May 26, 2000
On Collegiality, College Style
It is a truth universally acknowledged -- or ought to be -- that if Rodney King had tried his famous "Can't we all just get along?" plea at a faculty meeting, he'd have been rebuked much more severely than he was by the L.A.P.D. -- at least in the minds of his colleagues.
Such a preposterous appeal, in light of the traditional customs of Bourdieu's "Homo academicus," would have been a far greater crime than the reported behavior of John Lammers (The Chronicle,
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