Professor Kent: Having taught in tertiary education for more than 30 …

Comment on LSU Board committee reports on allegations by Ron Stone M.D..

Professor Kent: Having taught in tertiary education for more than 30 years, I can tell you that well under 1% of my lectures were ever recorded, and this usually by a student who wanted to use it as a learning tool. Frankly, brother Ron, it would be nigh impossible for myself, much less a university board, to get a trancript or recording of any one lecture of thousands that I’ve given over the years.I don’t think you have a realistic grasp on how to bring something from years past in the classroom beyond the realm of allegation to hard fact.Perhaps you’ve gotten your point across by now. Any board member who failed to anticipate infidel lectures in advance, and failed to send a spy to those courses in advance so that an actual record can be obtained for evidentiary purposes, deserves to be named and flogged publicly for “smokescreening” to the point of resignation. Perhaps you’ll convince others of your point of view.

Perhaps your lectures weren’t worth keeping on hand for posterity. However, we have seen that ample direct evidence exists for the alleged infractions mentioned here.

Regarding “others” of my point of view–there are many. But not too many, as I see it, on the Board.

My point is that the Board has not done its “due diligence” in this matter. The idea that “Perception is the ultimate reality” must be the mantra of the Board, as they have chases perceptions and beliefs instead of facts!

The controlling majority are either afraid to “step up to the plate” when they are needed or simply don’t want to “go to bat” at all, at any time for any reason.

Regarding “resignation”–for those Board members who have been a part of this debacle and want to resign, that is fine with me. Certainly there must be at least a couple of dozen bible-believing SDA’s willing to to the assigned work given to the Board, and who will refuse to put their “heads in the sand” regarding important matters such as we see at LSU?

Ron Stone M.D. Also Commented

LSU Board committee reports on allegations
Well, Prof, perhaps the Board and its committee could use its power of overseer to actually get any records of what was allegedly taught, either printed, recorded, or whatever. Then, the information should be studied to see whether the alleged “infractions” actually occurred, instead of wondering whether someone thought they might have heard of seen something wrong.

As part of their duties the Board, according to LSU bylaws, is the “final authority” in matters related to the LSU.

As such, it can “order and control all affairs and business” of LSU.

“…evaluate the effectiveness of policies and personnel…”

“…make changes in harmony with the goals, philosophy, and objectives of the university…”

I ask the Board to simply perform its given duties, instead of avoiding the real issue and smokescreening matters with a ” vague statement and a survey.!


LSU Board committee reports on allegations

Eddie: If so, why should a jury ever listen to the testimonies of witnesses to a crime when they could simply ask the alleged perpetrator?

You’re doing a great job trying to smokescreen what I’ve said, but it won’t work, Eddie.

Witnesses and “grilling” the perp may be PART of an investigation, but won’t be nearly as good as actually seeing, hearing, and witnessing the alleged “misconduct” or crime committed.

So, the Board has used “secondary” sources, which are merely perceptions or “feelings” about what was said, instead of actually getting to the heart or root of the problem.

Where is the evidence that they actually went to the primary sources, as I’ve mentioned before? Anyone have any information on this important matter?

I’m also not “upset” at the survey [edit]. It is a source of one type of “secondary” evidence, but still doesn’t address what was actually said, written, and endorsed. We now know how “some” students “interpreted” the information, but this still doesn’t tell us what was actually stated.

Why won’t the Board use its power, as stated in the LSU bylaws? My guess is they’re afraid of what they may find!


LSU Board committee reports on allegations
One of the classic ways of using ineptness, as we see in the Board, is demonstrated by the LSU administration,in the article in the April Recorder (p.37) Randall Wisbey states, “some of our students have felt that their belief in creation has not always been respected.”

Notice how Wisbey continues the emphasis(initiated by the Board) on how the STUDENTS perception is the focus, instead of the actual issue which we have been discussing here. How they have “felt” and “their belief” is somehow the major issue to be addressed, instead of what the PROFS have been teaching in the classrooms.

He states that “this is not acceptable” But what is “not acceptable” is not the TEACHING of “evolution as fact” (since this is not addressed) but the students’ perception of what has been taught.

How Wisbey is going to change these perceptions is not stated either.

Dan Jackson (Pres. NAD) doesn’t give us much hope either. (same article) He states, “I want to commend the board for their work in preparing this statement. He has nothing to say about what they have actually “done” since the Board has done virtually nothing of any substance.


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