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Academia (tho mundane) Amusement




Poster: Rowanwald South <rowanwald@wwisp.com>

My Good Gentles,
   Please excuse the use of this net to post a non-scadian text, but as a 
good plenty of us are involved (one way or another) in Acadamia, I 
couldn't resist sending this on...

 My apologies if you've already seen it...

Rosine 
> ==============================================================
> WHY GOD NEVER GOT TENURE:
> 
>  1) He had only one major publication.
>  2) It was in Hebrew.
>  3) It had no references.
>  4) It wasn't in a refereed journal.
>  5) Some even doubt that he wrote it himself.
>  6) It may be true that he created the world, but what has he done
>     since then?
>  7) His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.
>  8) The scientific community has had a hard time replicating his
>     results.
>  9) He never applied to the Ethics Board for permission to use human
>     subjects.
> 10) When one experiment went awry he tried to cover it up by drowning
>     the subjects.
> 11) When subjects didn't behave as predicted, he deleted them from the
>     sample.
> 12) He rarely came to class, just told students to read the Book.
> 13) Some say that he had his son teach the class.
> 14) He expelled his first two students for learning.
> 15) Although there were only ten requirements, most students failed
>     his tests.
> 16) His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountaintop.
> 
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