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February 24, 2006

Role Models

Briefly noted --

Academic über-blogger Michael Bérubé points our attention to a charming poll on David Horowitz' Front Page Magazine site -- "Who is the Worst Academic?"

Horowitz is, of course, the leading figure in the so-called "Academic Bill of Rights" movement, which aims to purge liberalism from college campuses (or at least to fairly and accurately balance said liberalism with equal doses of conservatism). So you know he's not asking which professor on the list puts in the least prep time before class.

No, this list comes from his new book, The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Unfortunately, Horowitz doesn't bother to rank the threats, so we have no way of knowing which is the worst.

Well, now the Internets can take care of that hard work. You -- yes you! -- can now vote for whomever you think is the worst (i.e., the "most dangerous") professor in America. Bérubé encourages us all to vote for him:

Right now I’m leading Eve Sedgwick by the slimmest of margins, and as you know, I have no Diebold apparatus to fall back upon. But don’t worry about ballot-stuffing! This is FrontPage.com, people—a website whose unofficial (and yet universally acknowledged) motto is “Sloppiness R Us.” There are no limits, no limits at all, on the number of votes you can cast from one IP address. So stop by FrontPage today, and vote for me as America’s Worst Professor. I thank you, and all that is good and holy thanks you.

But on a tragic note, for some reason yours truly has been thoughtlessly left off the list. I'm crushed. I really am. But one day I will be on that list. One day I will rule the list as the David Horowitz-crowned "Worst Professor in America." And I will wear the crown (or tiara, whichever), with pride.

An Assistant Professor can dream, can't he?

Posted by reparent at February 24, 2006 1:23 PM

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Posted by: coeurlion at February 24, 2006 2:04 PM