Only politicians and some preachers are crueler and more petty than academics. Noel Polk, of all people, the Welty and Faulkner scholar, was driven out of Hattiesburg. So he landed on his feet: so, still, what happened to him is wrong.
Surviving
in the Academic Jungle--
A note from Noel in 2007:
I fought the good fight against a worthy
adversary at USM, the occasion for my removal to MSU . . . Fighting at USM took
it out of me---not the starch, I believe, but just some level of constant
indignation that the new pres there caused so much havoc. Not a big deal, and I
may feel different tomorrow.
Take keer, pal.
Only politicians as a class are crueler and
more petty than academics. Noel Polk, of all people, the Welty and Faulkner
scholar, driven out of Hattiesburg. So he landed on his feet: so, still, what happened to him
is wrong.
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