Harvard Ethics: An Oxymoron

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This dude/dudette seems to know what Harvard is like:

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"Daily Letters | 3 Mar, 2006

Cool!

This discussion reminds me of sitting in one of Witzel's Vedic Sanskrit classes. You know, the one where, on Feb.10, seven "Rating" messages appeared miraculously at the site "Rate-a-Prof" with identical sycophantic writing styles clearly stamped "Steven Alan Farmer". Minutes before Professor Witzel, equally coincidentally, happened to check the same website - to his great delight, and accepted without question, he being a star linguist and experienced professor and all.

This is JUST like Witzel's class at Harvard. There's "Old Mac" over there, spitting on the floor and declaring from time to time that he's interested in "academic Screw-tinny", there's NitWits over there farting loudly, there's Sandhu chattering away to himself, and then there are these serious-looking types like Chitra who think this is actually a university classroom, not a zoo.

And of course there's Witzel droning on in a mixture of Sanskrit, Latin and German, mostly about how great his 8 books are, according to all 3 Indologists who are the only people to have tried to read them. And how bad Hindutva is.

And there's a picture of a Baboon posted prominently on the right side of the board, and Witzel referring to her as "India's Most Famous Historian".

NOW I remember. This is what the Harvard Crimson reported in 1995, when the students went on strike in the department and stuffed Witzel's course notes down the Faculty Latrine, stopping it up, and forcing Witzel and his cohorts to walk all the way to the School of Divinity to "go".

ARI SAJA
LONG BEACH, CA   UNITED STATES"

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