{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","altText":"f-BhOucBuv2x8ymF","alternateName":"f-BhOucBuv2x8ymF.mp4","caption":"","contentUrl":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/464/raw","datePublished":"2026-10-17T01:48:59+00:00","description":"","encodingFormat":"video/mp4","identifier":"464","isAccessibleForFree":true,"machineReadable":{"json":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/464/index.json","markdown":"https://lucycraig.blog/media/464/index.md"},"name":"f-BhOucBuv2x8ymF","ocrStatus":"not_applicable","ocrText":"","text":"[00:00] Could you give us sort of a rundown about how things are going in there?\n[00:08] That's a fair question.\n[00:10] I think the response I've come away from there with is that this institution is split in significant ways.\n[00:19] Obviously there is a huge amount of intensity around this issue,\n[00:25] but I would have to say that the most significant split that emerged for me\n[00:31] was between the humanities and the sciences.\n[00:35] Almost overwhelmingly, the sciences are playing rhetorical games.\n[00:43] They're saying things like, we need more information.\n[00:46] And as the folks in the humanities have repeatedly made clear\n[00:50] that the statistics are horrendous and they're unsustainable\n[00:55] and this is not enough.\n[00:57] So it seems to me that this is an institution\n[01:00] And the divides are almost strictly now around disciplinarity and it's disappointing to say,\n[01:11] but the scientists don't seem to, from what I heard in there, they're completely unable\n[01:17] to prioritize the students, the sense of outrage and violence they pay lip service\n[01:22] system, but the real concern about the institution, about its future direction, and about the\n[01:30] livability of life here for faculty who oppose this kind of behavior, the postponement of\n[01:39] issues around the Greek life, I'm going to say this again, I shoulda told my students,\n[01:45] the Greeks neither needed nor had a Greek system, and if they're so serious about\n[01:50] Then I'd like to play soft with these and walk around in the toga and poke them in the chest and ask\n[01:56] What's the meaning of life?\n[01:59] But as portable as I'm going to get folks. 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