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Old 02-16-2005, 10:14 AM   #50 (permalink)
Lebell
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Originally Posted by roachboy
lebel: geez. and here i thought it was fairly straightforward.

live and learn.

but tell me if your "accountability" argument concerning ward churchill does not reduce to an opposition to tenure. which would be a priori necessary for the kind of "monitoring" you seem to support for professors who teach at public universities--and therefore on the sacrosanct "taxpayers dime"

To this specific question (and this one only), I don't deny it in the least.

To me the whole idea of "tenure" goes against accountability.

In no other business or industry do I know of the idea that you are entitled to your job just because you've been there x number of years.
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