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Friday, August 20, 2010

Prophets at Work

17 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now that the term is about to start, we need to think about a Vote of Censure in our representative bodies against the members of the President’s Reorganization Committee and the President for violating university policies, the Constitution of the Faculty Senate and the CBA.

My input would be that we exclude the two junior faculty members from these votes as they may not have known better. However, everyone else on the committee definitely knew the rules and chose to participate in violating them. Therefore censure is appropriate.

Anonymous said...

Lame

Anonymous said...

of course it's lame--it's a realistic depiction of a lame administration.

Morris Zapp said...

Love the Zardoz references. "Education is EVIL!!! The administration is GOOD, since it brings about only idiocy and purifies the Earth of the filth of learning..."

Anonymous said...

No, the post is lame. It's a realistic depiction of your caricature.

Anonymous said...

Calling the post "lame" sounds like a Lloydian Unethical Utterance--a bad U.U.

Art Critic said...

The compositional problem one encounters with this post is as follows. How does one parody an administration that is an auto-parody?

The Blade interview article which it parodies is a piece of adulatory journalism worthy of daily newspaper of the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz. (By the way, those of you who are not pop culture literate should know that Zardoz is a cultish movie and the name is derived from WiZARD of OZ.)

I think the post does a reasonably good job.

Anonymous said...

I like it.

Anonymous said...

Nope, it's lame.

Anonymous said...

Allow me interject this spoiler before the conversation dies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12hxZ77gZus&NR=1

Thank me later.

Anonymous said...

Zardoz, as a movie, has a certain quaint charm despite its pretentious weirdness. DOn't forget that was back in the 1970s, as in "far out, man." I wish quaintness could be seen in the Jacobs' Administration

Anonymous said...

I don't understand.

Hundred of tenured, unionized faculty members and the best response you've mustered to the Blade piece "interviewing" our corrupt president are a few sophmoric cartoons?

Where the hell is AAUP? Where the hell is the faculty senate? This institution is being dismantelled by a group of neo-con swine and the best you can do to resist are cartoons on a blog?

I challenge an enligtened faculty member or members to respond in the Blade, and not in this Blog, which amounts to little more than a private club (think preaching to the choir).

Fight back. You have tenure, you have a union. You have the moral high ground. Use it while you have it.

PSA is powerless, and sadly seem to be un-interested. The non-faculty unions seem to have been rendered powerless. The student are too transient to really force change. Leadership must come from the tenured faculty. Without you, we are all lost.

I challenge you. Organize. Resist.

Bloggie said...

To Anonymous 3:28:

Bloggie shares your sentiments.

Anonymous said...

While I share your sentiments, the Toledo Blade will not be a help in our struggles. Joseph H. Zerbey, IV, is President and General Manager for the Toledo Blade and is on our Board of Trustees. You may have noticed how soft the Blade has been recently on the University. That is the reason why. They will not publish much of what is said about this University unless it is so bad that they cannot ignore it. Have you seen anything about the most recent USNWR ratings in the Blade? How about reports from the recent Board meetings? How about anything relevant about the University?

Whipper Snapper said...

To Anonymous 3:28:

Righteous indignation comes in all stripes and colors. Your version censors this blog as being "sophmoric" (sic = sophomoric) rather than "enligntened" (sic = enlightened.

But wait! You are in fact the turnip None, Shy Queen of the Hastily-Composed Venal Post.

Jacobs pays you too much for no talent. But that is not unusual. He not only suffers fools but recruits and promotes them regularly.

Back on the cart, turnip!

Anonymous said...

Our beloved BOT, where crony capitalism meets crony academia, and the two become one!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...

"My input would be that we exclude the two junior faculty members from these votes as they may not have known better."

Without speaking to these two individuals, a bigger issue here that rarely goes discussed is the (sorry) state of our junior faculty. While tenured faculty are taking most of the heat, the mediocre-at-best "next generation", more interested in their own advancement and clawing their way to the top than anything else, play a large part in the difficulties we have here. They are politically savvy as wolves, yet they are consistently let off the hook for not knowing any better. For all of the departments requesting additional faculty, I would hesitate before assuming we are even able attract truly good tt prospects to this campus any more and aren't just scraping the bottom of the barrel. At this point, it's professionally embarrassing to consider the future direction UT is headed towards.