“We need to make this house more secure,” N frets. “These huge picture windows, these flimsy locks – anybody can get inside!”
“This is a very low-crime area,” I respond. “Why are you so worried?”
“Most instances of violent crime are perpetrated by people we know and not by random strangers.”
“But we don’t know any dangerous people.”
“Are you forgetting where you work? After your stories of what goes on in academic departments, I’d be less worried if you worked at a jail,” N exclaims, and I can’t really object.
Here is the problem: exploiting adjuncts is obviously wrong. But having tenured professors do nothing but teach 2-3 sections of Spanish 101 in a semester isn’t good either. They go nuts with boredom and make people want to turn their houses into fortresses.
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