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by Cotati on Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 02:56:58 PM PDT

Our resident radical pointed out that we need more diversity among our faculty. This started another predictable argument, with our lone McCain supporter backing the department away from any real affirmative action. Maybe when he retires we can really change things up.
Change things up in what way? What sort of affirmative action? And what does someone supporting McCain or any other candidate have to do with hiring for math faculty??! Is someone trying to apply some sort of litmus test? God, I was so hoping that politics would not be injected into math academia. I'm not referring to the ``office politics'' that you find within a department, as you would find in any organization. I'm talking about government politics tainting academic relations within math community. So far in my grad school experience, I have found the math community to fairly free of such crap; people are pretty tolerant. Please tell me that this is not atypical!


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