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The University of Delaware is cutting ties with a part-time professor who provoked a controversial firestorm for saying North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier "deserved" to die.
The Newark school said it will not re-hire Katherine Dettwyler, the adjunct faculty member who blasted the 22-year-old student as "young, white, rich, clueless" in a since-deleted Facebook post Tuesday.
The school's statement (pdf):
The comments of Katherine Dettwyler do not reflect the values or position of the University of Delaware. We condemn any and all messages that endorse hatred and convey insensitivity toward a tragic event such as the one that Otto Warmbier and his family suffered.
The University of Delaware values respect and civility and we are committed to global education and study abroad; therefore, we find these comments particularly distressing and inconsistent with our values. Our sympathies are with the Warmbier family.
Also at; CBS News.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Friday July 28 2017, @06:43PM (3 children)
You're an AC, and you claim to own a company with an HR department? I think you're a troll, but here goes anyway:
Would you keep one of your top executives around if they were spouting horrible crap on Facebook or Twitter, with their affiliation with your company prominently displayed? If so, you obviously have no clue how to run a company.
This is a professor, not some janitor or something. Their personal lives do reflect on the university.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @10:16PM (2 children)
I'm an AC, and I own my own company with a HR department, you insensitive clod!! (Different AC, BTW.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @01:50AM (1 child)
Wow! Me three! (Also different AC.) That's amazing! I'll bet all of us ACs own companies with HR departments!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:43AM
I identify as a company with an HR department.