January 7, 2022

Outcry at UNCA against the wearing of masks. As in times past, the outcry comes from Atmospheric Sciences, always the redneck element of the university. Most of my time there they spent shouting against the Humanities, which were unnecessary if all you were going to do was follow the weather. They shut up about that publically but continued to sow resentment among their majors. Now their chair declares all measures against infection, including masks, a delusion not only vain but un-American, robbing the individual of choice. All curiously unscientific for a program allegedly within the sciences. AS shares with Women’s and Gender studies the distinction of being majors that do their students more harm than good, from which they are likelier to emerge stupider than they went in. 

Late afternoon spent with A at my black table over wine, catching up on the gossip from the university. I know a great deal about people I will never meet.