It goes completely above my cap. First there was a fight about having one professor of economics for two faculties, and the day it was decided the two faculties should become one, they decided to appoint two professors, one at the School of False Dynamics and the other at the Institute of Phony Ambitions.
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Logic is a rare commodity. It started when the Chairman of the University said that the DUT had no talent, all our professors were nobodies, so we should import some toptalent, money no problem. We could no longer be the bunch of irreverent old farts we apparently are: a new impulse was needed. A language switch seemed a simple solution. And there would be a clustering and the result would be the Delft School of Management. If you ask somebody in Limburg: ,,It is rich and it stinks”, the answer is DSM. (We would not mind being rich, though).
We, the rank and file, see things others. We want a nice capable professor who can inspire his staff and his students, not a prima donna with dollar signs in his eyes who is busy being brilliant abroad and lets his subordinates do the daily chores. It is hard to imagine why toptalent wants to come to Delft except for the money and that is the worst of reasons. You get people who think that in another country it will take longer to see that they have no talent.
The idea that top of the bill economists would read the NRC, and subsequently be able to decipher our english, is rather absurd. It is like placing an add in the Groenland Herald inviting eskimo’s to apply for a chair in airconditioning techniques in Upper-Volta. The perfectly capable talent we have in Holland will see straight through this baked air and know better than to apply to these chairs. So in the end we will have either the wrong people or no people at all, just as it was in the past.
When I ran this piece through the spell checker, it flashed NO WORD PERFECT! And then the stream went out and all became black. Maybe we should go back to Dutch and put a stop to False Dynamics and Phony Ambitions. Just speak your moerstaal, create a pleasant working atmosphere and the dynamics will come fromself.
It goes completely above my cap. First there was a fight about having one professor of economics for two faculties, and the day it was decided the two faculties should become one, they decided to appoint two professors, one at the School of False Dynamics and the other at the Institute of Phony Ambitions.
Logic is a rare commodity. It started when the Chairman of the University said that the DUT had no talent, all our professors were nobodies, so we should import some toptalent, money no problem. We could no longer be the bunch of irreverent old farts we apparently are: a new impulse was needed. A language switch seemed a simple solution. And there would be a clustering and the result would be the Delft School of Management. If you ask somebody in Limburg: ,,It is rich and it stinks”, the answer is DSM. (We would not mind being rich, though).
We, the rank and file, see things others. We want a nice capable professor who can inspire his staff and his students, not a prima donna with dollar signs in his eyes who is busy being brilliant abroad and lets his subordinates do the daily chores. It is hard to imagine why toptalent wants to come to Delft except for the money and that is the worst of reasons. You get people who think that in another country it will take longer to see that they have no talent.
The idea that top of the bill economists would read the NRC, and subsequently be able to decipher our english, is rather absurd. It is like placing an add in the Groenland Herald inviting eskimo’s to apply for a chair in airconditioning techniques in Upper-Volta. The perfectly capable talent we have in Holland will see straight through this baked air and know better than to apply to these chairs. So in the end we will have either the wrong people or no people at all, just as it was in the past.
When I ran this piece through the spell checker, it flashed NO WORD PERFECT! And then the stream went out and all became black. Maybe we should go back to Dutch and put a stop to False Dynamics and Phony Ambitions. Just speak your moerstaal, create a pleasant working atmosphere and the dynamics will come fromself.
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