On Display - When “College” Liberals “Debate”
Bill Shanahan enjoys coaching debate teams and teaching persuasion and semantics. He serves as assistant professor of communication studies at Fort Hays State University and as FHSU’s debate coach. Bill received his BS degree in speech communication from Boston’s Suffolk University, his MA in Communication from Wake Forest University and his PhD in Speech Communication from University of Texas at Austin. He has also served in the role of debate coach at several other universities.
He is a talented writer. Bill published a dissertation on Nietzche’s rhetorical nihilism and is currently writing a book on Nietzsche’s reception in Communist Germany. He has contributed a couple of chapters to a book on George Orwell’s Animal Farm, and a quantitative communication piece which was published in a mainstream communication periodical.
Passionate about citizen participation, Bill regularly participates in community and university events that stimulate civic engagement or promote public discourse of ideas. We are honored to have Bill as a member of our blog community. He welcomes mail - wshanaha at fhsu dot edu. You can browse through and read entries from Bill’s complete historical blog archives here, as the volume of his archive grows.
I dunno … I can’t tell which presidential candidate he supports …
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Wahhhh, boo-hoo. We should build bridges….
I have to agree with the prof, it’s about competition…
August 14th, 2008 at 1:12 pmwhat the hell was that about? some bitch gets all up in his mug for what? shaking his head?
nuke the universities! 
August 14th, 2008 at 1:41 pmNot dress code at that school, eh? You think this clown could get a job in the private sector????? Ha!!!!
August 14th, 2008 at 1:50 pmAre we surprised a student doesn’t respect the professor in this case. The guy looks like a homeless man who walked in off the street not a person in a postion of authority at the school.
No shoes, shorts, untucked shirt, unkept beard and hair……. I certainly wouldn’t respect the guy if I came across him.
Where is the love…….where is the peace…….where is the understanding that the left aspouses to uphold???
August 14th, 2008 at 2:09 pmI can’t tell whether this dude is a homeless tweaker or a college prof. Well, looking at him I guess its no wonder Fort Hays State University is the academic powerhouse that it is.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:31 pmUhhh…is that one dude crying? I could never be involved in a “debate” like that. I’d have punched someone and it would have felt goooood.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:57 pmI have lived with liberals, not by choice.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:46 pmThey go ballistically mad so fast, its unbelievable. And over trivial things to. Plus they are always mad. Always.
This is the kind of behavior I had to live with. The thing I find about liberals is they cannot stand toe to toe and fight. They always stomp off mad and go away. And swear, a sailor would blush.
This is what gives birth the leftest intellectuals. Obama and his wife have succeeded from this foolishness.
The Democratic parties leaders of tomorrow.
August 14th, 2008 at 3:49 pmI must have missed something in Robert’s Rules of Order . . . or screaming monkeys. Debate? Or Poo flinging!
August 14th, 2008 at 4:04 pmI am a professor (won’t i.d. my discipline) at a small college in Northern California and all I could think of when viewing this clip is “Welcome to my world.” As many of you were probably laughing, this is what a normal curriculum committee meeting on my campus looks like, though no one has yet mooned the committee members. Professor Shanahan looks just like our Biology department.
August 14th, 2008 at 4:07 pmWTF?
August 14th, 2008 at 5:22 pmhahahahaha…thanks for this, drill. I’ve always wondered what would happen if all the lowlifes were rounded up and put into one room together. Now I know.
August 14th, 2008 at 9:10 pmHow in the world is any of that behavior considered acceptable? It’s no wonder universities are pumping out complete morons.
August 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pmYep, crying like a baby, not a little frustration cry, but a full on “hold me in your arms I’m a widdle baby” cry. And it was that brothah in the yellow t-shirt too.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:25 amthis is what our politics would look like if hussein got his way.
August 15th, 2008 at 8:10 amDude… I was just waiting for someone to throw the first punch!!! I think that my 10 year old daughter could have out debated, or kicked their asses if it got that far!!!
Semper Fi!!!
August 15th, 2008 at 9:06 am