Prof. Juan Cole
"The Thinker"
Juan Cole is one of zillions of Middle East history professors who will give students his own slanted view of the region. This particular activist professor teaches history at the University of Michigan. Recently, he applied for a teaching job at Yale. He didn't get it. Why? Well, according to Professor Cole, it was none other than the George W. Bush administration, the CIA and the FBI who blocked his appointment at Yale.
Here is a report from the Yale Daily News.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/jul/16/professor-denied-appointment-yale-sues-cia-and-fbi/
There is a clinical analysis for claims like these; it's called paranoia. It's the "They're coming to take me away" syndrome. What Cole fails to take into account is that left-wing professors like him have no problem getting into universities like Yale. Does anyone really believe that George W Bush, the CIA or the FBI have any pull in universities? C'mon!
A more likely explanation is that the pinheads at Yale had calculated that they had exceeded their 90% ratio of lefties. Or perhaps, there was a petulant personality conflict at work here. Who knows? Who cares?
Don't be a crybaby, Cole. Life is full of little setbacks. Be glad that you still have your gig at Michigan. Besides, Ann Arbor is only an hour from Detroit. What more could you want? Sit back, have a drink, and here's a little song for you.
There. Now don't you feel better? You didn't really need that job at Yale, did you?
The reason I didn't get a job teaching physics at the University of Minnesota is that I teach the up-down theory of electron spin, whereas the politically correct party line on electron spin holds to the left-right theory.
ReplyDeleteThe distinction appears to be of no significance to the success of electrical engineering projects, but it is a very important consideration when deciding which journal to submit papers to, and of course in tenure decisions.
Personally, I don't think Siarlys got closer than 3 blocks to the University of Minnesota unless he had to drop off some students there on his school bus route.
ReplyDeleteFYI. They typically hire physics teaching jobs to people who actually graduated college. That's a distinction of some significance in academia, at least it used to be.
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Irony is wasted on Miggie.
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