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"a standard which may be irrelevant in this case"
Hmmmm?
How irrelevant is it that the guy pulled a con job and lied about being an American Indian ..??
How irrelevant is it that the guy pulled a con job and lied about being in Vietnam ..??
The idea of tenure was that to foster intellectual debates without the threat of termination due to internal political pressures, professors would be given a promise not to be terminated for any reason other than a truly harmful act against the university.
The problem is that there is no debate within universities today. They have progressed from colleges of colleagues to profit centers without care of any level of education. It is all about grants and tuition, not education and the advancement of the arts and sciences.