Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem. | |
Graduating seniors, parents and friends... Let me begin by reassuring you that my remarks today will stand up to the most stringent requirements of the new appropriateness. The intra-college sensitivity advisory committee has vetted the text of even trace amounts of subconscious racism, sexism and classism. Moreover, a faculty panel of deconstructionists have reconfigured the rhetorical components within a post-structuralist framework, so as to expunge any offensive elements of western rationalism and linear logic. Finally, all references flowing from a white, male, eurocentric perspective have been eliminated, as have any other ruminations deemed denigrating to the political consensus of the moment. Thank you and good luck. -- Doonesbury, the University Chancellor's graduation speech. | |
QOTD: "A university faculty is 500 egotists with a common parking problem." | |
Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art. | |
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. -- John Ciardi | |
You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. -- Alfred Kahn | |
College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity. -- H. L. Mencken | |
Finally, Zippy drives his 1958 RAMBLER METROPOLITAN into the faculty dining room. |