Re: Phony U.

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It just seems like such a sorry expenditure of time and effort in order to accomplish something mean-spirited.

Hard to come up with a more pithy description of modern Republicanism.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 02- 4-19 10:17 AM
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According to prosecutors, students were well aware that the school was a fraud. They allegedly chose to enroll anyway, because doing so would allow them to remain in the country on F-1 nonimmigrant visas, which allow foreign citizens to temporarily reside in the United States while studying at accredited academic institutions.

But it wouldn't, because it's not accredited, surely.


Posted by: Ginger Yellow | Link to this comment | 02- 4-19 10:26 AM
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Suck up, punch down. The defining mantra of American law enforcement. This is just a minor corollary.


Posted by: Chetan Murthy | Link to this comment | 02- 4-19 10:43 AM
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3: Is there a reason they eschew the more traditional "Kiss up, kick down"?


Posted by: AcademicLurker | Link to this comment | 02- 4-19 10:47 AM
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Can University of Maine at Farmington sue? If they admit many international students, this has to hurt them.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 02- 4-19 12:11 PM
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4 - In a conversation with a colleague, I recently described a co-worker as having this attitude. She had never heard the expression before and thought it was clever. I am such a wit.

(My exact comment was: "He's a real kiss-up, kick-down kinda guy, and it took him awhile to realize that I am up.")


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 02- 4-19 12:22 PM
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6.1 I've taught quite a few cow-orkers here that expression and get a similar reaction almost every time.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 02- 4-19 1:28 PM
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