[samtheman]

“Professor Smith is a teacher and research of high merit who, on that basis, earned a tenured faculty position at UC Riverside,” the school said in a statement given to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “The University of California is precluded by law from considering an individual’s ethnicity in any hiring or advancement decisions.”

Are they precluded by law in considering whether a liar has merit?

[Bigg Red]

“Professor Smith is a teacher and research of high merit....

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What? She’s a research?

Apparently, the spokesman at this institution of higher learning has some language deficiencies.