There has been some CRAZY drama going on in my school, and I feel the need to rant about it. Maybe by doing so I can get my thoughts in order about it, because whenever I think about the accusations that have been flying over this issue I just get really mad. You see, one of the professors at our school, a tenured professor in the Women's Studies department, is dividing the school up. She's completely unprofessional, in classes she demands that her students participate in public protests, some of which may not be legal protests. She used to take points off or flunk students until some of them threatened to sue. If a student's beliefs differed from her own she would verbally attack them for it, as if only her views could possibly be correct. That in and of itself I think is ground for her tenure to be removed, but it all gets worse.

She rallied her students to protest against the Biology, Psychology, and Chemistry departments of my school, claiming that we abuse our animals and perform vivesection (live dissection). None of these departments do anything of the sort! Our president would never allow for that, and we treat our animals with the utmost respect. I took a biology course were we needed to test a frog's muscles to better understand the nervous system, and to do this we anesthetized the frog and then pithed it (disconnected the brain from the spinal cord) to assure that it would not feel any pain at all. Our professor was actually concerned that one of the frogs was not properly sedated and took the extra time to be perfectly sure that the frog was under. We take every precaution, and in the psychology department our rats live far better lives than wild rats. Most of us take them home as pets at the end of the year (I really wanted to, I loved my pet rat Nezumi but we have dogs at home and it would have been dangerous). To motivate them in the Skinner Box they can't be allowed to eat to their heart's content, but we don't starve them. They're still well above the average weight percentage of a wild rat. Besides, it's not healthy for the rats to eat as much as they want, they become obese. Most people prefer a 90% full-weight diet, and access to plenty of excercise. And then the Chemistry department doesn't work with animals! Their attack was completely out of the blue, and perhaps even MORE uncalled for. And the Women's Studies students who made these claims put up a bunch of horrible posters all throughout the Science building, but they didn't put them in the right departments. Some of them were put in the Math Department for crying out loud.

Of course, we science majors are extemely unhappy with this. These attacks against us are unfounded, and we're being slandered. As a psychology major I'm taking this rather personally I know, but even if I wasn't a pysch major I would feel this professor's conduct is completely unbefitting her station. She should at the very least have her tenure removed, although personally I think she should be fired. But it all gets worse! Some students formed a facebook group about students advocating for the end of vivesection, and they have a horrible picture of a white lab rat being tied down and opened up. It's pure slander, we don't even dissect our rats and we certainly wouldn't tortue them! Many fellow students posted in the group defending the science departments, and the professor herself started verbally abusing them! She claimed that if we don't agree with her then clearly we believe in animal torture. This was printed off before the professor deleted all of her comments and given to the president of our school (who is extremely angry over this whole affair). I think that act was the final nail in the coffin, this professor clearly needs to be fired. But what saddens me is that she hasn't and that she still has her tenure and is getting paid on MY tuition. And while she's getting paid, great professors are being let off because there isn't enough money. It's not just.

Currently, the women's studies students have been claiming that they want to sneak in and free all of our animals. They claim it's to save the animals, but this would probably kill the lab rats (since their albino and thus can't survive in the wild). But I personally would love to see those girls try and free the snakes (I hope they get bitten). I swear, who do those girls think they are anyway, going up against the science department. The girls in the women's studies department might think they're all tough, but it's bravado. The really tough bitches at my school are in the science departments! I know it takes some real balls to get through courses like Organic Chemistry and Comparative Anatomy. Research and Design along with Tests and Measurements were my personal stuggles. And these whinely little girls who can't even get their facts strait are going to go up against the sciences?! Even our building is a fortess for God's sake! You can't beat the science departments, we'll whoop you with clinical termnology and lengthy research.

Sorry for all of my ranting, but I really needed to get this off of my chest. I swear, every semester at school has its own drama, but I've never seen drama escalate to such a scale. I needed to tell someone about it.