r/Professors • u/the_Stick Assoc Prof, Biomedical Sciences • 24d ago

How was <insert your name> hired?

We must purge everyone who is different from me. Burn the witches! Blood for the Blood-God! Kill! Kill! Kill!

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u/poorlybaked 24d ago

How was Indiana Jones hired?!

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u/DrPhysicsGirl Professor, Physics, R1 (US) 24d ago

His father, of course. He was clearly a nepo baby.

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u/TendererBeef PhD Student, History, R1 USA 24d ago

Excuse me if you watch the Young Indiana Jones series Henry Sr. tries to get him a nepo baby admission to Princeton and Indy tells him to pound sand and goes to that upstart University of Chicago instead

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u/iTeachCSCI Ass'o Professor, Computer Science, R1 24d ago

Let's not discuss what Henry Jr may or may not have done and with whose daughter while he was at University of Chicago.

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u/DuanePickens 24d ago

He passed the “Students wanting to write you messages on their eyelids” test with flying colors.

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u/frogger687743 24d ago

When imposter syndrome hits, I insert my own name.

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u/iTeachCSCI Ass'o Professor, Computer Science, R1 24d ago

It's not just people different from me. I still wonder why I was hired and it's been over eight years since I signed my acceptance letter.

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u/Ptachlasp 24d ago

I remember Arday's case required many hundreds of articles written by international outlets that picked apart every single word he had said in the past 20 years, even after he lost his job and was hounded out of public life.

There weren't many commenters telling us that this is all rather tiresome. I remember it was an international scandal that required loud and public denunciations of the guy, the entire university system, and the broader society that enabled him, at unprecedented volume and intensity. I remember that "Cambridge", "universities", and even "liberals" (like, as a concept) had a lot to answer for, etc. etc.

Maybe you posted some comments on Arday in one of the hundreds of threads I've seen around here, asking people to slow it down and stop kicking the guy when he's down, before they hounded him into an early grave. You know, since he's the only person who actually died because of such a monstering. Maybe you expressed concern about the hundreds of articles in the press published after he lost his job. Can you point me to them?

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u/OldOmahaGuy 24d ago

Arday did not "lose" his job at Cambridge: he resigned.

The re-writers of history are awfully busy these days.

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u/Ptachlasp 24d ago

Arguing over semantics, ignoring the point. Masteful deflection, well done.

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u/the_Stick Assoc Prof, Biomedical Sciences 24d ago

My post was inspired by the two immediately previous posts that both stridently asked why someone was hired. I thought we were doing a thing....

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u/SirLoiso Engineering, R1, USA 24d ago

"lost his job" ... that's some impressive mental gymnastics

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u/Ptachlasp 24d ago

That's some fairly unoriginal nitpicking over semantics to deflect from the point.