nepotism
(n.), nepotic, nepotistic, nepotistical (adj.),
nepotist
(n.)
I’ve
learned from http://portal.connect.znanost.org
that Croatian academician Vladimir Paar was rumored to have
influenced the hiring procedure at the Department of Physics of
the University of Zagreb, in favor of his son Nils. How dare
"they" do this? And I don’t question how dare they if
it is not true, I ask how dare they if it is true. Doesn’t
everyone understand the father-academician responsibilities, all
his efforts to promote his son’s faculties? For instance, can
anyone image how hard it was to name his son as Nils, almost a
Serbian name, instead of Niels? Then comes the iconolatrous
responsibility: Niels Bohr grew up in a family atmosphere most
favorable to the development of his genius and he carried out his
first and gold medal winning research in his father’s
laboratory.
Moreover,
a father’s academic responsibilities are a tradition in Paar
family. As the story goes, when Vladimir was a freshman, his
father came to the Department of Physics to contest his son’s
grade on one particular exam: Vladimir got ‘very good’(4), not
‘excellent’ (5).
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