Loose use of Ivy League labels is a strange and telling American habit.
a version of this article appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer – April 9, 2010
A couple of months ago Amy Bishop, an assistant professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville allegedly opened fire on her colleagues and killed three of them in the middle of a department meeting. The event was reported extensively in the press. I recently happened upon a mention of the case and was surprised and disappointed to see her referred to, yet again, as a “Harvard-educated biologist.”