Is Doug Chambers leaving? - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Jan 31, 2005

Is Doug Chambers leaving?

Date: Jan 31, 2005

I certainly hope so! He is a real jerk with left hand drop!

Date: Jan 31, 2005

What happened, WASP? Did your 099 coaching class get out early?

Date: Jan 31, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: WASP
"I certainly hope so! He is a real jerk with left hand drop!"

Your ignorance and repressed homosexual urges are showing, WASP.

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Date: Jan 31, 2005

Thanks, O Henry!

BAM!

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Date: Jan 31, 2005

Dr. Chambers was offered an oppurtunity to apply at Brown for a position about the same time his was denied tenure by the dean. I do not know however if he has recieved position or not.

Date: Jan 31, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: root cause
"I just heard this today. Brown University is what i heard."

Too bad he has to move down to a lesser university.

I put in the grin because I doubt if WASP knows that was a joke.

Date: Jan 31, 2005

~Edit~ oppurtunity = opportunity

Date: Jan 31, 2005

Don't you just know Professor Chambers is in agony over having to choose between Brown and USM?? Assuming he gets the offer, and for his sake we hope he does. But doesn't this prove SFT's assertion that when good people flee, er, leave USM it's another opportunity to show the rest of the academic world how great we are. It's like he's a missionary or something ----

That sad part is that WASP and idots like him don't have a clue about Brown or any of the other good schools which are steadily draining USM of its best teachers.

Date: Jan 31, 2005

It seems if Doug was denied tenure at USM, Brown was his only option. Can you imagine, getting turned down at a Tier 4.5 (and falling) and then offered by an elite university?

Can you say "lawsuit" if he wants it?

Date: Jan 31, 2005

I don't want to stray too far off thread, but I am curious about the acronym "WASP." The most common meaning is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Were there ever any other color Anglo-Saxons, irrespective of religion?

Maybe our guest poster is a Sexy Pagan: http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?acronym=WASP

Date: Jan 31, 2005

When Yale offered me a campus visit, I knew that the USM experience only hurts when they sucker punch you. It's taken some years but I'm now teaching at a better Tiered school. Didn't take Yale up on the visit - I was offered a sweet deal at a pretty great university when they heard about the Yale visit. Doug, you deserve the best - and it isn't where you are now.

Date: Jan 31, 2005

Prof. Chambers is a first-rate historian. He will get a postition at a first rate university, and will look back at his tenure troubles at USM as the best thing ever to happen to his career.

Date: Jan 31, 2005

Many, many USM faculty members are looking for a new position. Their interests are best served if their friends and colleagues don't discuss the specifics of those searches in a public forum until the faculty member has accepted an offer on paper to avoid some less than honorable person making an effort to sabotage the job search process.

Date: Jan 31, 2005

quote:
Originally posted by: Curmudgeon
"Many, many USM faculty members are looking for a new position. Their interests are best served if their friends and colleagues don't discuss the specifics of those searches in a public forum until the faculty member has accepted an offer on paper to avoid some less than honorable person making an effort to sabotage the job search process."

Very wise advice.

Date: Feb 1, 2005

I agree, however, Dr. Chambers himself told his His. 310 class last semester (all 50 students) what was taking place. He does not seem to concerned about being sabatoged or he would not have announced what was transpiring to an undergrad class. He summed up the whole situation by saying that when one door closes another one opens. I wish him the best of luck.