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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Roundtable Sinks In

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please show me the reference where God said that.

God is reputed to have said many things: it seems for every reputed statement there is a repudiation.

Wamba Odelot said...

Compare this mission statement, http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html, to the language put forth in the A and S Roundtable report. Although not directly comparable with each other because of our different missions (Google to make money, UT to educate), Google's mission statement is written in basic, understandable, and clear language; UT's report? not so much....

Just because UT uses buzzwords and complicated phrases doesn't mean that we are intelligent and cutting edge. Indeed, it looks like we are a bunch of little kids trying to impress someone with our "vast" knowledge, when we really don't even know a thing. UT is like the 14 year old kid smoking cigarette butts outside the convenience store so that we can look cool among our educational peers... I wonder what UT would look like if we had a Google-like philosophy towards education.

Anonymous said...

Re: Google... It would look like a University with 80 percent of its current faculty gone, replaced with professors who were excellent or above average.

Anonymous said...

Anon at 7:27 - The first comment is from a "spambot," not a person. Its purpose is only to get you to click on the link in the ellipsis. Apparently the moderator(s) of the blog didn't realize that when they let that one slip through.

Anonymous said...

Wamba Odelot mentioned UT's report in connection with wanting to make it look like UT (administrators?) is trying to
"... trying to impress someone with our "vast" knowledge, when we really don't even know a thing."

Our "vast" knowledge isn't really so vast. More like 50% maybe. In other words, only half-vast.

Anonymous said...

re anonymous 10:31..Yes, and with 95 percent of the current administrators gone. I'm all for it.

Morris Zapp said...

"Active obfuscation." That goat definitely read thoroughly. That pretty well sums up the UT administrative philosophy.

Anonymous said...

Keep up the subversive laughter! Continue to crank it up till the day that they all, our philistine administrators, finally crack, crumble and blow away. Meanwhile they may want to stuff their ears with their misbegotten promotion letters and bonus checks. All to no avail. Their aching eardrums will suffer our derisive hoots any way every time they look in their mirrors. And, our hollers will follow them even to their shallow graves and resonate off the inside walls of their tacky coffins. There they will lay stiff like toxic twinkies to be eternally bombarded by the consequences of their shameless greed. Ptooey!

Anonymous said...

love those goats!

Anonymous said...

Has anyone else noticed that the A and S blog comments have been increasingly "anonymous" as compared to normal? Sort of strange...

Anonymous said...

We're all the same person. :)

Anonymous said...

Anon at 6:34

Why should we be anon?

In case you wondered, the administration treats us like serfs without names.

Anonymous said...

Right! United we fall! Like in "Gangs of New York"! That was the message of the film. The democratic death worth dying for. How the voiceless nevertheless have their story to tell. Our truth against your power. Dirk against daggar. Blood on the snow. We are all Anonymous here. No one may remember us. Tough T. Down with Boss Tweed and Bill the Butcher!

Anonymous said...

Goats of New York against Bill the Butcher. Its all beginning to make sense!