Special Report
Tenurabilities
Where else outside academia is one guaranteed employment for life? And where else, given such a guarantee, are the consequences of shabby behavior so muted?
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For another analogy -- perhaps better suited to the political junkies who visit this website -- imagine Ted Kennedy waddling from stage-left to a raised lectern at a news conference and denouncing the Bush administration for their amicus brief against racial preferences at the University of Michigan.
Ted Kennedy behind a lectern at age 70 -- that's the tenure system: a bloated, debauched, tired bundle of superannuated ideas slurred in a peculiar accent.
No analogy is perfect, though. The tenure system is quite a bit older than 70 and not about to fade away anytime soon.
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