… Les UDs will be able to spend three weeks in their little house in the New York mountains. UD‘s excited about this, because the setting is peaceful and beautiful during the day, and breathtaking at night, with the massive summer canopy overhead.
There are long country walks, operas at Glimmerglass, visits to Woodstock, and UD‘s traditional birthday dinner at the Bear Cafe…
It’s all very exciting. But if you live there year-round, I suspect life can get dull.
Perhaps this explains the propensity of professors in that region to have marijuana businesses. Not only does getting high alleviate boredom (I’ve heard), but running the enterprise is probably fun and interesting.
Just a couple of days ago a SUNY Cobleskill professor was arrested; and today, it’s a guy who teaches marketing at SUNY Albany.
Have you been following that study featured in the New York Times which argues that professors are almost all from the political left because of job “typecasting”?
The academic profession “has acquired such a strong reputation for liberalism and secularism that over the last 35 years few politically or religiously conservative students, but many liberal and secular ones, have formed the aspiration to become professors,” [the study’s authors] write in the paper, “Why Are Professors Liberal?” That is especially true of their own field, sociology, which has become associated with “the study of race, class and gender inequality — a set of concerns especially important to liberals.”
For sure these SUNY guys are doing their bit to tighten our typecasting. Think of it this way: If you can’t imagine starting a marijuana growing business at home, you’re probably not cut out to be a professor.
January 20th, 2010 at 8:03AM
Is marijuana growing really all that different from whoring [legal] drugs?
January 20th, 2010 at 12:02PM
Actually, these guys seem a bit too entrepreneurial to be satisfied with the academic life.
January 20th, 2010 at 1:31PM
So apparently their chief Cobleskill is to Cobblejoints?
January 20th, 2010 at 1:42PM
Crimson05er: LOL.