Wednesday, May 4, 2011
So Long Dean Castro: You Won't Be Missed Here
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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