Why Indiana Jones Was Denied Tenure

Last updated on: October 22, 2012 at 6:10 pm by Joe Carter

Why Indiana Jones Was Denied Tenure 2012-10-22T18:10:24+00:00 Joe Carter

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Indiana Jones may be the greatest adventurer of all time, but as a professor he fails to impress the tenure committee at Marshall College:

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The committee concurred that Dr. Jones does seem to possess a nearly superhuman breadth of linguistic knowledge and an uncanny familiarity with the history and material culture of the occult. However, his understanding and practice of archaeology gave the committee the greatest cause for alarm. Criticisms of Dr. Jones ranged from “possessing a perceptible methodological deficiency” to “practicing archaeology with a complete lack of, disregard for, and colossal ignorance of current methodology, theory, and ethics” to “unabashed grave-robbing.” Given such appraisals, perhaps it isn’t surprising to learn that several Central and South American countries recently assembled to enact legislation aimed at permanently prohibiting his entry.

Moreover, no one on the committee can identify who or what instilled Dr. Jones with the belief that an archaeologist’s tool kit should consist solely of a bullwhip and a revolver.

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