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Student hounds prof running for office

by mtippett | October 25, 2007 at 07:55 am

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MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - A politically conservative student armed with a video camera and a Web site is trying to force a Democratic congressional candidate out of his teaching job at Central Michigan University.

Dennis Lennox, a 23-year-old junior, has posted videos on YouTube of himself questioning assistant professor Gary Peters about campaigning for office while holding a prestigious position at the university.

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Paschen

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at 20:16 on July 28th, 2008

mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.

politisite

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at 12:28 on July 29th, 2008

mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff. There is nothing wrong with a professor to run for office. The divide is if he is campaigning at the college. Conservative Dennis needs to put away his camera and get back to his studies in Political Science. My understanding is that the professor is privatly funded and works part time. What Dennis seems to be saying is, you have to be weathly to run for office. Be able to live without having a job. How will weathy congressperson understand the avg joe if he can campaign and not work.

julianw

at 12:29 on July 29th, 2008

Gary Peters gets a smiley face in his only review on ratemyprofessors.com.

1/14/08 PSC300 4 5 5 4 Awesome, awesome, awesome. If you REALLY want to learn about state politics from someone who has spent much of his life involved in them, take his class. Contrary to some beliefs, he is non-partisan and really gives you info from years of first-hand experience. I would say that he is the professor at CMU that you can learn the most from...