The musician Bjork once noted that, “There is no map to human behavior”.

However, a leftist professor blaming the Republicans for the shutdown in the course of class activities was almost inevitable.

Last week, a geography professor at the public, taxpayer-funded University of Wisconsin-La Crosse used a required assignment in one of her courses to wage a campaign against Republicans, blaming them entirely for the government shutdown over federal spending.

Rachel Slocum, an assistant professor in the UW–La Crosse geography and earth sciences department, sent the vitriolic email entitled “government websites” on Oct. 1, reports Media Trackers Wisconsin.

Here it is, unexpurgated:

hi everyone: Some of the data gathering assignment will be impossible to complete until the Republican/tea party controlled House of Representatives agrees to fund the government. The Census website, for example, is closed. Please do what you can on the assignment. Those parts that you’re unable to do because of the shutdown will have to wait until Congress decides we actually need a government. Please listen to the news and be prepared to turn in the assignment quickly once our nation re-opens.

Rachel

Media Trackers forwarded the email to Joe Gow, the publicly-funded school’s chancellor.

…The chancellor also called on a dean to investigate.

“I have just spoken to the College Dean, who has now called the professor, verified the authenticity of the note, pointed out the inappropriateness of the politically partisan language, and obtained the professor’s commitment to writing a follow-up apology to the class,” Gow later wrote in an email to Media Trackers.

Slocum sent her “follow-up apology” email the next day.

In this second email, entitled “Census data assignment,” Slocum’s “apology” is by her own admission is “a more thorough, less annoyed version of shutdown events.”

…In the email’s penultimate paragraph, Slocum implores her students at the taxpayer-funded university to keep her emails secret. “But please don’t forward my emails to conservative blogs or list servs and I will make sure my emails explain things fully,” she asks.