I would expect this from Yale, but Dartmouth?  Via  Randazza from the Wall Street Journal,

Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of “French narrative theory” that it amounted to a hostile working environment. She is also readying lawsuits against her superiors, who she says papered over the harassment, as well as a confessional exposé, which she promises will “name names.”

I don’t have a clue what “French narrative theory” is.  If I had to guess, it’s a new psychosis that afflicts the terminally pretentious and causes them to lose touch with reality.  It seems to me that allowing someone suffering from this disease to be around students is imprudent.  It could be contagious.

So was it mere “unreceptiveness” that brought about this virulent attack?

Ms. Venkatesan lectured in freshman composition, intended to introduce undergraduates to the rigors of expository argument. “My students were very bully-ish, very aggressive, and very disrespectful,” she told Tyler Brace of the Dartmouth Review. “They’d argue with your ideas.” This caused “subversiveness,” a principle English professors usually favor.

If anyone wondered whether the rumors that Dartmouth had gone to the dogs were true, there you have it.  There is a zero tolerance policy firmly in place against arguing with ideas.  We can’t have that.  It’s “subversive”. 
Of course, I thought subversive was a major at Dartmouth.

Sensing that Prof. Venkatesan was deeply engaged in pedantic pedagogy in lieu of prozac, I continued to follow the drama:

After a winter of discontent, the snapping point came while Ms. Venkatesan was lecturing on “ecofeminism,” which holds, in part, that scientific advancements benefit the patriarchy but leave women out. One student took issue, and reasonably so – actually, empirically so. But “these weren’t thoughtful statements,” Ms. Venkatesan protests. “They were irrational.” The class thought otherwise. Following what she calls the student’s “diatribe,” several of his classmates applauded.

Ms. Venkatesan informed her pupils that their behavior was “fascist demagoguery.” Then, after consulting a physician about “intellectual distress,” she canceled classes for a week. Thus the pending litigation.

Now some might ponder the relationship between “ecofeminism” and Mother Nature, but you would only prove yourself to be ignorant.  The point was clear:  Add any prefix to feminism and you get a new field of scholarship, and anyone who disagrees is a misogynist and has no chance of getting a decent law school recommendation.

Alright.  Enough being facetious.  This is a real, honest-to-God Dartmouth professor.  She actually got herself a job teaching young people.  She actually presented sufficient scholarly interest to land a spot at an Ivy League college.  And she is clearly, utterly insane.  As is whoever hired her. 

Somebody needs to give all these profs, deans and other tenure-lovers a really good smack.  Our children’s future depends on it,