The Forum confirms the rumor that Dean Fid Castro is leaving this summer.
I said pretty much everything I had to say about him in the post I wrote calling for him to be fired earlier last year, except this: "Good riddance." (It was the most commented upon post in Forum history, I believe and past Forum editor and abuser Michael Wilner, I'm told, deleted it for precisely that reason.)
Like all but a few administrators at Claremont -- Dean Huang being the exception that proves the rule -- he was a bully and a thug. He seldom if ever had students' best interests at heart, such as when he told David Daleiden CMC '10 during his ordeal at Pomona that
I said pretty much everything I had to say about him in the post I wrote calling for him to be fired earlier last year, except this: "Good riddance." (It was the most commented upon post in Forum history, I believe and past Forum editor and abuser Michael Wilner, I'm told, deleted it for precisely that reason.)
Like all but a few administrators at Claremont -- Dean Huang being the exception that proves the rule -- he was a bully and a thug. He seldom if ever had students' best interests at heart, such as when he told David Daleiden CMC '10 during his ordeal at Pomona that
"You have no right to be on Pomona's campus. You have no more right to walk across Pomona's campus than you do to walk through someone's living room. You have no contractual agreement with Pomona college; you are not a student at Pomona; you have no more rights at Pomona than an individual walking his dog down the street."
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He never really said those things to Dave, did he!? Not only is it rude, it is factually inaccurate and a misstatement of his rights.
So he will be leaving his professional peers (CMC admin) to join his intellectual peers (4th graders).
Good riddance is right. Always a menacing presence towards students but for some reason thought he could get away with anything because of his "cool" nickname: Fid. Can anyone think of another person who actually used their college nickname (yes he was only dubbed "Fid" starting in his college days) in a professional setting?
Hopefully this cretin never sets foot on campus again.
--Alum
haha the wilner obsession stays strong
Why are we constantly subjected to "faculty" evaluations at the end of every semester but we never get to evaluate the deans/president/staff/campus security? Castro would have been laid off a long time ago, as would Coach Candaele, if Claremont Mckenna truly cared about student-faculty evaluations.
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