I think this was also telling:

She was her live in girlfriend whom she “punched ... in the face, kicked her in the face and torso, scratched her, choked her, and grabbed her by the hair in order to slam her against the wall.”

After reading The Advocate article, which outlines her transgressions, I have to agree....particularly since she’d been warned. Academic freedom doesn’t mean you can make misogynistic jokes at your students’ expense or create a hostile environment by responding with “fuck, no” to student questions.

That doesn’t change the fact that i was good at my job

Brandi’s really going out in true Brandi style — scorched Earth. “If I’m not going to be around, the least I can do is stir a bunch of shit from the sidelines!”

*NSFW* I am sure this will be covered later but the BBHMM video is out! http://vevo.ly/2jouDf

I remember him saying this when he spoke at my graduation. Incredible speaker/sushi maker.

‘shuttered’ is a weird descriptor for a house, no?

“I had very high expectations of my students and low tolerance of poor teaching”

This just struck me as an unusual sentence to add to the statement,

I bet they’re not even married. Even the married ones.

The AAUP says they’ve examined the documentation of the faculty hearing Buchanan underwent, which says that while she used “profanity, poorly worded jokes, and occasionally sexually explicit jokes in her teaching methodologies,” there was no evidence that she directed this behavior “against any particular individual,…

Additionally, she was asked not to return to more than one elementary school in the Baton Rouge area within the last three years because of her inappropriate behavior.

I was really stressing out yesterday over whether it was ok to take three Aleve in the span of 24 hours (muscle tears in your lumbar area are no joke, Jezzies) because I don't want to destroy my liver, but then I remembered that LiLo has already lived to 29 years of age and I decided it would probably be okay.

I’m confused also, but my understanding (I am an academic) is that tenure is a protection from punishment just like first amendment rights, but instead of being protected from being jailed, its protection from being fired for speaking ones mind openly. So thats what the professors and AAUP position is— that she was…

You are in the same position as most people. Tenure is not being protected from termination. All it does is make it harder for them to fire you. If this lady had only a few, isolated complaints, nothing would have happened. She obviously has quite the track record, and when you’ve got students and parents (tuition)…

Commonly misunderstood! They just have to prove that you fucked up- if they have solid documentation, that’s all they need.

I’ve known more than a few people who felt they were “just having high standards” when their behavior was entirely out of line and abusive or bullying. Some people just aren’t that capable of seeing what they are really doing.

You can still be fired for cause. The intent of tenure is to protect academics from backlash when they choose to research politically unpopular topics or say politically unpopular things, not to let people get away with being abusive or sexually harassing others or committing gross academic misconduct.