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on 18-12-2014 12:17 PM
nero_wulf wrote:
Why is it different?
How did his PRIVATE emails get out to the left press?
From the story
"My lawyer informs me that accessing my email is 'a criminal offence' and the university's security service is currently looking into the matter," Professor Spurr told the website.
Hope the person who hacked and released PRIVATE emails is caught and charged
Sorry, but it is obvious the emails were leaked to the press by one of the recipients of them... no hacker to catch, no charges to be laid.
We do not need people like him holding positions in our Unverisities, nor having any influence in the national curriculum.
Professor Barry Spurr resigns from University of Sydney after email leaks
Professor Barry Spurr has resigned from the University of Sydney, two months after he was exposed for sending a series of inflammatory emails that included derogatory references to Aboriginals, Asians and women.
The university released a statement on Thursday morning saying the poetry professor had submitted his resignation, which had been accepted by the university.
"At Professor Spurr's request, the university will provide no further comment on this matter," the statement said.
Professor Spurr was suspended from the university in October, pending an investigation into his leaked emails,
which were published on the New Matilda website.
In the series of emails written to friends and colleagues spanning more than two years, Professor Spur referred to people as "abos", "bogans", "fatsoes", "Mussies" and "Chinky-Poos".
He called the late South African president Nelson Mandela a "darkie" and Archbishop Desmond Tutu a "witch doctor"; referred to Prime Minister Tony Abbott as an "Abo lover"; and described an Aboriginal family as a human "rubbish tip".
He also referred to University of Sydney chancellor Belinda Hutchinson as "an appalling minx".
Professor Spurr claimed the emails were written in jest as part of a "whimsical" game of linguistic one-upmanship.
At the time, Professor Spurr had been employed as a specialist consultant to make recommendations to the federal government's review of the national English curriculum.
