tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61325672011-04-21T15:58:06.989-07:00Gimme, gimme tenure, or I'm gonna fade away! C.noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6132567.post-1100703462888834862004-11-17T06:56:00.000-08:002004-11-17T06:57:42.886-08:00

Howard saysHyphenation is the trend nowadays if you want to get ahead in academia. This realization led me to undertake an intense personal voyage of discovery to uncover the roots my conformist parents had suppressed. Yes, I'm proud to stand up and call myself a Manx-American. My self-hating parents didn't even know where the Isle of Manx was. Undeterred, I consulted a map and after much

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Testing

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Current reading: Take My Wife... Please: The Memoirs of Louis AlthusserCurrent listening: Mongos Valadyosh: Mongos Mongos Ra! (late, great art-noise experimentalists from Tanu-Tuva who sang all their lyrics in Tocharian A)Current mood: smug.

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HOWARD'S JOURNALHey, I've only just noticed this post by Harry at Crooked Timber:This is a request for help. A student came to me with Will Durant’s list of 100 necessary books which he (the student) thinks needs updating. He, the student, wants to know what books the educated person should have read, that have been published since 1970. I am just about the worst person for him to come to, since

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HOWARD'S JOURNAL 2It was a nice sunny morning and I was sitting there contemplating the void when these sociology undergrads in No Logo logo tee-shirts come over with their old hippy activist professors in tow and say: "Hey, wanna come on our anti-war protest in New York on Saturday, Howard?" Well, my suspicions were immediately aroused. Because I've read Marcuse and I'm very wary about people

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HOWARD'S JOURNAL 1Howard has insisted that we reprint some entries from his undergraduate diary for the benefit of our readers and posterity. He feels that allowing selective access to this journal, which he modestly entitles "The Growth of a Critic's Mind", charting his intellectual development with all its peaks and troughs, its triumphs and its tragedies will be an immense boon to future

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HOWARD SAYS...This is cool:Logic and Rhetoric has gone the way of the way of the five-paragraph high school essay. It's time for entering students to start writing like they're at a university. And Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature Joseph Bizup, who created and is now the director of University Writing, is attempting to invigorate not just student term papers, but the

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I'd like to introduce my husband, Howard Dienstag. Howard is a frighteningly ambitious graduate student who prides himself on keeping his finger on the pulse of the latest trends in American academia. Howard will do literally anything to get tenure, including marrying me*. His posts will reflect these interests. (*Although this hasn't stopped him from suing me for sexual harrassment in order to

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Hello and welcome to the blog of Dinah Dienstag and her husband Howard. Dinah is Professor of Idiotarian Logic at the University of North-South-West Rhode Island Red. Howard isn't. Together they hope to add to the growing number of academic blogs on the Net. You can look forward to lots of posts about tenure and pension plans. They feel this is a sadly under-represented area in the academic

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