Wednesday, February 11, 2009

SOME KIND OF COLLEAGUE — by Steve Nadis

For years, a friend of mind has put up with unfriendly and disrespectful treatment from a fellow physics professor at her university. My friend assumed that he was not comfortable with the idea of minority women in physics. But after a recent meeting, during which this same professor unfairly laid into a new faculty member who happened to be a white male, my friend realized that the offensive behavior she’s endured all this while may not have had anything to do with her color or gender. “He’s just a jerk!” she said.
Posted by Snake at 22:29:27
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2 Responses to “SOME KIND OF COLLEAGUE — by Steve Nadis”

  1. I think Nietzsche said something like, An evil taken to its logical extension is no longer an evil.

  2. Anonymous says:

    I like that, GD. I don’t know what it means, but I like it… –S.

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