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...time-and labor-intensive projects, to work with colleagues in universities across the world and, sometimes, simply to revitalize themselves after years of service. While professors have a duty to pass on their knowledge to undergraduates, at a research university they are also expected to create original scholarship and publish prodigiously. These duties need not be mutually exclusive, and with proper planning, departments should be able to accommodate both professors and students...
...responsibility of professors. Academia is perhaps the only field of employment where, after reaching a certain level of achievement, one receives total job security for the rest of one’s life. Tenured professors are, in a sense, on the honor system. They do not have to publish a single book—indeed, they don’t even have to publish a single article—to keep their jobs. Summers, West and every other tenured professor in this and all universities can do whatever they want with their time; they will retain their positions regardless...
...tenure system, of course, was created in order to foster academic freedom—in order to allow professors to publish (as West has done in the past) bold and original scholarship without worrying whether it will be immediately accepted. The system was not created so that professors with tenure would have free license to effectively switch careers and produce things other than scholarship, be they music, drawings or lawn-chairs. West’s job—the one that Harvard hired him for and pays him a large salary to perform—is to write scholarly books...
...office was with a team of former police detectives whose mission was to root out cheats, not to process legitimate claims. When Rafi Pinto took over the department six years ago, his predecessor told him, "Your job is to save the state's money." Only in 1997 did Pinto publish details of survivors' entitlements that had been on the books since the 1950s. "There was a problem," he says. "People really didn't know what they were due." The number of survivors making claims quadrupled...
...Elijah told us that he really hates answering questions, so we thought we’d prank him,” said Benjamin F. Dougan, incoming president of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...