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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]David Foster Wallace preferred teaching at Illinois State University to Pomona, where he went after being offered an endowed faculty Chair [/quote]

:roll: What do you expect them to say? "These kids are lazy underachievers, very few actually read the assigned material, plagiarism is rampant, and lectures are like talking to a wall."  :roll: [/quote]

Well he made the comment after he left the "directional" university and while held an endowed professorship at a selective Liberal Arts college, so I'm not sure what his incentive would have been to celebrate his previous students over his current ones other than it was probably true [/quote]

I'm not sure his issues with Pomona were entirely with the students. I know someone who was a student worker in the English department when he was there. She was the one who was tasked with reaching out to him for scheduling events. He expressed deep frustration over the number of public events he was expected to attend and speak at. The demands on his time were quite extensive. [/quote]

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