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Setting the professorial bar low

The next time your law students complain that you or one of your colleagues is just mailing it in, tell them this story about former University of Tennessee law professor and dean John Randolph Neal:

Neal never spent much time on campus — often arriving late, if at all, for class, devoting class time to rambling lectures about current political issues rather than to the course subject matter, and giving all his law students a grade of 95 without reading their exams. The dean also complained about Neal’s “slovenly” dress, which later deteriorated into complete disregard for personal appearance and cleanliness.

I’d be very tempted to hire somebody like Neal, just to make the rest of us look good!