A tenured professor tells the truth about academia on his way out the door

Colleges & Universities Penn State
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<p>“While I have been fortunate in my set of departmental colleagues at Penn State, the institution as a whole is phenomenally weird, following a North Korean governance model without the transparency … One of the more obnoxious t-shirts available on the commercial strip adjacent to campus … says: ‘State College: a drinking town with a football problem.’”</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/a_tenured_professor_tells_the_truth_about_academia_on_his_way_out_the_door.html[/url]”>http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/08/a_tenured_professor_tells_the_truth_about_academia_on_his_way_out_the_door.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I read this, and the first thing that came to mind is “This sounds like it was written from a cranky old man” - And it seems like it was.</p>

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<p>He is quite funny!</p>

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<p>How is this not a link to a personal blog, and therefore not within CC guidelines? The guy doesn’t even use his name? (edit…Okay, I found his name. He’s been at Penn State since…2010)</p>

<p>I am offended, as always, by the implication that Sandusky perpetrated his crimes here due to the town’s tolerance of pedophiles, as if we are all complicit. It misses entirely the moral of the whole tragic crime, which is that child abuse can and does take place everywhere, most especially where people are “sure” it couldn’t because their town is different and superior. </p>

<p>The t shirt slogan is hardly unique to Penn State, new, or the only t shirt available in town.</p>

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<p>why give this guy press?</p>

<p>clearly an ax to grind from someone who spent a short three years at PSU. I think we all know there’s more to his story that he’s not revealing</p>