You cannot tell from this blog, but I am culturally undernourished and I lack exercise. This is a Wandering Post because this weekend, I have been strolling. As it is the weekend, I am also singing. I sing that T. and I are about to go eat rico menudo in the real barrio, and that … More La felicidad ja, ja, ja, ja: On Walking While White
THEN: Person: You are the tenured person and the one with the grownup house, so you should host the department party. PZ: How novel and interesting to be in this position. Out of exoticism I will definitely host this party. Besides, it is now my duty to do so. NOW: Person: You are the tenured … More On Collegiality and Service
Another of the reasons I do not work with ‘feminist’ or Women’s Studies faculty is that so much of their energy seems to go into justifying the boorish behavior of men. “He means well,” they say, “and he is surely struggling with his behavior and attitude.” The rejoinder “Consider what he did” falls upon deaf … More White Hot
Given that this is the situation, should I our should I not bother to put more time into AAUP and, or and/or, committee work for Academic Senate? AAUP is in my opinion permanently valuable, but for various reasons the charge the Academic Senate would like to give me is more attractive to me personally. Yet … More May Day
It is the weekend, so we are singing. Today we rather incongruously practiced danzón behind the stage while waiting for the Hot 8. Resignation is not one the Hot 8′s strong points. I, however, have discovered that resignation, that machine to reproduce ideology and the social order, is all the rage. People call it “acceptance” … More The Hot Eight
Here we can read FDR’s first inaugural address, delivered March 4, 1933, and hear him take the oath of office. All current candidates, and especially the Democratic ones, ought to study this text very closely. Richard Parker’s piece on FDR is very much worth reading at the present juncture in our national history. I would … More Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I would like to return to a portion of a comment in the CHE thread on tenure: What the faculty lack (and what is helping to erode the academic freedom and tenure system) is collegiality. No, not in the sense used by administrators (and faculty) to deny an outspoken faculty member tenure. Real collegiality — … More On Collegiality
PARTIAL TRIAL TRANSCRIPT These are the main two things I disliked about Reeducation (I know I have identified other sets of “main two things” before, but I keep boiling it further down). 1. One was always a suspect, always under suspicion, always on trial. One had to second guess oneself and watch what one said … More Suspected of Not “Feeling”
After returning from a well heeled conference at a well heeled university attended by mostly well heeled professors I returned home refreshed, without a care in the world but the knowledge that I had spent $70 in restaurants that I do not have room for in my budget this month or next, and that this … More Aesthetics of Hunger
I People are very critical of women who are being abused physically. Why do they not just leave … why do they then get into another abusive relationship … and on, and on. “They are sick, that is why!” shouts the chorus in glee. The chorus forgets to consider how many predators there are, and … More I Object
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