To: combjelly who wrote (262977 ) 12/2/2005 5:28:26 PM From: tejek Respond to I guess they learn this stuff early. Make it up, it doesn't have to even be vaguely connected to reality. And keep hammering the same theme, hopefully they will just give up. In this case, the student in question doesn't have even a vague idea how academia works, else he would have made a more credible threat. To imagine that a dean would mediate a dispute between a TA and a student who hadn't discussed an issue with the prof. and the department head first borders on fantasy. So no, they didn't think they would get caught. And if they did, they could wiggle out somehow. It is like DeLay and the redistricting in Texas, get the political appointees to kill the finding that the redistricting was illegal and approve it any way. The use the fact that the Justice Department approved of the redistricting to get the case thrown out when it was challenged in court. When you can make the rules and provide your own checks and balances, a lot of things become possible...
