Greta Munger is now a full professor. I think that means she is required to wear the black robes and funny hat full time now.
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The judge who has begun wearing a judicial robe with the Ten Commandments stitched into it is finding support in his own home town of Andalusia, where his district court is found.
Marci Hamilton has an excellent column reviewing the situation with Ashley McKathan, Alabama's latest Robin to Roy Moore's Batman.
Someone on Volokh noticed that Underneath Their Robes, the amusing blog I mentioned yesterday, is now gone and the entire site is password protected. I suspect that his boss at the U.S. Attorney's Office didn't like the idea of him dishing about judges they appear in front of.
Whenever someone becomes a full professor, I like to point out that it begs the question, "full of what?"
I have also observed that such individuals are, in fact, not quite full yet and have taken several of them to nearby pubs to remedy that deficiency.
That's not what 'begs the question' means.
That depends on whether you go by the strict, traditional, academic definition or by modern usage. It's okay to have a preference, but if you insist that the former is the only meaning, people might describe you as elitist.
No, not even full professors look funny all the time (although my advisor was from a UK university whose robes were some shade of violet, and even sometimes was funny enough).
From William Golding's essay "Crosses" in THE HOT GATES, 1966:
...he goes on a while longer, about commencement rituals - all accurate anthropology of the academic subculture. The man could write.
Academics elitist? Never! They really are better then everyone else.
Except rich people and models.
So when will PZ be a full professor?
When ranting blogs count as peer reviewed publications!
Bahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I hear of People getting tenure and becoming full profs, I always remember this quote from Dan Dennett:
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain any more so it eats it. It's rather like getting tenure."
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--Simon
As someone who has drifted in and out of academe, I have to say that I haven't felt that I was substantially better while I've been an academic. Certainly not better paid anyway. :-)
I once asked a visiting lecturer what it was that professors were allowed to profess. The suggestion was "opinions", but I think that's self-defeating. :)