Maggie's Farm

It is an interesting article regarding tenure. But, alas it does not reveal the true evil: professors searching for jobs who are known to be the leading edge in a humanities field, but are not part of a particular social network. They are invited in to be "distinguished scholars" for a year and they earn a nice check for a year. But, then they are asked for their syllabus, course outlines, and contacts. Then they are sent home. And, the lazy half assed bastards who have tenure--what do you think they do? Let met spell it out for you. They take the syllabus, the course outline, and the contacts and use them to "re-design" a new course, or a new curriculum, and in many cases an entire department--holding themselves out as experts. By the way they are the faculty members whose Curriculum Vitae no longer names their doctoral thesis, or the degrees which they have received on their own scholarship. Nope those are the women and white castratos whose job security gives them a license to steal. I have one email from a woman at the UW who wrote to tell me DH to come in and review a speech she was going to give discussing his field of expertise--the reason she needed to use a man looking for a job--she HAD NO EXPERIENCE in the field she was going to talk about! The abuse is never ending--because there is tenure without the discipline of a system of values. Then there is the group of women for whom my husband refused to work--because I refused to let him continue in their nuthouse. He had been department chair for 12 years without tenure (contract renewed every year). When they broke the contract by trying to put the chancellor's wife into DH position and holding him to write research grants--we left! Not very nice people these folks from a particular "village". However, what has been so evil is they have stalked us for 14 years. They have refused to allow him to get a job, they have interrogated my 80 year old mother in the retirement home. They have stalked me and followed me to conferences, they have contacted all of our neighbors. They have done that--because they are a protected group! No attorney will confront women or men from this powerful group.