Laurentian University professor loses class after asking students to sign form allowing offensive language
At the start of this school year, Laurentian University professor Michael Persinger handed his first-year psychology students a form warning them he might use profanities and other potentially offensive language during his lectures.
He listed some examples: the F-word. A homophobic slur. A slang word for female genitalia.
If any of those words made them feel uncomfortable, now was their chance to bow out.
Persinger insists his use of “frank expressions” in class aren’t meant to embarrass or demean, but to open students’ eyes to how emotionally charged words can affect their thinking and reasoning.
University administrators, however, apparently see things differently. Last month, the cognitive neuroscientist — who made headlines years ago for developing the “God Helmet,” an apparatus designed to create religious experiences by stimulating the temporal lobes — was called to the provost’s office and told he was no longer allowed to teach the remainder of the year-long class.
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At the start of this school year, Laurentian University professor Michael Persinger handed his first-year psychology students a form warning them he might use profanities and other potentially offensive language during his lectures.
He listed some examples: the F-word. A homophobic slur. A slang word for female genitalia.
If any of those words made them feel uncomfortable, now was their chance to bow out.
Persinger insists his use of “frank expressions” in class aren’t meant to embarrass or demean, but to open students’ eyes to how emotionally charged words can affect their thinking and reasoning.
University administrators, however, apparently see things differently. Last month, the cognitive neuroscientist — who made headlines years ago for developing the “God Helmet,” an apparatus designed to create religious experiences by stimulating the temporal lobes — was called to the provost’s office and told he was no longer allowed to teach the remainder of the year-long class.
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Laurentian University professor loses class after asking students to sign form allowing offensive language | National Post
