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2026-04-29 00:51 UTC
@JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com I loved Neil, got along with Mark just fine, and respected Steve but we had some conflicts. Having all those mustache/beardo men on my committee about singular they pronouns was wild. I also had a "minor" in creative writing and was lucky enough to take a class with David Foster Wallace who taught for a semester at Amherst (where he had graduated from a few years earlier iirc). Hampshire worked out for me (in a way high school never did), but it was a crapshoot if it would.
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@JoshuaACNewman@xeno.glyphpress.com 2026-04-29 01:19
@jessamyn@glammr.us Weisler is a bit of a dick. Sometimes a lot of a bit. He was one of my first professors there, and he was surprisingly averse to creative solutions from firstyears — solutions he embraced a year later without credit. As Dean of CCS, he did some real harm to the pedagogy of the school before unceremoniously disappearing.