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Do you know what they call
a head of masturbating cattle?
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Beef stroganoff.
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Strange thing. l almost got fired
for telling that silly little joke.
:38:29
Maybe it would've been best.
:38:32
What do you mean?
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l mean, it 's obvious
you don't fit in there.
:38:40
Well, fitting in
has never been easy for me.
:38:45
That 's why l left England.
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American colleges, when l first
arrived, were free and loose.
:38:52
Refuges for intellectualism
and radical thinking.
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Now, they're just part
of the big corporate economy...
:38:58
like a department store.
:39:00
The administrators
are like store managers...
:39:04
the professors are the clerks...
:39:06
and the students
are the almighty customers.
:39:09
Why do you let everyone
push you around?
:39:13
Who?
:39:15
Everyone. The students, faculty...
Especially the students.
:39:21
Like l said,
the students are the customers...
:39:23
and the customers are always right.
:39:27
Do you know
when l gave my last ''fail''?
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lt was before your time, nearly 7
years ago, a girl called Nora Vallum.
:39:37
Well, Nora Vallum
hardly ever came to class...
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she never did homework,
did a miserable exam...
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and she was argumentative
in my conference with her.
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l had no hesitation in failing her.
:39:50
Now, she complained
to Janet Vanderpour...
:39:53
that the reason she didn't come
to class was to protest the fact...
:39:56
that l only taught
one woman writer...
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in my Renaissance fiction seminar,
that l was sexist.