By Laurie Henry Read the interview. During class meetings, he sits beside the tape recorder while he and the students listen to the day's lesson. Students take notes because they will be examined on this material. This instructor is the darling of the college administration because great numbers of students can be enrolled in his courses. If not lazy, they're incompetent or unscrupulous, ready to embrace any trend.
Professors are personally unscrupulous too.
Henry Mulcahy, an English instructor in The Groves of Academe , bullies his students into free babysitting. Some of the scariest stories I heard from students were about teachers coming on to them. One guy, after finding out that one of his students was an exotic dancer, became a regular at her club and a frequent caller to her home. The black middle class has quadrupled since the 1960s, yet a third of African-Americans are worse off now than in 1968. True, this contradiction seems absurd, but the adjunct readily understands that life teems with contradictions.