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Are They Really Going to Stay in the Senate?

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The Rise and Fall of the Academic Culture

In academia, you have this gerontocracy professors who are in there for the late 50s to their late 80s. They're all teaching garbage nonsense that they learned when they were graduate students from the 80s to the mid 90s. So because for an analogy and because they have the jobs, all their students are forced out of academia into human resource departments or diversity consulting. If they were smokers, their students would be the professors. We would have to worry about it. And that's a really good job for a smoker because you can just wander around the quad outside smoking cigarettes.

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