From: George Slone
Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2022 8:00 AM
To: jeffrey.sachs@acadiau.ca <jeffrey.sachs@acadiau.ca>
Subject: Your FIRE article
To Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Politics, Acadia University:
Well, I spent most of my working life as a failed academic… and I’d have it no other way. In each institution employing me, I spoke rude truth openly. And of course each institution eliminated me for doing so. FIRE never did help me in my diverse higher ed battles. Hell, I even battle way back when with its founder.
In any case, your FIRE criticism, “Everyone’s Wrong About FIRE," was interesting and perhaps unusual too. Keep in mind that the Chronicle of Higher Education is itself an organization that censors unwanted opinions. It certainly will NOT publish anything I send it. Yes, I have been openly critical of its editors.
Anyhow, I would add to your FIRE critique several thoughts.
If a college has a green light FIRE designation, that is essentially de jura. The de facto reality might of course be quite different. Another FIRE problem is that the organization does not address criticism with its regard. It certainly has not addressed my criticisms (see attached cartoons, for example).
For your chuckle, I attach my CM. Imagine if I’d sent it to your university, for example. The fundamental problem with academics is quite simple: Career vs. Truth.
Anyhow, I enjoyed visiting Grand Pre on several different occasions and visit NS several times per year on my way to NL.
Au plaisir,
G. Tod Slone (PhD—Université de Nantes, FR), aka P. Maudit, Founding Editor (1998)
The American Dissident, a 501c3 Nonprofit Journal of Literature, Democracy, and Dissidence
www.theamericandissident.org
wwwtheamericandissidentorg.blogspot.com
217 Commerce Rd.
Barnstable, MA 02630
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From: George Slone
Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2022 8:00 AM
To: jeffrey.sachs@acadiau.ca <jeffrey.sachs@acadiau.ca>
Subject: Your FIRE article
To Jeffrey Sachs, Professor of Politics, Acadia University:
Well, I spent most of my working life as a failed academic… and I’d have it no other way. In each institution employing me, I spoke rude truth openly. And of course each institution eliminated me for doing so. FIRE never did help me in my diverse higher ed battles. Hell, I even battle way back when with its founder.
In any case, your FIRE criticism, “Everyone’s Wrong About FIRE," was interesting and perhaps unusual too. Keep in mind that the Chronicle of Higher Education is itself an organization that censors unwanted opinions. It certainly will NOT publish anything I send it. Yes, I have been openly critical of its editors.
Anyhow, I would add to your FIRE critique several thoughts.
If a college has a green light FIRE designation, that is essentially de jura. The de facto reality might of course be quite different. Another FIRE problem is that the organization does not address criticism with its regard. It certainly has not addressed my criticisms (see attached cartoons, for example).
For your chuckle, I attach my CM. Imagine if I’d sent it to your university, for example. The fundamental problem with academics is quite simple: Career vs. Truth.
Anyhow, I enjoyed visiting Grand Pre on several different occasions and visit NS several times per year on my way to NL.
Au plaisir,
G. Tod Slone (PhD—Université de Nantes, FR), aka P. Maudit, Founding Editor (1998)
The American Dissident, a 501c3 Nonprofit Journal of Literature, Democracy, and Dissidence
www.theamericandissident.org
wwwtheamericandissidentorg.blogspot.com
217 Commerce Rd.
Barnstable, MA 02630
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