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[senor_lorca]

Hi all. Good advice all round. Crisis over... the student rewrote his paper,  after the intervention of the academic athletic support officer, who told him from my notes all the research, technical and logic problems. The student really is trying to do well, and his next paper improved a bit. I'm trying to  understand where he came here from... apparently his views are the norm there, and maybe they will change. if not, he knows about different kinds of logical fallacies now. as i've said, athletics dept made no trouble nor did student.

[duchess_of_malfi]

Thanks for the update.  That's good news.  You are lucky in having a good athletics-program academic support person. 

[tuxedo_cat]

Very encouraging news.  Thanks for letting us know what happened.

[larryc]

So now the student has a well-written and properly cited homophobic paper?

[dolljepopp]

So now the student has a well-written and properly cited homophobic paper?

Perhaps there is an internship open in Senator McCain's office...

[doggrrl]

Similar things have happened in my frosh "intro to college" seminar. I always tell them that diversity is one of the core values of academia and tell them that means being tolerant of others, even if you don't agree with what they do/are.

Don't we have an obligation to give lip service to diversity when encountering these attitudes? I try to couch it as "professionalism," which is a skill they need in the workplace (unless you're an athlete, I guess).

[larryc]

So now the student has a well-written and properly cited homophobic paper?

Perhaps there is an internship open in Senator McCain's office...

*rimshot*

[rear_view_mirror]

So now the student has a well-written and properly cited homophobic paper?

How about just telling him how easy it would be to knock down his argument, e.g. "can you prove that people have made a choice to be heterosexual", or aren't they intending to take credit (morally, as they see it) for something that nature did for them (or to them)? Then, if can shed light on this, he might have an interesting piece of writing.