The tenured professor says, “I’ll take a merlot.”
The non-tenured professor says, “I’ll have the same.”
The tenured professor says, “You can’t have the same. You don’t have tenure.”
Yes, I made that up. Yes, I realize it does not make any sense.
The Rest.
Of course, you don't need to explicitly keep non-tenured faculty from voting. You can just glower at them in a way as to suggest that maybe their tenure chances depend on how well they fall into line behind their chair/ their provost / their colleagues / the school philosophy / the school's prevailing standards / whatever. Who cares if they are the ones with the new ideas who will have to live with the consequences longer?
ReplyDeleteI have a (tenured) friends who uses this line. Just to be a dick. ;)
ReplyDeleteI can't have the same? Well, shit! Spike mine with Jack.
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