Showing posts with label Alberto Gonzales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alberto Gonzales. Show all posts

Monday, August 3, 2009

I wonder if ethics is in the syllabus

Forty-five professors at Texas Tech have signed a petition protesting Chancellor Kent Hance's hiring of disgraced former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to a teaching position at the university.

Mr. Gonzales, who resigned from office in a cloud of controversy after the Justice Department fired nine Assistant US Attorneys and after his (less than truthful) testimony about surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency.

"I've been in the situation room. I've been in the Oval Office to talk with the president of the United States. I think I provide a perspective that very few people teaching at Texas Tech University can provide." - Alberto Gonzales

Mr. Gonzales is slated to teach a seminar class with fifteen students this fall entitled Contemporary Issues in the Executive Branch. It is not known at this time if Mr. Gonzales' attorney will be on hand to advise the former AG whether or not to answer students' questions.

I just wonder if he'd take points off for a student answering a test question with "I don't recall."