Toasting the end of a 15-year raunch of a train wreck? A triumphant denouement? Says a lot about this department. Its sovereignty ending ignominiously, perhaps fittingly, and that’s cause for celebration?
Nevertheless, swilling champagne to memorialize some of the signature moments of that legacy should include Hit Me, Hit Me, that memorable Gestapo-like summoning of Hunter 5-0 to remove a staff member from a department meeting (and the subsequent sacking of the best IT service for undergraduate journalism and media students at CUNY).
Toasts should include, of course, The Four Barnacles of the Apocalypse, The Coach Scandal, Feed Those Parking Meters Or Else and the crème de la crème, the Clemente Soto Vélez disgrace (Joelle says two students have recanted their testimony). And, of course, the other issues, the percolated and the percolating, that will have to be addressed because they’re too sordid to conceal.
[Not in the original email sent to Colleagues.]
The stroll down memory lane should include champagne invitations to Brendan Cruz and George Lawson, et. al. More about them later.
Also, this is an opportunity for a champagne heads-up to the Colleagues involved with that deviously bovine mission sending students to videotape a Colleague surreptitiously in his classroom and recruit other students to join THAT complaint. Let’s not forget – I will not let you – the truly shabby prevaricating and dissembling about Media 386 not being a legit journalism ethics class. Truly bovine. There’s more, of course, much more, but too much for this pithy champagne alert.
He-Who-Was-@-The-Reins of the 15-year raunch & his train wreck supporters will be available for sagacious counseling and wisdom as the barnacles come home to roost? He-Who-Was_@ expects to slither into obscurity? It should be a hole deeper than the abyss of 15 years in the making. Colleagues ready to fall on their swords, sabers, pickaxes and those ready to put their big feet in their big mouths should take notice.
OMG. I used words like,= swords, sabers and pickaxes! Already I can imagine a ping from John T. Rose, head of the Hunter College Violence Prevention Committee, Dean for Diversity & Compliance, and the first dean in memory hit with an ethics complaint.
GM
P.S. I have to include this recollection for contextual reasons. There she was, former Dean Judith Friedlander inquiring, via email, about a contentious moment in the department.
He-Who-Was-@: “Gregg doesn’t do what his Colleagues want him to do,” his explanation for the contentiousness and a big mess in the making (not of my doing then, it was erstwhile Colleague Peter Parisi and a cover-up was in the making).
Gregg: “Gregg doesn’t do what his colleagues want him to do because they engage in immoral, amoral and illegal activities.”
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