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...gentleman of color on the faculty at the Law School who is conducting a one-man strike until a lady of color is offered a professorship on the legal faculty seems to have omitted several considerations: 1. The lady should also be a Muslim (very few on the faculty). 2. She should be a lesbian. 3. She should also know something about law. Arthur J. Morgan...
Paralyzed by a degenerative nerve disease, Hawking is one of the world's most accomplished physicists, renowned for his breakthroughs in the study of gravitation and cosmology. Yet the man who holds the prestigious Cambridge University professorship once occupied by Sir Isaac Newton was overwhelmed by the sheer size and complexity of the machine before him. Joked Hawking: "This reminds me of one of those James Bond movies, where some mad scientist is plotting to take over the world...
...gave $1 million to the MIT to establish a "TDK" professorship" in material sciences. The latest grant comes as the Japanese government has been urging Japanese businesses to boost philanthropy in American communities, in part to ameliorate trade relations between the two countries...
Even when senior professors are sincerely interested in rewarding innovative scholarship, the tenure system still prevents the rejuvenation of faculty ranks. The prize at stake is a life-time professorship, so departments must be extraordinarily circumspect about whom they approve. An irrevocable tenured position is a huge risk to take when a young scholar's work may later become irrelevent, obsolete or discredited. (Occasionally, this happens after the person has already received tenure--one of the primary flaws of the tenure system.) The strong bias against offering tenure is understandable and unavoidable, but destructive nonetheless...
...Crimson's coverage of the Law School's offer of a visiting professorship to Gerald Torres was inadequate. Some information about his background and area of scholarship would have been of interest and quite appropriate in an article ostensibly about Torres. Instead, the article merely disclosed the facts that Torres is a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and that he is Hispanic. Torres's ethnicity may be newsworthy in light of the history of Hispanic legal scholarship at Harvard Law School. But to devote an article to his appointment without mentioning his scholarly work inevitably suggests that...