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In reply to the discussion: What have we become? Econ professor violently arrested at Emory [View all]Prairie Gates
(1,138 posts)42. I didn't make a single comment about her qualifications at all
If you think this position wasn't made for her as part of the recruitment of her husband, announced with great fanfare, you don't know anything about academic hiring. Again, they don't just magically have positions hanging around in economic history at the same time - Lord it's a miracle! - that they're putting together a recruitment package for a Dean of Admissions, yanked out of another (competitor peer) elite institution. It strains credulity.
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I sure did and four other classmates came forward after that with various other offers he'd proposed.
littlemissmartypants
Apr 26
#21
THANK YOU. Good gawd in this day & age to assume the female spouse to not be eminently qualified
hlthe2b
Apr 26
#34
You insinuation the spouse was hired only to recruit the favored candidate and not because they too
hlthe2b
Apr 26
#41
Between the poorly trained idiot cops and the "I am a professor of economics"
Prairie Gates
Apr 25
#11
Okay, you just proved the point some of us made about your "spousal hire" snark by this post
obamanut2012
Apr 26
#79
I was just about to post about these horrible events--Here are a few videos.........
riversedge
Apr 26
#28
That man was emphatically NOT neutralizing a threat. He was pleasuring himself with brutality.
David__77
Apr 26
#46
She was attempting to interfere with the arrest of the antisemite on the ground.
BannonsLiver
Apr 26
#56
They may understand that "human" includes people in Gaza and West Bank and East Jerusalem.
David__77
Apr 26
#76
That buys into the framing that anyone who protests against Israel's action is anti-Semitic . . .
markpkessinger
Apr 27
#88