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Greg Markley Articles

NYU Professor Fired for Being “Too Hard” on Students — Who Was to Blame?

OPINION — In May 2005, as we were finishing student teaching for a master’s degree in education at AUM, a Nigerian classmate said he might not be able to graduate. He was told that the high school students he was teaching in rural Alabama could not understand his...
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Auburn Church Battling Vandals, Intolerance

OPINION — In the drama “Absence of Malice” (1981), a reckless reporter (Sally Field) gets her comeuppance from an honest character (Paul Newman). After a devout Catholic woman tells the reporter she had an abortion, the reporter puts that into the paper, despite...
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Libertarians Get A Bigger Profile After Ballot Access Granted

OPINION — BY GREG MARKLEY Ballot access means not “crashing the gates” but being a factor in state elections. Libertarians often vote with the GOP, but now they can proudly pull the level for candidates in their own party. Although close races between Democrats and...
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Poll Wording is Unspecific Sometimes to Confuse People

OPINION — In Lewis Carroll’s classic book “Through the Looking Glass,” the character Humpty Dumpty says, “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” It is said that he used a “rather scornful” way of relating his opinions....
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