Klocek says he argued that the materials the groups were disseminating were one-sided. … Klocek, who is Catholic, not Jewish, confronted a group of 8 students manning two tables for the groups Students for Justice in Palestine, and United Muslims Moving Ahead. Here is the precipitating incident, from the Spring of 2005, as reported by the American Thinker: By all accounts, he was a popular teacher and his classes were always full. Klocek’s courses have ranged from Critical Thinking to College Writing to Languages and Cultures of the World. Klocek is guilty of nothing more than expressing pro-Israel views in the face of extremist Palestinian propaganda on Depaul’s campus, including students and non-students proliferating the usual lies and canards about Israel and Rachel Corrie. Evidently Holocaust Denial is ok at Depaul, but not expressing support for Israel.Īfter 14 years of continuous employment at the Chicago-based college, Klocek was suspended with pay last September, and then stayed suspended - this time without pay - through the winter quarter. (“New learning” evidently is not something Depaul confuses with learning, as the events there show.) Klocek’s crime? He was guilty of expressing support for Israel. The immediate target of Depaul’s campaign against political incorrectness was Thomas Klocek, a part-time adjunct professor at DePaul University’s so-called “School for New Learning”. But recently Depaul took a giant step in implementing Orwellism and anti-democratic suppression of political incorrectness on its campus. Until recently the main cause of controversy surrounding Depaul was its insistence on employing notorious anti-Semite Norman Finkelstein as an assistant professor in its political science department. Chronwatch reports:ĭepaul University is a large, if not particularly renowned academically, Catholic college in Chicago. You may remember Klocek as the professor who stopped by the tables of a Muslim student group in the school cafeteria to argue with them about their depiction of Israel and Israelis. Of immediate interest to Gates of Vienna is the ongoing saga of Thomas Klocek at DePaul University in Chicago, which has been followed by FIRE. FIRE’s core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience-the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s increasingly repressive and partisan colleges and universities. Given the level of intimidation on campus and the academic gospel of correct thinking, they certainly have their hands full. They also call for caution when interpretations of the pace and possible causes of the allergy epidemic are made on the basis of short-term studies.The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is a watchdog group that monitors infringement of first amendment rights at today’s colleges. Our results support the concept of the immune function being programmed by external factors early in life. Prevalence of sensitization to airborne allergens, unlike that to dietary allergens, has increased over a long period of time. ![]() during or immediately after World War II. ![]() ![]() The lowest prevalence of asthma and sensitization to dietary allergens was detected in those born in 1943–46, i.e. The proportion of those with diagnosed asthma differed significantly (χ 2=13.45, P=0.004) across the birth cohorts. ![]() Similar progression was not seen in sensitization to dietary allergens. The proportion of subjects with detectable IgE antibodies against aeroallergens increased consistently from the oldest to the youngest birth cohorts χ 2 trend=56.809, P<0.0001. A questionnaire elicited information on symptoms, allergic diseases and medication. Serum total and specific IgE concentrations against aeroallergens and dietary allergens were determined. We studied four groups of 100 subjects each (at ages 7, 27, 47 and 67 years), representing those born in 1990, 1963–66, 1943–46 and in 1923–26, respectively. To evaluate how the prevalence of atopic disease has changed in terms of detectable sensitization to aeroallergens and dietary allergens in a cross-sectional comparison of subjects from birth cohorts more than 60 years apart. The precise turning point for the epidemic and the antigens responsible for it remain obscure. Increased prevalence of allergic diseases in western societies has been described as an epidemic.
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