In 1957, Harvard University considered offering a faculty appointment to the novelist Vladimir Nabokov. In opposition, the eminent linguist Roman Jakobson asked his colleagues: "Gentlemen, even if one allows that he is an important writer, are we next to invite an elephant to be Professor of Zoology?"
This fall, students at Texas Tech University will have an opportunity to gawk at one of the most infamous elephants of the last Republican administration. On July 7, 2009, Kent Hance, a former GOP...
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