do it and asked for an alternate assignment. He told me the fetus was already dead, and that they weren’t exactly impregnating pigs with the purpose of creating the fetuses for killing. I responded that my goal was to withhold financial support from the meat industry, and that participating in the dissection would mean purchasing an extra fetus, which would give more money to the industry, etc. So he accepted my argument and allowed me to spend that class time in the library, researching and writing a couple of 5-page papers on biology topics of my choice (parthenogenesis and cloning). Everyone was happy.
Long anecdote to explain what I think is the appropriate response to an assignment that interferes with your sense of ethics:
- Be sure you didn’t sign up for it (this was a required high school course; I avoided taking AP biology specifically so that I wouldn’t do dissections).
- Approach the instructor as soon as you find out about the assignment.
- Explain your rationale if asked, and be prepared for hard questions about it.
- Offer to do an alternate assignment that’s at least as educational as the default assignment.
- Appreciate the extra work you’re creating for the instructor (something I didn’t really do at the time, unfortunately).
In my experience as a student watching this sort of stuff happen, most students do something like this:
- Sign up for a course.
- Fail to do the assignment.
- Afterwards explain that they didn’t do the work because their religion prevents it.
- There is no 4; they just expect the professor to be hunky-dory with that decision.
Where do these dingbats come up with this crap? I’ve heard it all now.
Bahhhh. Just insure that all of the courses you teach end in a 666 number or the course description involves eating pork, alcohol, gambling, porn, or dancing and you profs won’t have to put up with any of this shit.
HIST666: History of Public Porking: Bet you a Keg It’s Not A Dance Move
Oh, and my all-time favorite example was in a children’s literature class (for prospective elementary school teachers). The prof’s day one icebreaker was to have us all introduce ourselves and to say what kind of books we liked to read. One girl stood and said, “My name is Emily, and I hate to read, except the Bible.”
I wish we’d booed her out of the room and the profession.
Damn you are good. You’re tenured aren’t you?
FTFY
Before I get in trouble (for a perfectly inoccuous joke that happens to involve edited attributions), I apologize to the mods and Kimstu for doing it. I’m posting on my phone and thought I was over at Giraffe because all message boards look the same on Tapatalk. THEN the social worker here grabbed my attention so the 5 minute window passed to delete it. No intended blatant scofflawism was meant…
I posted here a year or so ago about a student on my campus who went to the dept. head and dean because her English prof would not give her an alternate assignment. The assignment was to view, among others, a film that was rated R.
AFAIK, she was the only student I had ever heard of who raised a fuss about such a thing. The admins sided with the prof, so the student dropped the class.
What gets me is the tunnel vision. All she could focus on was the R rating, not the content or message or meaning/theme.
I ended up having a similar situation with one of my own students later. She wasn’t comfortable with the idea of watching an R-rated film and had made it a “lifelong commitment” never to watch one. And there’s the rub. You can make all the commitments you want, but you can’t force the rest of the world to accommodate them.
There’s something that seems very at odds with Jesus’s ministry in the modern fundamentalist/evangelical disengagement with the world…they’re basically deeming the world as unclean and untouchable, which is antithetical to the example their savior set.
If Jesus were around today he’d be hanging out in bars, I’m firmly convinced.
That’s where the fishermen and harlots end up, in my experience.
We appreciate your apology, jayjay, but we’re still going to have to cut off a pinky.
5+4=9, which is divisible by 3. You know who else’s number is divisible by three?
SATAN!!!
Really. What’s up with all the FTFYs here this past day? Do people think that because they can do it on other boards, even one with a real stick up its ass otherwise (not giraffe’s board–he has something else up his ass 
), they can do it here? :mad: 