Catholic and Enjoying It!
Rutgers suspends prof whose greatness renders him unable to teach courses that are beneath him
“I don’t want to sound immodest, but I am one of the greatest social theorists in evolutionary biology alive, period,” Trivers told the campus newspaper. “I won the Crafoord Prize, which is considered the Nobel Prize for evolution, [worth] half a million dollars. I’m not an underperformer.”
In a fine act of academic gutlessness, the suspension is with pay. Some people call this “vacation”.
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