UD‘s own University of Chicago seems to have decided that Fabrice Tourre — America’s current poster boy for defrauding investors and failing to get away with it — will not after all teach its undergraduates how money works. The U of C has clearly been hemming and hawing about this decision for some time, and UD can imagine how that went.
Well, he’s a bright articulate young man with many years of malfeasance in front of him… Yes, and he’s currently unemployed and needs a job and we can provide one… But on the other hand what if all his students cheat and then explain to the administration that he cheats so why can’t they… Plus can’t you already see the Sunday New York Times Magazine feature Dropping in On Fabulous Fabrice’s University of Chicago Seminar…
March 5th, 2014 at 5:14PM
But Chicago admitted the guy to their PhD program, and the degree requirements include teaching. So he’s gotta teach or TA courses at some point. What’s he supposed to do?
March 5th, 2014 at 6:03PM
As I understand it, they’re suspending that rule for him, and just letting him take graduate seminars.
March 8th, 2014 at 12:14PM
Chicago shouldn’t do that. It’s like the time Yale let a student write an obviously unpublishable English dissertation, when publication was a requirement. Maybe Tourre will wind up at Maharishi International U., too.