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Minerva University

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Dr. Jekyll & Prof. Hyde discuss pettiness in academia (as mentioned in the NYTimes)

<scene: Interior, faculty lounge at Utterson University>

Dr. Jekyll:  I say, Hyde, we are eating our own again.  Look at the third letter in this advice column.

Prof. Hyde:  Ha!  The sub-headline "Middle School Never Really Ends" sets the stage.

Dr. Jekyll:   And the statement "It is astonishing how many people deal with petty torments in the workplace. I shouldn’t be surprised given that I work in academia, a bastion of pettiness, but still …" offers a depressing tableau.  <sighs>

(Paywall) https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/02/business/roxane-gay-work-friend-advice.html

SCOTUS decision on affirmative action

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf

 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

_________________

Nos. 20–1199 and 21–707 _________________

STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC., PETITIONER

20–1199 v.

PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF

HARVARD COLLEGE

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT

STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS, INC., PETITIONER

21–707 v.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, ET AL.

ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

[June 29, 2023]

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Dr. Jekyll and Prof. Hyde share an essay, concluding, "The job never ends until you end it."

It’s Not How You Play the Game

By Jonathan Malesic  

Published: Spring 2023

“We should play Dungeons & Dragons,” my friend Anne proposed one night more than a decade ago, apropos of nothing. She brought it up at a gathering of friends who either worked at the college where I taught or were married to someone who did. Anne had never played before, and her idea might have lasted only as long as the last drink of the night if I hadn’t volunteered to run the game as its dungeon master.

I needed a hobby, something to keep me from taking it personally when my students plagiarized or didn’t do the reading for the required and resented theology courses I taught. I had played D&D in middle school during the 1980s; it seemed appealingly absurd to dust off my trio of rulebooks — the Player’s Handbook, the Dungeon Master’s Guide, and the Monster Manual — and play again as a fully fledged adult and tenure-track professor. I hoped D&D could offset my frustrated fixation on the live-action role-playing game we call work. . . .

Read the rest:

https://magazine.nd.edu/stories/its-not-how-you-play-the-game/

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