Originally Posted by
Eliot
I started using that tag line when I was an assistant professor of mathematics at Ohio University in about 1987 (I think that's about when we started using email). The department was systemically corrupt and I wanted to call it out, while also expressing futility. For example, in my first year I caught the senior professor in my area -- who was instrumental in getting me hired there -- cheating on behalf of one of his Ph.D. students by feeding his student the questions ahead of time that were on the written preliminary exam. I called out one thing after another for 15 years until they bought out my tenure in 1998. Fortunately that got me to UC Santa Barbara.
The tag line just stuck -- it seems just as appropriate in the context of casinos and the AP world as it did long ago in that pathetic department.
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