It's a prank. There's no such article on the Chronicle site if you click through, nor any such professor at the college indicated, nor, perhaps, any such department at the college indicated.
Ah, I clicked through to the Chronicle site, but I don't have a subscription. Glad I didn't rant.
Your institution doesn't provide access?
Labs' "institution" provided me plenty of access.
Yes, Apo did a fine job managing my endowment.
It probably does, Ben; I just never feel the urge to read the chronicle.
Click on the author's link to his rate my professors page too.
Arkansas Northeastern exists but has no Classics department, only a school of Communications and Humanities whose faculty apparently has no classicists, let alone one named Martin Bell. There's probably a good joke behind the name.
There is no Martin Bell at Arkansas Northeastern, but he is rated on that colleges RMP site. Just go to the college and he's listed there as if he was real. Months old ratings are there, and have been there for a very long time.
To do even a minor April Fool's deal you have to do the legwork. The mail at RYS today has been overwhelmingly supportive. We actually feel bad we've duped so many loyal readers.
Our site is so well supported by so many, but nearly everyone has taken it in good fun.
Best,
RYS
Hey who closed comments on the Blank thread?
RYS, that RMP page is hilarious. Nice work. (I left a rating.)
I just never feel the urge to read the chronicle.
Funny that.
B, don't tell me you don't understand my aversion. some of the news is interesting, but a lot of their cutesy stuff is terrible.
"Funny that" sounds like I'm saying I don't understand your aversion? Quite the contrary. I don't read them either.
Bitch PhD is always sarcastic, except when she's not.
So my question is, am I the last person in the world to discover the existence of this video?
I had never seen it. Holy fuck. "Gorgeous mulatto bodies"? "After watching the mulatto shake it..."
Unbelievable that he was able to have a political career despite this kind of shit.
Have you gotten to the bit with the carrot yet?
I hadn't seen it. Wow, those dancers sure knew how to readjust his hands. His seduction banter reminds me of some of the skeezier European yuppies I've met.
Damn, that was horrible to watch. All those women seemed really offended by him, too, even the dancers, who all managed about five seconds of his humping before sliding away.
By the second or third dancer he is actually humping them, too.
Yes I did see the bit with the carrot. That man is so grotesque.
Unbelievable that he was able to have a political career despite this kind of shit.
It's the party of family values, baby.
Soon to have Rudy Giuliani as their standard bearer.
Arnold's in a category of his own, though. He is distilled skeeze.
I think the problem is that he's not: there is some significant portion of men around his age believed at the time that such was appropriate behavior. God willing, they're embarrassed and ashamed, now. But they--and probably the women they knew--remember.
I have a great idea. I think we should put that guy in charge of the world's sixth largest economy. Who's with me?
I know two Austrian aristo-technocratic types whose tendencies to behave exactly like that have been methodically crushed by NYC women; it's taken years, though.
Arnold puzzles me. I think he's 1/3 serious about wanting to be, well, serious. But he's also at least 1/3 inveterate ham. The middle third is anyone's guess.
28: ...what Sterne calls the "argumentum tripodium."
The middle third is anyone's guess.
Obviously the middle third is THE AAASSS.
California is the world's eighth largest economy, actually.
I said we should put him in charge of the sixth largest.
Resorting to w-lfs-n-isms, ogged?
To be fair, Arnold in charge of France would be much better than Arnold in charge of California.
"My first taste of Carnival came at the night club Oboe Oboe."
The fuck to oboe.
34: The French might not agree with you.
I'm sorry, but no way is California's economy larger than China's.
I just put that in to make it hard.
OT: Reid is co-sponsoring Feingold's Iraq-war amendment.
People have been asking what the Democrats will do when Bush vetoes the spending bill. This is the answer. For once the Democrats are ahead of the game, and not fretting and worrying about what Bush is going to do. You'd suspect that Reid has talked to the key fence-sitters and is now confident of support.
I had an argument about this issue 25-30 year ago. The free-marketer I was talking to was adamant that it was no big deal. (He was going into medicine, too). He'd just finished an econ class where the teacher had "rationally" discussed the issue, and my friend was pumped for deregulation.
Are y'all now on board with Nancy Pelosi being a kick-ass house leader?
Good.