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- From: bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor)
- Subject: Re: A few thoughts on Fabrikant.
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- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:33:47 GMT
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- In article <87357@netnews.upenn.edu> rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug28.214318.1166@tc.cornell.edu> bai@msiadmin.cit.cornell.edu (Dov Bai-MSI Visitor) writes:
- >>In article <87317@netnews.upenn.edu> rsk@aspen.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) writes:
- >>>Very well. Here is how I have "learned to live with jerks": I recommend
- >>>against granting them tenure. Is this real enough for you?
- >>>
- >>>In any case, I was simply giving my method for "learn[ing] to live with jerks"
- >>>in the "real world", as a previous article suggested; in no way did I suggest
- >>>that this method would be appropriate for anyone other than myself.
- >>
- >>Wonderful attitude.
- >>Just to prevent any misunderstanding: The previous line is a SARCASM.
- >
- >Hmmm. This is interesting. I mention that I recommend against granting
- >tenure to jerks; and I further mention that this is simply my approach,
- >and may not be suitable for everyone. What part of this do you have a
- >problem with? (Do you think that I should, instead, recommend *for*
- >granting tenure to jerks? Or do you think that I should, instead,
- >demand that everyone adopt my attitude?)
-
- I think that this sub-thread is distracting us from the main issue,
- becasue it deals too much with personality charactrisics of yours. I
- dont know you personally, and I certainly dont know anything about the
- specific cases which you approved/disapproved for tenure. What I am
- arguing is that trashing scientific careers of junior faculty for any
- reason other then quality of teaching/research is wrong and goes
- against the goals of a university.
-
- My choice of the word "jerk" in an earlier posting may have been a poor
- one. I did not realize that it might distract us that much.
-
- >>---Rsk
-
- Dov
-