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Awkward?

The 2014 faculty recipient of the Chatfield College prize that goes to the instructor who most “exemplifies the academic spirit and values” of the college not only looks like this (which is fine; remember the Prof or Hobo? quiz), but just got arrested with molto drugs and guns.

Awkward?

No. Not awkward. Maybe it’s just marijuana for individual use.

But he does seem to be selling large quantities of it…

Are the guns awkward?

No. Not awkward. He’s in a dicey line of work and needs protection and they’re probably all legal. This is America.

Margaret Soltan, April 29, 2016 8:27AM
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8 Responses to “Awkward?”

  1. charlie Says:

    Maybe he knew tenure wasn’t in his future. A guy’s gotta do something….

  2. Jack/OH Says:

    Charlie, I’ll see you and raise you. My local Podunk Tech announced just today its police chief will be on paid administrative leave pending an “ongoing investigation into fiscal and operational matters and/or misuse of management authority”, according to the letter relieving him and quoted in the media today.

  3. charlie Says:

    Grifting campus cops, professors with arsenals. You can’t satirize something that’s already a parody. What’s next, on campus whorehouses, classes where no one meets, players on the payroll? Oh, wait….

  4. Jack/OH Says:

    Charlie, Chief Dawg getting canned blindsided me. He’d been protected by an influential patron who got him the job. Our local media is on top of this with public records requests. I’ll wait for the results of the investigation, but I don’t know yet who’s conducting it, or whether there’ll be a fight to get the results made public.

    I know to a certainty that several campus patrolmen and sergeants despised the man. Unjustified sting operations, dubiously motivated video surveillance, etc., kind of edging close to civilly actionable misconduct.

    The trouble with these damned patronage hires is that some of them feel compelled to go overboard trying to demonstrate they were merit hires.

  5. charlie Says:

    Jack/OH, if a civil action does occur and the settlements are significant, I wonder who will be the folks who ultimately be made to pay….

  6. Jack/OH Says:

    Podunk Tech carries some sort of legal liability insurance. Don’t know any details. There’ve been high six-figure settlements made by Podunk for past wrong-doing committed by the university.

    Remember comedian Tom Arnold’s line that America’s worst nightmare is white trash with money? I hate to get all sociocultural ‘n’ stuff, but imagine America’s worst nightmare as Euro- and trailer-park trash ascending to the leadership of America’s universities so they can work out some power- and ego-trip issues draped in nominal intellectual respectability.

    The Tuesday before Chief Dawg was sacked, the student paper published a letter by a prof who noted, among other things, that two mid-career profs who’d achieved good recognition, NEH grants, etc., were boogieing from Podunk Tech for flagship universities in the South. Podunk Tech doesn’t care.

  7. Jack/OH Says:

    Update: the director of purchasing at Podunk Tech was canned and escorted from the premises by campus police the same day Chief Dawg was given his walking papers.

    Those of us who still give a rat’s hoo-haw about our once well-regarded small-time college for crummy immigrant people who wanted to better themselves really need to demand an unbiased investigation.

  8. charlie Says:

    Jack, is the nickname of Podunk Tech by any chance The Penguins?

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