Random Analogies
"Mr. Burggren, now at the University of North Texas, maintains that no one was out to get Ms. McClure. "There were lots of checks and balances in place," he recalls, noting that reviews took place at the departmental, college, provost, and presidential levels. "While there were people in the department who did not like Marcie personally, at no time was I aware, as interim dean, of any attempt to subvert the process to deny her tenure and promotion. I saw a personnel committee trying to document the undocumentable. Collegiality is like beauty -- you know it when you see it. You can't write it down."
"Stress relief is like turning open a small valve to let out emotions that are piling up. If you hadn't done that, you could have found yourself all tied up with angry and frustrated feelings inside of you that will explode sometime. You can afford to live without that, and you know it. "
"The layers of the earth are like a peanut M&M. There is a thin crust that can change, a melting middle layer and a hard center core with a inner layer and this outer layer just like a peanut.
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