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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clifford Ando is essential reading on the issues at the U of C: https://chicagomaroon.com/40932/viewpoints/op-ed/west-virginia-chicago-is-happening-to-you-the-fight-for-the-modern-university/

It's been badly mismanaged for a while now. As an alumnus, I'm incredibly disappointed. It was a special place for me.[/quote]

While I agree that Prof Ando's articles are interesting, there is something odd about the torrential animosity he displays towards his employer. I mean...no one is forcing you to teach there. If U Chicago is the Devil, go get another job?[/quote]

Actually, the article is analytical and informative in the tone of an academic research article[/quote]

I originally posted the link and I agree. It's not animosity, he just cares about the university and its mission and wants to see it well run. That's not even uncommon for people at badly run for profit companies. It's even less odd at an institution that, reasonably I think, commands more loyalty than most companies. [/quote]

Read his other stuff and get back to me. It's almost pathological.[/quote]

Is Professor Ando more known for these articles than he is for his own research?[/quote]
He’s a very well regarded classicist, probably one of the most well known in the field.[/quote]

Unfortunately for him and, frankly, everyone in the field classicists become known for the other things they do in life. Like becoming politicians or even movie actors. Ando surely understands this and maybe that is why he expends so much energy on this mole hill? Just think about it. Aristotle is not remembered because of missives against Democrats. That is footnote sh*t. To me it feels like the professor has given up and,  out of frustration with himself, lashing out.[/quote]

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