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Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Professor Avatar - Christopher Conway, Inside Higher Ed
Imagine this: Every week of the semester a professor invites all of his students to his home. He greets them at the door wearing a red Hawaiian shirt, holding a lime margarita in his right hand and a wrinkled, fat cigar in the other. He herds them all into his house, presents them to his pets (Pinky the Cat and Jumbo the Dachsund), shows them his collection of 70’s era Star Wars action figures and walks them past rows of framed pictures of him fishing, doing karate and camping with his wife and Jumbo. He takes them to a filing cabinet and shows them the separata of his scholarly articles and news clippings about himself from the college paper, as well as articles by other scholars that contain footnotes citing him. Later, as they all sit around in his living room, he goes on and on about loving Roman Polanski movies and pontificates endlessly about TV programs and politics.
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