Despite the fact that I`ve asked to be removed from the mailing list about 5 times now, I received another email from the Marc Kelly Family Fun Band.
I`m tired of getting these messages. They read like a cult. Here are a few gems:
"Grades are the drug that facilitate the molding of your minds. The syllabus is the doctrine that you have been brainwashed to believe in. Examinations are the filters that select for the most faithful servants.
The institution is ours, and we will fight to regain power."
"Grades hurt the soul. Bad grades cause karmic pain, and good grades tempt sacrilegious sacrifice. We believe education must be built upon nothing else but the virtues of kindness and love. Abolishing grades is the rightful path towards liberation and it will transform education to release the full potential of human creativity.
Paulo Freire is our Saviour. His Pedagogy for Liberation will bring forth the New Revolution and take us towards the Enlightenment."
Creepy, no? It may be crazier than this.
Also, why is the Student Appeals Centre blogging about the need to abolish grades?
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UNINDOCTRINATOR = NOT A WORD! This is one of the creepiest, most ridiculous, entirely deluded emails I have ever read.
It would be funny if it wasn t so effing terrifying that they are serious.
My favourite parts of the SAC blog:
-The SFUO logo
-The fact that comments are disabled, I guess they are the only ones allowed to question
-And this gem about the girl who is having trouble with her appeal: Interestingly, TingTing’s work with Marco Polo Media Communications and with the local Seven Days Newspaper involves networking with potential international students who are interested in studying at the University of Ottawa. Should she lose her appeal, TingTing says it will be important to warn potential students of her case with the University of Ottawa.
Yeah, threaten the university, thats very professional.
"6. A MESSAGE FROM THE RADICAL CAMPUS ANARCHISTS
Grades are the drug that facilitate the molding of your minds. The syllabus is the doctrine that you have been brainwashed to believe in. Examinations are the filters that select for the most faithful servants. "
Whoa. I like having a syllabus. It is a contract of the professor's expectations of a student and the students' expectations of a professor. Would it be better to have professors who choose willy-nilly to change due dates, give pop quizzes, and teach subjects that have nothing to do with the course subject .
Maybe I'm one of the "brainwashed" but I like knowing what I'm going to be learning in a class when I spend my money to be there.
Also, it's poor grammar to end a sentence with the word "in", dear email author(s). The sentence should read, "Grades are the drug that facilitate the molding of your minds. The syllabus is the doctrine in which you have been brainwashed to believe.
I love Marc Kelly.
Not for his beliefs in the "institution", but because of the fact that we will be able to tell our grand-children to come that we had a crazy man send us e-mails every month that tells us how crazy he really is.
In that sense, I do love Marc Kelly.
Whoa whoa whoa... Paulo Friere is our "Saviour"? Seriously?
Sometimes I wonder if people have started faking Marc Kelly e-mails and sending them from dummy accounts. Maybe it's gone the way of rickrolling. You know, you just got MarcRolled.
But... if he's sending it to anything other than your uottawa account you could always apply filters to keep his messages out.
Yeah, I'm working on a blog post to detail why Friere would not likely side with them. But as a Christian, I'm happy that these people are using Christian theology, although very disappointed they are using it incorrectly.
And its hard to filter them out, since they can use different addresses to send them out to people.
And I predict that MarcRolled will become the next internet meme!
hahaha. marc-rolled. i love it.
yea, every email i've received has been from a different address, but i'm 98% sure they're all coming from the same person.
at least this time, they didn't cc every address on the list. a few emails ago, i ended up receiving the email addresses of about 500 other students. whee.
Well, the reason I wonder whether the messages are faked is because a) Marc has a lot of frenemies (or at least people who think it'd be fun to make him look worse) and b) student e-mail addresses are ridiculously easy to get. I mean, I've got Marc on my facebook and he's never sent me an e-mail... and I'm listed in the student directory (before and after the new infoweb only stuff) and yet somehow I've never been spammed with this stuff. You'd think that Marc would take advantage of facebook to snag a few more e-mails? Unless... It's not him. If it's coming from different e-mail addresses it seems even less likely to be Marc. And if you previously received an e-mail that gave you 500 other addresses... well, it doesn't take a leap of imagination to think that maybe somebody on that list decided to have a little fun with those e-mails. It's not hard to fake someone's writing style. I don't know though, I'm just making wild guesses. I have no idea why I've managed to slip under the Rancourt/Kelly radar (apart from never having taken one of Rancourt's classes).
Also... on filters... try using a broad text filter to pick out e-mails with certain subject lines instead of basing it on address. Try subjects like "unindoctrinator" or "indoctrinate" or "academic freedom"... unless you're on other academic freedom type mailing lists... in which case... uhhh. I'm stumped.
Ken: Well, I don't know if you were aware, but threats are a usual work method for U of O administrators.
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